Sure, but if we are talking about "low hanging fruit" -- putting some restrictions or adjusting the costs of water use for agriculture would have a massive outs

Sure, but if we are talking about "low hanging fruit" -- putting some restrictions or adjusting the costs of water use for agriculture would have a massive outsized effect on water tables. Yet we keep trying to nip at the edges on super small issues like...water for a lawn There is already some math in the thread regarding how its almost 2 magnitudes more of water use for a cow for a month over a lawn for a year