"No, Farmers Don’t Use 80 Percent of California’s Water"
April 20, 2015
Since I've seen the "80 percent" figure used in a number of places, this piece is timely and useful.
To be clear, whatever the figure, California farmers are using too much water, water whose costs exceed their benefits. But that is because of government subsidies and those subsidies are obtained partly through the farmers' political clout. It's another example of how government often actually works, as opposed to the Liberals' fantasy of how it always works.