NW-Bound
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But I thought a lot of these farmer had water rights, something they acquired decades ago in some cases.
So there could be some resentment because the farmers are guaranteed a certain amount of water or they're allowed to overpay the aquifers.
And they use way more than residential and they get to harvest some very lucrative crops.
Not these farmers in the Westlands District. As I mentioned, these orchards did not exist back in the early 80s. The US Bureau of Reclamation was in charge of drawing water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to distribute. The water was provided to the Westlands District under the term of "last in / first out". And so, these farmers were cut off first.
Perhaps these orchards should not be started in the first place. But like anything else in life, when things were going great and they had some rainy years, people did not believe that the good time would end at some point.
Just like our bull stock market till now...