I linked this in another subthread but I think it's worth reposting here because "penny wise" is an extreme disservice. "Blame someone else" by itself is unlike

I linked this in another subthread but I think it's worth reposting here because "penny wise" is an extreme disservice. "Blame someone else" by itself is unlikely to solve problems quickly, and there's time-proven alternatives too. Also I don't want to know how much we'd have to spend to buy out even a quarter of the farms in the Central Valley. https://www.khou.com/article/news/houston-will-be-drinking-dallas-toilet-water-for-years-to-come/285-339809592 https://www.khou.com/article/news/houston-will-be-drinking-d... "We re handling right now about 135-140 million gallons [of raw sewage] per day, said Bill Tatum, manager of TRA Central Regional Wastewater System." "This city needs almost a half billion gallons of water a day during the peak usage of the summer months, said Alvin Wright, spokesman for the City of Houston Public Works and Engineering Department." That's a pretty big dent in the overall demand - though, amusingly, somewhat at risk because the cities in north Texas are going to start using more of their own sewage themselves. Between things like this and capturing more storm runoff there's a ton for California cities to do to make them less dependent on other geographical areas and phenomenons beyond just "make people farm less." And especially if the climate patterns shift, closing the loop is just as important as getting rid of upstream consumers. Water's a reusable resource, why are we still in the habit of polluting it and not cleaning up after ourselves?