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Maybe we should decrease pumping out the californian aquifers. Maybe we should stop growing rice and almonds in the desert.

• hansel_der 6y ago
  > Maybe we should stop growing rice and almonds in the desert. sounds reasonable. maybe generally put sane limits on water usage in desert areas (swimming pools et.al.)
  • bradlys 6y ago
    I’m pretty sure almonds and other high water usage foods are more problematic than swimming pools... If your average family just bought 1 bag of almonds every year, that’d be an entire swimming pool - depending on size. (1900 gallons per lb of almonds) I’m pretty sure people eat more than one bag of almonds per family just due to all the things that contain almonds.
    • hansel_der 6y ago
      probably true. but the sight of a pool in the midst of a desert, evaporating water nonstop, always itches me as "just wrong".