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The Sierra provide ample water and silt for the central valley that makes it one of the worlds ideal farming lands. It's been very actively farmed for more tha
by narrator 9y ago
The Sierra provide ample water and silt for the central valley that makes it one of the worlds ideal farming lands. It's been very actively farmed for more than 100 years.
Sure, the water situation has gone up and down with the drought, but normally there's plenty of water. A lot of the almond orchards had to be scaled back during the drought, but when there's water they use it. It's a lot more sustainable than many other farming lands because it's not dependent on an underground aquifer that took eons to fill up or water piped in from somewhere far away except for the urban areas of course.
- skybrian 9y agoOh come on, that's a weird definition of "ample", considering the frequent droughts and that water rights have always been a huge source of dispute in the western U.S. The question is whether there's enough water for both farming and huge cities. Cities can pay much more, so if water rights were transferrable, farmers wouldn't grow almonds. They would sell their water to cities and retire.
- lostlogin 9y agoIs it a drought or is the baseline taken from an unusually wet period?
- dgacmu 9y agoI wish this was true, but it's not: https://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/land-subsidence-san-joaquin-valley.html https://ca.water.usgs.gov/projects/central-valley/land-subsi... The land in parts of the central valley has subsided by meters due to long-term groundwater depletion.