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You might be assuming water rights are easy to get.

• sjg007 8y ago
  Read up on the history of the west.. it's all about water rights. Yuma exists and that's where they grow lettuce. I don't understand what you mean by water rights being easy to get? These farmers, in some cases, have (state) constitutional rights to water.
  • nixpulvis 8y ago
    https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/water_rights_process.html https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/water_... I think reading this gives a pretty good picture of the situation from a bureaucratic point of view.
    • sjg007 8y ago
      Yuma is in Arizona dude. The specifics of water rights between States was codified by Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact