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'Will California soon fill its prisons with "water criminals?" If a cop drives by a yard where two people are standing around, and one of them is smoking a joint while the other is watering his yard, guess which one will be arrested?
'Will California soon fill its prisons with "water criminals?" If a cop drives by a yard where two people are standing around, and one of them is smoking a joint while the other is watering his yard, guess which one will be arrested?
California is in a state of severe drought and you are more worried that people won't be able to water their lawn than that the state will potentially run out of water within a year?
I'm glad to see that he is ordering golf courses to reduce their water usage. The idea of golf courses in the desert is an obscene waste of a precious resource. Arizona and Nevada should follow suit.
80% of California's water goes to agriculture - much of it on cash crops for export, like alfalfa, almonds, pistachios - all of which are ridiculously thirsty crops for a desert.
Right-wing farmers have posted signs up and down I-5 blaming Democratic politicians for the state's water woes, with the tag line "Farmers Feed America." But these days, those whiny entitled welfare recipients aren't feeding America - they're feeding China. Or, in the case of alfalfa, Chinese cows.
Unfortunately, Jerry Brown - like every other politician in CA, of both parties - is terrified of the Big Ag lobby, even though agriculture represents less than 2% of the economy. So there are no restrictions being proposed for agriculture whatsoever. Us urban dwellers are being asked to take 2-minute showers while the Republican fat-cat farmers continue to guzzle their state-subsidized water and laugh at us all the way to the bank.
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