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Originally Posted by Adam_L
What I dislike are the politics that exist county to county that conflict with each other , taxes , cost of living , high production of alcohol (wine and beer mainly) / and consumption . If you're a agriculture based business ( using natural resources like water), it seems like they are given free reign to use such resources without the need / thought of regulating/checking their consumption and how their consumption affects the local population ( like … well home owners still need water to take showers/cook/etc).
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That dates back to the gold rush in the 1840s. It's called prior appropriation doctrine (as opposed to riparian doctrine) and grew out of people fighting over water for gold mining. California developed it, but eighteen states have adopted it. So it's only a political issue when people try to get it changed, and you're not unique in having the problem.