So where are your news gods now , buddy ? <| sep |> Cool if you didn ' t intend to be rude , it was just hard not to read it that way . To me it does sound like a folkstory expressing an unexpected wisdom . However , I found the OP ' s question interesting because the two women are prostitutes , as the people of the two halves of the nation are described as prostitutes elsewhere . Since that doesn ' t happen until way over in the prophets though , and this story sounds folksy , I wouldn ' t exactly connect them . But it is an interesting take on it . <| sep |> The 80 % stat ignores the enviro part ag use is 80 % of nonenviro usage because it ' s necessary for various reasons or required by federal and some state which I guess could be changed if needed law and the other two are human usage of resourses that can potentially be curtailed with more efficient usage Environmental water use falls into four categories water in rivers protected as wild and scenic under federal and state laws , water required for maintaining habitat within streams , water that supports wetlands within wildlife preserves , and water needed to maintain water quality for agricultural and urban use . More than half of California ' s environmental water use occurs in rivers along the state ' s north coast . These waters are largely isolated from major agricultural and urban areas and their wild and scenic status protects them from significant future development . In dry years , the share of water that goes to the environment decreases dramatically as flows diminish in rivers and streams . During this latest drought , the state also reduced water for the environment to reserve some supplies for farms and cities . 1108 basically some state parks could probably have some water taken from them , but a lot of the water is required to be used for that by the feds or is needed for maintaining necessary things like an environment that will continue to have water in the future