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Originally Posted by Bladewire
Water rights is THE problem. You can't talk about water conservation without first adressing water/land rights.
Water rights reform means disenfranchising land owners and reappropriating billions in wealth of purchased, and passed down, water rights.
After that, conservation can be effectively tackled.
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we're debating 2 different things. i'm saying that the typical california resident, you, me, rochard, should not have been impacted by the drought if california officials had managed the drought better.
you're arguing that most all our water goes to agriculture and that's where conservation needs to happen.
these views don't disagree.
I am generally familiar with ag water rights including the grandfathered in rights and all the shenanigans that you're referring to.
if you want to speak just to that, and not my point that you counter-pointed, i'm cool with that, but i don't necessarily agree with you there either, that the issue is water rights.
from my understanding of what i've read, heard, discussed, seen, et al, the problem is irrigation infrastructure and management. things like smart irrigation scheduling is not mandated. deficit irrigation on drought-tolerant seasonal crops, and most importantly, requiring drip and sprinkler technology be embraced to really manage ag water properly.
that can all be legislated and should have been over the last 40+ years. along with water storage and maintained and upgraded water infrastructure. none of that would have been roadblocked by water rights.