"California’s bounty is on life-support. The California
Dream of “making the desert bloom” is kept alive by an
intricate and often make-shift collection of surgical fixes
that try to make nature do what it does not want to do:
drain lakes and floodplains for fields and cities; reroute
entire rivers over hundreds of miles to water almonds and
subdivisions where no rain falls; and hold back the push
of salt and contamination into drinking water supplies" .

“There’s plenty of land in California, but water makes the wealth” (10:02)