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If you have travelled on I5 and have seen all the farm owners with their placards, you will soon realize their water rights are iron clad - they are a vote bank
by innagadadavida 4y ago
If you have travelled on I5 and have seen all the farm owners with their placards, you will soon realize their water rights are iron clad - they are a vote bank and their economic output is significant.
So, in conclusion, CA will:
1. Let the ground water deplete and ground sink
2. Bring in migrant workers from outside / illegally to work the lands
3. Take away water from your showers and toilets
But they will never move these industries out of Central Valley. Now I need to find a public ledger to record my predictions.
- sparker72678 4y agoYou’re not wrong (Drive the 99, it’s ever starker), but most of these people aren’t living just to spite others. Without positive incentives to get these people to take their livelihoods elsewhere (or find new livelihoods), why are they going to be enthusiastic about being encouraged out? We need carrots, not just sticks.
- ncmncm 4y agoThey don't have many votes. Furthermore, their share of the California economy is astonishingly tiny. So it should be very fixable. Most of the US vegetable crop is grown in California, but there is practically no value in growing other things there. Most of the alfalfa is exported to feed to foreign animals. In effect we are donating water to those countries.