Right here in the good ole USA?
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015...dire-as-neighbors-steal-water-from-neighbors/
TULARE COUNTY (CBS13) — The drought devastation has gotten worse in Tulare County in the weeks since we examined the lack of water as part of our five-part drought series.
Conditions are desperate enough that neighbors are stealing water from each other.
But the Delta Smelt is protected so all is well.
“All in all, California farmers fallowed about 500,000 acres of land this year,” the Wall Street Journal reported in June 2014. “But here’s the thing: much of this land could have been productive had the state stored up more water from wet years and not flushed 800,000 acre-feet into the San Francisco Bay last winter and an additional 445,000 acre-feet this spring to safeguard the endangered delta smelt.”
“That’s enough for roughly three million households to live on and to irrigate 600,000 acres of land,” the WSJ reported.
http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015...dire-as-neighbors-steal-water-from-neighbors/
TULARE COUNTY (CBS13) — The drought devastation has gotten worse in Tulare County in the weeks since we examined the lack of water as part of our five-part drought series.
Conditions are desperate enough that neighbors are stealing water from each other.
But the Delta Smelt is protected so all is well.
“All in all, California farmers fallowed about 500,000 acres of land this year,” the Wall Street Journal reported in June 2014. “But here’s the thing: much of this land could have been productive had the state stored up more water from wet years and not flushed 800,000 acre-feet into the San Francisco Bay last winter and an additional 445,000 acre-feet this spring to safeguard the endangered delta smelt.”
“That’s enough for roughly three million households to live on and to irrigate 600,000 acres of land,” the WSJ reported.
