This article is awful. He ignores that Agriculture drills many wells and extracts water from rivers and streams - and that water is not metered and free. There was the recent article about Starbucks getting their bottled water for free from California wells. And when he praises the ability to buy/sell water he is praising the very system that allows farmers to take their free water and monetize it through bottled water sold throughout the USA. I could go on, but all you really need to do is drive through California and look at the miles and miles of rice fields - a full immersion crop. It is exported worldwide by the multi-billionaire "farmers".