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Water shortages: Why some Californians are running out and others aren’t
- dataflow 5y agohttps://www.businessinsider.com/almonds-use-a-lot-of-water-in-california-2015-3 https://www.businessinsider.com/almonds-use-a-lot-of-water-i...
- pstuart 5y agoA compromise would be a program that promoted/subsidized drip irrigation (zero interest loans), as well as resetting water prices to more accurately reflect its value.
- redis_mlc 5y agoBecause of historic water agreements, nobody will give up their existing allotment until there's a crisis. Good idea though. (China has been essentially exploiting our water by buying our nuts, so maybe stop growing nuts.) Also, the Bay Area has been sucking the Santa Clara aquifer dry, though it appears to have stabilized at the current level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_valley_aquifer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_valley_aquifer https://www.usgs.gov/centers/ca-water-ls/science/land-subsidence-santa-clara-valley https://www.usgs.gov/centers/ca-water-ls/science/land-subsid...
- ppf 5y agoI have read reports that 90% of May's inflow to Lake Oroville was immediatlely discharged, to maintain (a particular definition of) the river habitat downstream. Unfortunately, CDEC's website with data for California is apparently down, otherwise this link would confirm this: https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?ORO https://cdec.water.ca.gov/cgi-progs/queryF?ORO Obviously, growing water-intensive produce in the desert does not help the situation.