I know I'm sorta beating a dead horse here but, you know that around 5 years ago, we started sending 30% LESS water down south because of what happened to our chinook salmon fisheries. Central california is pissed! But what if we had sent that extra 30% this year? Does anyone realize how low the dammed up river systems are up here? You know, the lakes that get drained to fulfill the needs of a completely different region/regions? I just can't imagine if we HAD sent that extra 30% this last year,,,, crazy shit man.
Now, as much as we all need to help through conserving, pushing the ultra-liberals to allow desalination plants, smarter agriculture, and other things, to call out "hydro" growers is lame! But if the OP really thought your typical hydro grower used way more water than himself, he prob doesn't think it now, rite