This is what one might have thought.
If not now, then under the TPP corporations would have the right to sue the state for non-compliance with agreements.
California may be unfit for human habitation soon, but at least Big Oil and Big Ag will have extracted their profits.
Drought-Stricken
California Exempts Big Oil and Big Ag from Mandatory Restrictions
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April, 2015
The
April 1 snowpack assessment in California, which set
an all-time record for lowest snowpack levels in the
state’s history, finally spurred Governor Brown’s office to
issue an executive order to residents and non-agricultural businesses
to cut water use by 25 percent in the first mandatory statewide
reduction in the state’s history.
But
some groups have been exempted from the water restrictions,
specifically big agriculture, which uses about
80 percent of California’s water, and oil companies. Democracy
Now! discussed on
their show today the new
mandates and the implications of exempting some of the biggest water
users in the state.
Shaikh and fellow reporter, Amy Goodman, then turn to Mark Hertsgaard, author of a new book, Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, and whose latest story is “How Growers Gamed California’s Drought.” Hertsgaard, an expert on big agriculture and the drought in California, discusses how the price of water is far too low and how we’re still wasting far too much water. “If we priced [water] properly, which means a little bit higher, there’s enormous strides California could be taking with water efficiency,” says Hertsgaard. “We could essentially wipe out the effects of the drought.”
But right now we have billionaire farmers like Stewart Resnick bragging about record profits and record production in water-intensive crops like pistachios, almonds and alfalfa, while poorer communities where farmworkers live “don’t have water coming out of their taps anymore,” says Hertsgaard.
Watch the full clip here:
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