Timothy Egan, writing for the New York Times:
What California still has, in great supply, is ingenuity. Three years ago, Mitt Romney compared the state to bankrupt Greece. It was laughed at and written off by conservative pundits. California now has a budget surplus and led the nation in job growth last year — far outpacing Texas.
Mitt Romney was full of it. Hold the presses.
Kidding aside, the fact that agriculture is 2% of the state economy, but uses 80% of the water means that the outcome of a prolonged drought is pretty clear.
Will urban users will be asked to cut back? Sure. But eventually there won’t be much left to cut back and the agriculture industry will need to take a long hard look at cherished beliefs.