More than half of the western US is facing extreme drought conditions, and farmers in Oregon's Klamath Basin talk about illegally using force to open dam gates for irrigation.
More arrivals from abroad would be a much bigger help, but it is hard to imagine the floodgates opening, given the toxic national politics around immigration.
So in the view of a lot of analysts, this now kind of opens the floodgates potentially to other companies looking to come in and do deals of this kind of size.