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Population growth in Africa has approximately nothing to do with the problems facing the American West. The problem in America is due to ridiculous property- and ag-developer-friendly water policies that resulted in “water credits” being tossed around like candy and a ridiculous belief that places like Palm Springs are built on “prehistoric aquifers” that will “last centuries.”

Suburbanization is still in vogue in those parts.

The problems have only begun.