While this is not great at all, it will mainly impact agriculture. Coastal cities, where a majority of the population lives and where most economic value is cre

While this is not great at all, it will mainly impact agriculture. Coastal cities, where a majority of the population lives and where most economic value is created will always have the option to desalinize seawater, which currently costs ~ $4/(1000 gal) in the town where I’m living [1]. It also doesn’t mean that people won’t have anything to eat because agriculture fails completely. It will mostly mean that extremely water hungry produce like almonds, dates etc will have to be replaced by crops that only use a fraction of water. It’s disappointing that there isn’t more regulation to force this transition (and more general common sense practices like forcing farmers to install water meters). People being told to not water their lawns and installing low flow shower heads is really irrelevant in the grand scheme of things (but might be necessary in a local water shortage). [1] https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/pw/resources/system/sources/desalination/default.asp https://www.santabarbaraca.gov/gov/depts/pw/resources/system...