[geeteeohguy]

California's Central Valley provides a huge amount of produce for the country...up to 75% of it. It provides over 90% of the almonds and pecans. Legislation from the current government has been dumping water out to sea to preserve a non native species of smelt, to appease the environmentalists. There has been a water shortage here for several years due to this. Farmland in the west valley has been destroyed/dried up for the past 4 years, thanks to Feinstein, Boxer, and Costa. It's complicated. Southern Ca is basically a desert, but has been irrigated for well over 100 years, with the drying up of Owens Lake, the building of the aqueduct in 1913, etc. Bottom line is, this is everybody's problem, and lack of rain here and no snowpack is looking very grim indeed. So, it's easy to say that we are a desert and will get what we deserve, but the entire country will suffer with lack of produce/food and steep price hikes on what little is available. Food for thought!