It takes 100+ gallons of water to grow a pound of alfalfa. Alfalfa value top out at something like $0.50 a pound for the very best stuff. So your theory is wh

It takes 100+ gallons of water to grow a pound of alfalfa. Alfalfa value top out at something like $0.50 a pound for the very best stuff. So your theory is what, that if alfalfa farmers are willing to take no profits at all they could potentially bid water up to 0.5 cents per gallon? You are so incredibly grossly underestimating the cost and impracticality of bidding water up as high as you're imagining, it is mind boggling. They can easily bid water high enough to make it commercially useless for many industries, outbidding it from access to human consumption would require mind-boggling amounts of money.