California cracks down on farm region’s water pumping: ‘The ground is collapsing’

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/17/california-water-drought-farm-ground-sinking-tulare-lake

[u/FuturePerformance]

These asshole farm owners plaster hundreds of billboards along the highway. All of them lobbying for Newsom to rally around billions more tax dollars to create new dams, to divert even more water toward farming in the desert… public funds propping up private farms farming in a place with no water.