Our United State of Water
For Better and For Worse, Water Keeps California Together
Yes, we’re in a drought, but there’s still good reason to break out the sand bags: to protect ourselves against a flood of conventional media wisdom about California water.
As legislators and voters debate proposals for water infrastructure and bonds, TV stations and the L.A. Times have already declared that we’re in a “Water War.” Soon you will hear the quote, attributed to Mark Twain, that “whiskey is for drinking and water is fighting.” And you are probably reading, again and again, that water, as much as anything, divides California.
That is …
