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RE: Adsactly Education - Colorado River
THE AGRICULTURAL LOBBY MUST BE CRUSHED. In California, farms use 80% of Colorado River water, yet account for only 2% of the state's economic output, including the alfalfa & almonds they export to China. Yet they are so powerful that politicians constantly bend over for them. Every day they're asking for new dams & diversions to be built with taxpayer money. They were the only group exempt from drought cutbacks. They've illegally drawn so much groundwater that many sections of land have collapsed. This industry doesn't give a damn about the environment, just their own profits.
Ahhhh. I grew up on a farm that became an irrigated farm in an endangered aquifer So I don't think the agricultural lobby needs to be crushed. I do think it needs to be 'part of' the negotiating process for the available water. The desert southwest, the drainage area of the Colorado, is highly productive farm ground, it feeds many millions of people. Agriculture needs to be represented.