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> The focus is on the Urban water users because they are the ones that are facing the problem

they are facing _the repercussions_ of a problem largely caused by someone else.

They did cause it by moving there and building a life there (including building their gardens). If the city had remained a small backwater town, this problem wouldn’t exist because the farms are 75% and the 25% consumed by the city today would end up as surplus each year replenishing water supplies.

The farms predate all the new usage. The new usage from urbanization caused the deficit.

Alternatively, Farms would use 100% of the water, the lake would go dry, and the population would largely accept it as a necessity to maintain their agricultural usage.

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