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by wlesieutre 3464 days ago
California also has 14x the population of Nevada, so that's not too surprising
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cjensen 3464 days ago
That's not why California gets more water. It has to do with how Water Rights in the Western US work [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-appropriation_water_righ...

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jessriedel 3464 days ago
Well, sort of. The fact that CA has 14 times the population today is strongly related to the fact that it applied 14 times the water for productive use in the past.
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