“California has many open canals and primitive irrigation systems. It does not recycle wastewater. And it enjoys the luxury of directing resources to artificially maintain the environment for the delta smelt sardine.

There is no real serious water crisis in California. What there is, is a left-wing environmentalist hysteria of forbidding lawn irrigation and swimming pools.”

It’s really funny, they actually grow rice in California, RICE! The most water intense crop on the planet, you need like 400 gallons of water for every pound of rice produced!

But why not, at .5 cents (subsidized) per gallon water is still basically free, talk about market distortion… and again J:

“We don’t grow rice (in Israel), although there are technologies that would allow to grow it with not much water. We grow specialty crops like flowers in winter, and buy commodities in the world market.”

Or like the Peggy Noonan quote goes: “Put a federal agency in charge of the Sahara Desert and it would run out of sand.”