Peter told me all of this as we drove through the valley in blazing heat. I asked what California did with all the millions upon millions of gallons of water that it shuffled around. He pointed outside. We were passing through a land of rice paddies. From one end of the horizon to the other were shallow rectangular pools with brilliant green strands of rice waving above. As I remember it, I could almost see the water steaming off the surface and flooding the sky. I was startled. They spent all that money to send all this water here from hundreds of miles away and then they just let it
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