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It appears obvious USA government Illuminati have known for at least 4 decades how to solve California water shortage...?

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... why have they not done so?

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  • 5 years ago

    We decided back in the 30s, when there were about 8 million people in the state, to lock down a plan where farmers would get 3/4 of the water. After all these years, we have 40 million people, chronic water shortages, and we're growing the most water-intensive crops there are--cotton and rice.

    We use water shortages today to slow/limit growth. If we had 20% more water, within 2 or 3 years developers would build 20% more houses and condos, and we'd be right back where we started, except roads, schools, etc. would be more crowded, police and fire departments would be more underfunded, etc.

  • 5 years ago

    1. Perhaps it's not obvious to everyone, as it appears to be to you.

    2. Unless you're being satirical, the use of the title "Illuminati" appears to reveal your paranoiac tendencies and a shaky grasp of reality.

    3. The means of solving the California water shortage has been known to all Californians for far longer than 4 decades.

    4. They haven't done it because the farm lobby is a powerful one. They don't want to give up their historical water rights, they don't want to grow more water-efficient crops over their high-revenue producing crops and they don't want to restructure or modernize and start using drip irrigation instead of sprinkler irrigation. The government of California loves the revenue brought in by being the nation's Bread-Basket, and doesn't want to face the political fallout of trying to face down the Big Agriculture operations.

    Clearer now? Or perhaps your question wasn't really a question at all, but instead a disingenuous attempt to give us your opinion, disguised as a question? I'm not really certain, even though it "appears obvious" that it was.

  • 5 years ago

    The sole apparent answer to me is Agenda 21, they do not care if all die of thirst there, in fact would welcome it. And they like the money making and costly alternatives.

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