Last week, Jerry Brown, the governor of drought-stricken California, decreed that water usage in his state's cities and towns should be cut down by 25 percent. That's likely a necessary measure in a bona fide crisis—California has been in an official drought emergency since January 2014—but the order doesn't cover farms, which use 80 percent of the state's water.
http://www.vice.com/read/its-time-to-be ... rought-932According to the most recent report from the Pacific Institute, from 2012, 47 percent of California's water goes toward the production of meat or dairy in some way.
