it's your fault for eating Wrote:
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> WMAL. reporter failed to identify self.
> (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- Across the West, an
> historic drought — the worst in more than a
> century — has sparked a water crisis that for
> the first time has forced California officials to
> impose mandatory statewide water restrictions.
>
> “We need water,” Gov. Gerry Brown said
> Wednesday. “We’re gonna have to get water.”
>
> "Lawn sprinklers and car washes aren’t the only
> culprits though. Agriculture uses 80 percent of
> the state’s water."
>
> Homeowners and businesses (violators that are not
> democrats), face fines of up to $500 a day for
> improper water use
>
> (ah. we see the city takes the opportunity to
> oppress with fines)
It is the fault of governments that subsidize water consumption by farms. Try reading true conservatives instead of watching Fox News:
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In an America without the massive coercive power of the federal government, the population centers in the West would generally be near the water sources where irrigation and drinking water would be cheaper and easier to use. When powerful interest groups own land far away from water sources, on the other hand, there is no “solution” so impractical that billions of taxpayer dollars can’t make it happen. The politicians will simply see to it that the water is moved where the lobbyists tell them it should have been in the first place. The result is that farmers will grow water-thirsty crops in central Arizona and central California where water must be transported over mountains and across hundreds of miles of arid landscape.
http://mises.org/daily/6568/Water-Subsidies-and-Shortages-in-the-American-West