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The largest water user, at least in California, is agriculture. Fortunately they're now planting fewer acres of low-value crops such as cotton. But other crops
by PhantomGremlin 7y ago
The largest water user, at least in California, is agriculture. Fortunately they're now planting fewer acres of low-value crops such as cotton. But other crops use an insane amount:
1 walnut 4.9 gallons
1 almond 1.1 gallons
1 pistachio 0.75 gallons
And it looks like Palm Springs is a big water user. Must be all those golf courses?
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/wheres-californias-water-going/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/02/wheres-calif...
- r00fus 7y agoI heard meat/milk production uses a significantly larger amount of water (in addition to the crops eaten by the animals).
- lostlogin 7y agoIt’s the waste from cattle that’s a bigger problem. And areas with little rainfall seem to be particularly bad at handling all the excess nitrogen.
- avip 7y agoDates not mentioned? Date palms can drink cube a day!
- LargeWu 7y agoWhen I was in the Palm Springs area about 10 years ago they were watering their sand to keep the amount of dust down.