Basically, it is the beginning of the end of cheap plentiful water in the western states. I’ve been waiting for this type of announcement to come and I am surprised it has taken so long to happen.
Farming in the desert is about to end. With decades-long drought with no end in sight, people will try short-term solutions like pumping ground water, but that “pool of water” is finite also.
Like all disasters, we are a reactive people and we need to have failure staring us in the face before we change our way of living.
