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Most agricultural water costs are from growing crops in areas where there is not enough rainfall: California's Imperial Valley is a desert (3 inches of rain per
by dsr_ 6y ago
Most agricultural water costs are from growing crops in areas where there is not enough rainfall: California's Imperial Valley is a desert (3 inches of rain per year) and produces $1 billion of food and cotton each year. Then all the waste runs into the Salton Sea -- another unpaid-for externality.
- abeppu 6y agoSo, maybe someone here knows the number -- but what would the cost of a loaf of bread be (or what would the multiplicative factor on food costs be) if we restrained ourselves to growing without irrigation?