We don't want your shitty alfalfa in our states either. California and the Southwest aren't the only places with water problems. You lot have just depleted your

We don't want your shitty alfalfa in our states either. California and the Southwest aren't the only places with water problems. You lot have just depleted yours faster than everywhere else. It'll take decades to build your aquifers back up to nice levels. All of those planned foundries everyone on this site has been excited about in Arizona? Not enough water. Ever hear of Flint, Michigan? Water infrastructure is expensive, and people in this country are allergic to taxes. The Ogalalla aquifer is being depleted, and most people depending on it probably don't know it exists or how to say it. Salt Lake City is drying up, and the little water left there is all that's standing between a few million people and arsenic dust and other toxic, tiny shit. More people to move, and more houses lost early to the changing environment. California is burning, sinking, drying up, and unaffordable. Your rivers are becoming creeks. Lakes dry up. Reservoirs drain to thirsty farms and cities. Water is bottled and sold from California to places with plenty of it. Alfalfa, almonds, and unauthorized weed farms are drinking up most of your water that isn't immediately drained into the ocean. Desalination plants aren't being built in time and have their attendant costs and ecological considerations. Snowmelt is reduced as snowcaps disappear due to global warming. Aquifers are drained after a century of drilling and wells and byzantine water rights and legal doctrines not updated much in a century. The aquifers are so drained that the ground is sinking above the empty cavities of the depleted aquifers. Wild salmon in California will most likely die out. The seas are rising and threatening to swallow up "The Valley" and introduce once-freshwater ecosystems to saltwater. Single-family zoning covers the majority of California. Millions of economic and climate refugees are going to be playing ping pong across the US trying to find that affordable, safe, pleasant life in another state in the American pipe dream, thereby straining the barely-there infrastructure of low tax, reduced government red states and causing local spikes in prices and forcing poor people further and further out. Good luck. . . There's so much work to be done, and I feel tired thinking about it. But, it needs to be done.