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  The almonds pay for themselves in $ economic value per acre-ft of irrigation. It's the California corn, alfalfa, rice, safflower, sugar beet, and cotton that will be first to go.
context: Tl;dr: the Southwest is fucked, especially Arizona. >
  
  It's a desert, they don't need Kentucky bluegrass lawns, irrigated corn and alfalfa fields, dairy cows, bazillions of people that only come out at night. >
  
  
  It's a desert, they don't need Kentucky bluegrass lawns, irrigated corn and alfalfa fields, dairy cows, bazillions of people that only come out at night.
  
  Just getting rid of almonds in California would go a long way. Beyond that, we can import from areas better suited to produce those commodities.