Title kind of misses the point and triggers an odd/uninformed conversation about trade offs. Ie read the article. This is not good, but the drying is a result o

Title kind of misses the point and triggers an odd/uninformed conversation about trade offs. Ie read the article. This is not good, but the drying is a result of a conscious choice by water management to prioritize away from irrigation. “Even as the river’s surface flows dry, the ditches are drying too. Irrigators have been warned that absent rain, there will be very little to water their land very soon. South Valley horse owners (the biggest consumers of irrigated stuff around here – the horses, I mean) will be buying hay. It’s a very dry year, the agony of climate change dumped atop some water management chaos.”