"He still doesn't want to believe that the ground is out of water"

[procon]

3. agribusiness wastes huge quantities of water

Around this California desert here, out of town growers come in for one season, lease massive tracks of land to farm using flood irrigation methods because it requires minimal expenses for labor and equipment. They use portable diesel powered water pumps mounted on trailers that are driven from field to field where they hook up to an existing well casing and start pumping until a gigantic 640 acre section is covered with about 6 inches of water. This is repeated every 3 or 4 days, and of course the water always escapes the makeshift perimeter berms to flood roads or just run off into the desert to grow a spectacular crop of 6 ft tall tumbleweeds.