Americans in the past created farmland out of forests, swamp and deserts.They produced the world's most widespread and inexpensive agriculture. They also built dams and canals when needed.
Today, the population is growing by natural and immigration means. Yet many hundreds of thousands of acres of productive land is pushed out of use. At the same time we have chronic water shortages, particularly west of the Mississippi River.
We are also taking too much productive farmland away from food supplies. As well as making food more expensive.
Professional environmentalists stop irrigation wherever they can. Too often it’s to save threatened species of fish
and other organisms they view on the same level with human needs. (See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)
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