Yes, agriculture uses most of the water, but what are you going to eat? Have you not read that severe food shortages are coming? Very few people are going to be happy eating bugs and drinking soylent while living in a pod in the metaverse.
Point is, we probably can reevaluate how much we “need” this crops.
Of the necessary food, could we, possibly, get it from somewhere else? Somewhere with more water?
-california grows food -americans need food to eat -therefoe, there should be absolutely no restrictions whatsoever on agriculture, and farmers should be able to use as much water and grown in the most wasteful ways possible, because after all we need food
there's tons of crops in drought stricken California that are grown relatively efficiently. there's tons more where football fields of water are used to grow calorie empty foods in horribly inefficient ways
farmers have such a lock over the feeble minded such as yourself that any blame they share over instances of wasteful water use is deflected because "hey we're growing food here and you need to eat"
the state could issue subsidies for farmers to upgrade to lower impact irrigation systems. for other types of crops, their water usage is way too high compared to their caloric yield, and these crops should no longer be grown. our consumerist society doesn't justify growing literally whatever we want wherever we want, regardless of the externalities of water usage