Yep, and as much as I love the old orchards they are way more water intensive than the modern style, and unfortunately you can’t rip up irrigation once the trees are in. So, in a way, the first step to getting betting water use is tearing all this shit out.

All that aside, motherfucking capitalism decides to do it at a time when people might be needing food and jobs. Because it sucks at remembering the human angle.

Agreed. Even with the newer drip irrigation systems that use less water, there is still not reliably enough water to support the kinds of farming they have