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Address the root problem:

* Watering of non-native grass lawns should outright be banned

* Unsustainable agriculture, like growing baby spinach in the desert during winter, should be forced to pay unsubsidized rates for water, which should be transferred to the consumers of the product

* People living in the desert should have to pay unsubsidized rates for water for consumption

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What about things like Nestle siphoning off 58 million gallons a year from public land near LA for nearly no cost in order to bottle Arrowhead water?

I hadn't even heard of that, but that's ridiculous. Definite outright ban of water exports, no exceptions!

That's roughly enough water to grow 50-100 acres of alfalfa. There's a million acres of alfalfa grown in California. And more of other water intensive crops. Yeah it's shitty but it's not a root cause, it's a rounding error compared to agriculture.

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