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Originally Posted by bizaro86
California still seems to have enough water to irrigate alfalfa and export it. That's a pretty low value use of water, so if they're still doing that they have levers they haven't needed yet.
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Sure, they're irrigating crops—five hundred kilometres north of LA. That's how far the tentacles of LA reach to get drinking water. Imagine if Calgary got its water from Slave Lake, or Lake Okanagan; that's how ridiculously far LA goes to get drinking water.
Bitching about farmers in California would be like us drawing water from the Okanagan Valley and saying "well they have enough water out there to still be growing squash and eggplant, so there are levers we haven't used yet".