Almond farmers are sucking water out of the Central Valley aquifers faster than it can be replaced, even in a rainy year. The problem is there's no limit on dri

Almond farmers are sucking water out of the Central Valley aquifers faster than it can be replaced, even in a rainy year. The problem is there's no limit on drilling and pumping. IIUC riparian rights are handled differently in the western US than they have been traditionally elsewhere, leading to a race to deplete the shared resource before it's all gone.