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ELI5 What is Californias worse case scenario concerning the drought?

I honestly am not sure thise is the right place for this but it fits for now. i know the articles say California has a year of water left. Obviously during this there will be fines and mandates restricting use. So what happens when we run out regardless of the fines and restrictions? Will the government step in? Will we have to abandon our houses? Does California become a Mad Max style place?
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Since normal people actually only use a small fraction of the water and most of it goes to agriculture. It is to hoped that the government would restrict the use of water for things like growing alfalfa. 

Alfalfa makes up 15% of the water used in California and most of it gets shipped to Japan and China. That is right currently while draught is going on the government is paying farmers to export 1/6th of the water used in California overseas.

So the sane worst case scenario would be government stepping in and restricting farmers from using water for luxury or export crops like almonds and hay and possibly paying them for their losses.

The humans could live of the water California has left even though a server drought. It is the farmers who are going to have serious problems and through them the taxpayers who need to keep them from going bankrupt.