From the cited blog ...

... Lynda and Stewart Resnick -- the oligarch pistachio farmers of Beverly Hills -- are currently going viral. Influencers are out making tiktoks, tweets, and reels. They're outraged at finding out that one Los Angeles billionaire family controls more water than Los Angeles uses in an entire year. ...

Wait, what?

Taking a step back ...

@#3

My first question ... who?

@#6

From the article cited in #6 ...

... With an estimated $6 billion in revenue and 175,000 square acres of farmland, 130,000 of which are in California, the Wonderful Company is one of the largest agricultural businesses in the state, growing pistachios, almonds, pomegranates, and citrus fruits.

The company used approximately 150 billion gallons of water in 2021, according to an estimate cited by Forbes. (A company spokesperson said estimates for 2022 and 2023 were in line with the 2021 figures). The Wonderful Company uses less than 1% of the state's water, Oster said.

According to California's Department of Water Resources (DWR), reservoirs statewide were holding 23.9 million acre-feet of water, or about 7.79 trillion gallons. That figure does not include current statewide ground water levels, where capacity is far greater. California's total ground water is estimated at 850 million to 1.3 billion acre-feet, according to the DWR.

Through the Wonderful Company, the Resnicks -- who have a net worth of $6.3 billion, according to Forbes -- own a 57% stake in the Kern Water Bank Authority, which manages a series of reservoirs and pipes near Bakersfield, Calif. that can store up to about 488 billion gallons of water. ...