Will We Have to Pump the Great Lakes to California to Feed the Nation?

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16. It would cost less money and use less energy to desalinate water in California...

... than it would to transport fresh water from the Great Lakes to California.

In any case, the most water intensive "crop" in California is dairy cows, many of them raised in quite appalling conditions.

California would have plenty of water if we quit subsidizing industries that do not make the world a better place and we quit farming land that should never have been farmed.

Cheap gallon jugs of milk and cheap plastic-wrapped ground beef don't generally come from happy cows grazing on green grass hillsides.