New York Times: For more than a century, California has been the state where people flocked for a better life 164,000 square miles of mountains, farmland and coastline, shimmering with ambition and dreams, money and beauty. It was the cutting-edge symbol of possibility: Hollywood, Silicon Valley, aerospace, agriculture and vineyards. But now a punishing drought and the unprecedented measures the state announced last week to compel people to reduce water consumption is forcing a reconsideration of whether...