[thejynxed]

The farming industry in California would be non-existent without constant subsidizing both of the crops and the extraordinarily wasteful and expensive importing of water from numerous other states to prevent the farmland that was originally desert from reverting back to it's natural state.

[refurb]

Importing of water from other states? Most of that is just diversion of naturally occurring water streams to where it’s needed.

“Importing” is an odd way to put it.