Nevada golf course replaces grass to conserve water
Persistent drought has been hitting the Rockies, and it's pushing businesses to make some long-term adjustments. One such business is golfing. A Nevada golf course is replacing their grass to conserve water. So far, they've converted 39 acres of cool-seaso...
Regardless of that. One provides a pretty necessary and important service, while the other is requiring a significantly larger investment to provide leisure to the upper class. Especially when the ranchers have been here for generations and settled the land, while the golfers came in recently and our loving government decided to give it to them.
Especially as most of ours is in horses and meat, less in crops. Most of which are native to the land anyway.
That sounds like the root of the problem, besides the fact that water is a limited resource in drought-prone areas.
It is, but we all know that when the choices are "rednecks who run the country" and "rich elites who will give you a throwback" who they will always choose.