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That's not why California gets more water. It has to do with how Water Rights in the Western US work [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation
by cjensen 10y ago
That's not why California gets more water. It has to do with how Water Rights in the Western US work [1].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_rights https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_righ...
- jessriedel 10y agoWell, sort of. The fact that CA has 14 times the population today is strongly related to the fact that it applied 14 times the water for productive use in the past.