[briga]

The situation is a bit more complex than you're making it out to be. Leaving aside the somewhat unique politics of Israel, it is a much smaller and more unified country than the US--the problems in the US are simply orders of magnitude bigger, even if you were to only consider California. If the solutions were in any way "easy" the drought problem would have been solved already. It isn't, and the percentage of the US with drought conditions isn't getting any smaller.

[spaetzleesser]

I don't like the excuses that things are harder to solve in the US because it's so big, diverse or whatever. If anything I think it should be easier in the US because it can solve a lot of problems without having to think about what the impact on neighboring countries is. As far as water goes, the US has pretty much all types of climate zones under its control so it could divert water or move agriculture to more favorable locations. A small country like Israel doesn't have access to water rich areas but the US has.

The only reason why the US can't solve problems is because it's dysfunctional and people prefer to fight each other and not accept facts they don't like.

[mrguyorama]

The reason the US can't solve problems is because half the country thinks government is inherently evil, so any problem that requires government to solve in an efficient or beneficial way is dead on arrival.

[newsclues]

If it was a scale instead of policy issue, there would be places in the US with effective policy, but because of scale not everywhere…

[spicyusername]

There are places in the U.S. with effective policy.

[newsclues]

I don’t think scale is preventing the effective policy from being implemented, but the political process that selects the wrong policy.