On 24-Feb-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

I believe that the needs of agriculture for water have been well defined by
hundreds, even thousands of years of cultivation of crops, and that you have
little credibility when it comes to criticising agriculture.

Turning desert into farmland is not the same thing as farming in an area
that has a natural level of rainfall and water that supports agriculture.
Around here, we farm without draining rivers dry.

It's you that clearly knows nothing about _real_ agriculture.

Mike