[Finny]

And that is such a pisser about no water in the Valley. All that land should be, and could be (except for drought, but that's a different issue, really) irrigated. The San Joaquin Valley feeds people. It clothes people (or used to, when a lot of cotton was grown there, don't know if it still is). Agriculture is how we get the meat, dairy, and produce in our grocery stores.

Have you ever seen Mono Lake? I finally saw it for the first time last year. If I remember correctly, a lot of environmentalists are wailing because Mono Lake is that way because of water being diverted to irrigate crops.

Frankly, losing Mono Lake as the price of helping to nourish one of the richest and largest agricultural produce bowls in the world ... WOULD BE WORTH IT. Everything on this planet is temporary, and everything that happens on it is fleeting. We are along for the ride. Five hundred years in our scale is a nanosecond on the real geological scale.

Makes me sick to my stomach to see agriculture taking such a blow. Then again, a shocking number of them vote Democrat.

[FBD]

Good points. The water in the lake will come back. The farmland and the farmers might not, if run out of business due to lack of water.