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Wait wait wait, wouldn't that incentivize them overusing water in the hopes that they get a payout for reducing? Like how the hell is that actually going to achieve the result without massive amounts of fuckery?
How about the farmers pay back the trillion$ taxpayers spent destroying the Colorado basin to irrigate their desert crop lands?
And they can pay to now take the dams down, another $1T to restore the Colorado flow.
With global warming the Colorado flow is going to keep going down and there is none left for welfare ag or real estate developers fevered desert dreams.
OK, OK, they don't have to pay anything back or pay to fix the problem they profited from for decades but they don't get any more tax payer money.
Water's not there anymore.  Time for the farmers to move on and find other work. >

Because it's drying up to beyond horrifying levels and we're killing the planet. Maybe we should also re-examine the rest of what we're doing >

Eating is in a direct correlation with farming, so if we just eat less, we can need less farmland. >

Or eat differently.