We seriously need to rethink agriculture in the West. California produces a lot of food for the country and we use 80% of our water to do it, but it's also onl

We seriously need to rethink agriculture in the West. California produces a lot of food for the country and we use 80% of our water to do it, but it's also only 3% of our economy. The other 97% of the economy needs water too, in part to feed and bathe the people who make that part of the economy go. It seems like it would be wise for California to pay farmers not to use water and pay farm workers who are unemployed since we have plenty of money and not a lot of water. This would mean that farmers would not go broke, and they would be motivated to find ways to use less water, or charge more for their product, or both. Which would then shift the growing of those things to places where they have water and can build massive greenhouses, which would be supported by the higher prices. Or at the very least charge farmers the same price for water as the rest of us! In Santa Clara County (aka Silicon Valley), an acre-foot of water costs a farmer $36.85 and everyone else pays $1,724.00! If you go a litter farther south, where the majority of land use is still farming, it's still $36.85 for farmers and $513 for everyone else!