[frmersdog]

Potential hiccup: isn't California in a water crisis? So, upstream of all of this is something like, "Dealing with foreign land-owners who are buying up all the water rights on the West Coast in order to irrigate their animal feed alfalfa farms (say that 5 times fast)." Your fire management issue just became an international concern.

[tekknik]

Not a hiccup. Why do we care if foreign farmers can feed their animals? We need to focus on us first. They shouldn’t even be able to buy property here until they’re a citizen.

[frmersdog]

Hi, yes, it's the Arabians and the Chinese. We let one get away with a massive terrorist attack and the other is a nuclear power who we're trying not to go to war with. Remember, our entry into the Pacific Theater of WWII was predicated on a trade embargo.

...But in general, I do agree that we shouldn't be selling out American resources for foreign countries at our loss.

[derwiki]

I’d imagine we don’t need desalinated water to fight fires, but I’m def not an expert in this.

[jcgl]

Pretty sure you don’t want to go spraying salt everywhere. Ecologically bad.