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Not true. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/20/east-porterville-california-drought-bottled-water-showers-toilets https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/

• jacobolus 10y ago
  You’re talking about a place that gets its drinking water from wells, rather than from state reservoirs. Notably, there wasn’t (and still isn’t, but it’s been improved a tiny bit) sufficient regulation about water pulled from the ground, so residential wells in small rural towns are in direct competition with neighboring farms which can pretty much pull as much water as they want, even if it makes nearby residents go thirsty. This is not a problem for the general CA water supply.
• birken 10y ago
  Touche. I should have stated that in areas where agriculture have raided groundwater supplies, which take much longer to refresh than reservoirs, residential water supplies may be at risk. Even still, people can generally afford whatever it costs for water to supply their towns. I doubt any towns will collapse because they don't have access to cheap water, whereas there are a lot of crops that do depend on that.