[danans]

> Oddly, California officials are trying to decide right now whether to save Lake Mead or the Salton Sea.

Not California officials.

It's the Imperial Irrigation District, which is the water utility for largely agricultural Imperial County, which is inland from San Diego. They grow a huge amount of produce there, so the water rights are primarily for farming, not for restoring the lake, which is fed by farming runoff.

So a better comparison is farming in the Imperial Valley vs Las Vegas.