Not just ag land, but the California Water Project and Aqueduct, which feeds both Los Angeles and SoCal agriculture. One of the major themes of Mark Reisner's

Not just ag land, but the California Water Project and Aqueduct, which feeds both Los Angeles and SoCal agriculture. One of the major themes of Mark Reisner's book A Dangerous Place, which explores the scenario of a major Hayward Fault earthquake (that's the fault running along the San Francisco Bay's eastern shoreline) would be massive levee failures in the California Delta, and the knock-on consequences of massive salt-water intrusion on not only the Delta but farming and southern California as well. <https://archive.org/details/dangerousplaceca00reis/page/176/mode/2up https://archive.org/details/dangerousplaceca00reis/page/176/...>