Share 'Write your legislature - get rid of Use it or Lose it water rights in the Western US (or elsewhere)'

There are lots of water issues and lots of craziness around water, but as someone interested in sustainable agriculture one drives me particularly nuts. For the most part in the Western United States, water use law is a complex patchwork of competing water rights. While it seems unlikely and even unfair to take water rights away from a farmer or others as they have economic value and would destro…