evnow
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KarenRei said:Eh, what'll happen is that agriculture fed by the Colorado River will start getting pushed out of business. Farmers can't afford to pay nearly as much for water as people can pay for water for their homes. If it gets bad enough, you'll see desalination plants in California and an adjustment of the Colorado River Compact, with the upper states helping pay the cost in exchange for more of the river's water.
All this is possible in a growing economy - when fossil fuel gets expensive and scarce - these things become prohibitively expensive (both energy & costwise). This is not a problem to be solved - it is a predicament.