In 1729, British satirist Jonathan Swift anonymously wrote A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of the Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public. Swift mockingly suggested that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food for the English gentry. Flash forward to Southern California in 2009 and Swift's satiric book might be re-titled something like: A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of the Poor People and Farmers of Central and Southern California from Being an Unsustainable Water Burden...