I live in an area that gets a lot of rain during 9 months of the year (and this past spring was the wettest spring in memory - it just wouldn’t stop raining hard. The local rivers even reached low flood stage.) So, my initial thought is our rates probably won’t go up. So we are fine. But reading this article I realized that what will go up is food prices. The prices have already gone up, but will probably go up a lot more.
Food grown closer to home is greatly expensive for most people, as relatively few people live close to places where agriculture is particularly efficient. Corn locally grown here is never going to be as cheap as corn from Iowa, half of a country away.
As transportation costs are rather minuscule fraction of the cost of the food, it is much cheaper to buy food from afar, where it’s cheaper than local food.
Flying a few weeks ago from North Dakota back to California I noticed as we flew over desert California areas circles where there is farming in the desert. It is like some corporation is tapping into an aquifer and has one circle of crop and these circles are scattered over the area. Some of the circles were no longer green like the water ran out in that area. I don't know how much money could be made from that sort of planting but it feels wrong to wring out the last bit of water in the desert.
