>Almonds are ~9% or so of our ag water supply, feed for meat and meat products use 50%+ of our ag water supply. Is this in all of the US, or...? Water supply

>Almonds are ~9% or so of our ag water supply, feed for meat and meat products use 50%+ of our ag water supply. Is this in all of the US, or...? Water supply is a very localized thing, so comparing water usage in say, Iowa to water usage in California isn't really apple-to-apples. You won't solve California droughts by reducing water usage in Iowa, for example. >Also note that California produces 80% of the world's almonds, but something like 1% of the world's meat. If these numbers are accurate, it seems like it's more sensible to discuss almonds in the face of water usage and eschew talking about meat, since California in the midst of its many droughts is specifically using a lot of its local water supply on almonds, not meat. edit: the numbers I found from a quick Wikipedia search are that 11% of Cali's Ag water is used on pasture forage (though this doesn't necessarily mean it's for meat; from other information on the Wiki page it looks like a lot of this pasture forage is for horses), and 18% on Alfalfa which is exported as cattle feed. So that's anywhere from 18% - 29% on "meat and meat products", whereas 34% is "fruit and nuts" (it's unstated how much of that is almonds).