California’s water shortage is ensnaring everything from farming and fisheries to energy and international trade. And the issue is coming to a boil as the president signed an executive order this week to divert water to farm country while the state responded by suing to stop it.
The competition for a finite resource is intense. To divide the issue between providing food or protecting wildlife is to oversimplify it. Farmers get about 40% of those allocations while concerted efforts are now made to maintain river levels — all to preserve wildlife and to provide electric power. California’s water and energy needs are linked: as the need for one goes up, the demands on the other also rise…
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