My plan. Use the 40% water to raise crops to feed your family, workers and fellow farmers. Next sell the extra food at a loss to an out of state co-op you and other farmers set up. California gets no tax revenue since in California you lost money. In the other state the co-op made money. Let the state and population in California starve because after all we are saving the fish!
California water law is that 50% of.surface water flows are to be environmental flows. This is total flow.volume regardless of an extra wet year. There is a minimum flow where that 50%’can be larger than 50% of the flows present as the flows continue too decrease up to 100% environmental flows and zero diversions for human use. In California environmental flows are the most senior water rights then everything else. The only way to change what the Supreme Court’s already upheld in California is to get the legislature to change the law and get the governor to sign it out get a veto proof majority. That’s is end of story so set about getting the votes needed.