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If we're being forward thinking, as water scarcity kicks in over the next several decades, maybe we'll start seeing farms paying closer to the true worth of wat
by BoorishBears 7y ago
If we're being forward thinking, as water scarcity kicks in over the next several decades, maybe we'll start seeing farms paying closer to the true worth of water.
You can bury your heads in the sand and downvote all you want, doesn't change reality my friends: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/federal-dollars-are-financing-the-water-crisis-in-the-west/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/federal-dollars-a...
- stevenwoo 7y agoI would hope for that future, but the electoral college and Senate rules/makeup favoring low population rural areas ( at federal level and most state senates) which turn out to be farm areas argues against farm subsidy trend overriding common sense water usage i.e. irrigating deserts to grow negative profit crops will continue until a prolonged disaster forces a reckoning.