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“It is incumbent upon all users of the Colorado River to find ways to conserve,” Pellegrino said in a statement. I suspect this will fall on deaf ears in Los A

by xbar 6y ago

“It is incumbent upon all users of the Colorado River to find ways to conserve,” Pellegrino said in a statement. I suspect this will fall on deaf ears in Los Angeles county. More housing is desired instead.

0xB31B1B 6y ago
Housing, at least multi family housing, isn’t was uses all of the water. 90% of the water is used by agriculture and landscaping, remove the almond/alfalfa farms and shut down the golf courses and you’ve solved the “crises” and you are now using much less water than is naturally available
bushbaba 6y ago
Urbanites can recycle water. Israel recycles nearly 90% of its water. LA recycles about 2%. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-water-recycling-los-angeles-20190222-story.html https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-water-recycling-lo... https://www.fluencecorp.com/israel-leads-world-in-water-recycling/ https://www.fluencecorp.com/israel-leads-world-in-water-recy...
- divbzero 6y ago
  Singapore provides another case study in judicious use of water. [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Singapore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
  - dehrmann 6y ago
    That's an odd example. Singapore gets 92 inches of rainfall per year vs 15 per year for LA and 4 for Vegas. It's probably driven more by politics for Singapore so they don't need to rely on Malaysia for water.
    - flukus 6y ago
      Singapore is essentially a city state so is very limited in how much of that rainfall can be stored long term. If you look on a satellite map you'll see that the undeveloped land is already dominated by water catchment and storage: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Singapore/@1.3931232,103.7270086,39985m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x31da11238a8b9375:0x887869cf52abf5c4!8m2!3d1.352083!4d103.819836 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Singapore/@1.3931232,103.7... The same is true in many pacific islands, they get plenty of rainfall but it's not always storable or predictable, a lot comes at once from a cyclone/hurricane for instance, but you might get 2 of them a year and then nothing for a decade.
gremlinsinc 6y ago
I live in Utah. I read that I think collectively Utahn's use like 2% of the entire water supplied to us? The rest? Industry and Agricultural. we waste a TON to evaporation via all the irrigation we do, we need to mandate hydroponics and moving to vertical farms/etc to make water more productive. Yet the government focuses only on that 2% because if we're busy shaming each other we're not going to aim the pitch forks at the mines, factories, farms, etc that are the real culprits.

by xbar 6y ago

0xB31B1B 6y ago

Housing, at least multi family housing, isn’t was uses all of the water. 90% of the water is used by agriculture and landscaping, remove the almond/alfalfa farms and shut down the golf courses and you’ve solved the “crises” and you are now using much less water than is naturally available

bushbaba 6y ago

Urbanites can recycle water. Israel recycles nearly 90% of its water. LA recycles about 2%. https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-water-recycling-los-angeles-20190222-story.html https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-water-recycling-lo... https://www.fluencecorp.com/israel-leads-world-in-water-recycling/ https://www.fluencecorp.com/israel-leads-world-in-water-recy...

divbzero 6y ago
Singapore provides another case study in judicious use of water. [1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Singapore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in...
- dehrmann 6y ago
  That's an odd example. Singapore gets 92 inches of rainfall per year vs 15 per year for LA and 4 for Vegas. It's probably driven more by politics for Singapore so they don't need to rely on Malaysia for water.
  - flukus 6y ago
    Singapore is essentially a city state so is very limited in how much of that rainfall can be stored long term. If you look on a satellite map you'll see that the undeveloped land is already dominated by water catchment and storage: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Singapore/@1.3931232,103.7270086,39985m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x31da11238a8b9375:0x887869cf52abf5c4!8m2!3d1.352083!4d103.819836 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Singapore/@1.3931232,103.7... The same is true in many pacific islands, they get plenty of rainfall but it's not always storable or predictable, a lot comes at once from a cyclone/hurricane for instance, but you might get 2 of them a year and then nothing for a decade.

gremlinsinc 6y ago

I live in Utah. I read that I think collectively Utahn's use like 2% of the entire water supplied to us? The rest? Industry and Agricultural. we waste a TON to evaporation via all the irrigation we do, we need to mandate hydroponics and moving to vertical farms/etc to make water more productive. Yet the government focuses only on that 2% because if we're busy shaming each other we're not going to aim the pitch forks at the mines, factories, farms, etc that are the real culprits.