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Tell the typical suburban family that water now costs $4k a year (you need to maintain all those pipes under the sidewalk, too) or $333/mo and you'll be able to
by x0x0 11y ago
Tell the typical suburban family that water now costs $4k a year (you need to maintain all those pipes under the sidewalk, too) or $333/mo and you'll be able to hear the screaming from China. Not to mention lots of the coast is close to mountains, and piping water over mountains is too expensive...
Californians, both humans and agriculture (that uses and wastes ludicrous amounts of water) desperately need to start using lots less water on a permanent basis.
- Symbiote 11y agoAn acre-foot (stupid unit!) is about 1.2 million litres. Five average Europeans use 250,000 litres per year, and pay €3.50/l for it. If they used as much as the Americans, that would be over $4000.