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California topped off all of their reservoirs in 2019. These systems of dams are designed to sustain california for five years, according to local farmers that i’ve talked to. However the water supply is being diverted into the ocean now because of insane environmental laws.

A farmer in california pays more for water than labor, taxes or anything else.



Gonna need some citations on that one big hoss. Most of the talk out of California lately is farmers in an arms race to drill the deepest well, because they're planting water-hungry crops like almonds like fiends (good profit margins so fuck the water table).



> diverted into the ocean now because of insane environmental laws

Is that from the Resnick [0] talking points memo? The Resnicks should grow their almonds back in the Middle East where they belong instead of in the CA desert.

[0]https://www.forbes.com/profile/stewart-lynda-resnick/?sh=274...


2019, while being a wet year, did not come close to the monumental claim of "topping off all their reservoirs". Got anything to back that up?

As for mandated minimum flow levels, would you rather the river courses run dry?


as they should? water where water isn't naturally should be very expensive from an environmental footprint. Externalities and all that


Do you get your news by reading signs along 99?




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