What is the goal of internalizing it? What is the goal of personal responsibility here? There are fantastically profitable cash crops that the Central Valley

What is the goal of internalizing it? What is the goal of personal responsibility here? There are fantastically profitable cash crops that the Central Valley is rapidly desertifying itself to produce, because that is what the regulatory framework incentivizes. They will do this regardless of whether half of LA feels shame about how long they spend in the shower. These things are ridiculous debacles that connect the well-meaning with the entrenched money to completely avoid the real issues. They're an attempt to get some people who don't use much water to point the finger at other people who don't use much water, and have a bitter culture war about it, and distract from the few people using most of the water. Water could and should be put into easy sustainability range by pricing it in accordance with how bad the local situation (reservoirs or water tables) has gotten. Instead it's doled out as a strange mix of feudal fiefdom and public service. And that includes pumping groundwater - which seems to be completely unregulated and unmonitored at present. California's problem is that it hasn't brought itself to manage water effectively, and it has erected obstacles to doing so during eras when water was neither heavily used nor well-understood. https://www.c-win.org/water-rights-primer.html https://www.c-win.org/water-rights-primer.html