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Growing cows you mean. Half of California's water usage is growing alfalfa to feed to cattle. Not half of agricultural usage, half of total usage. The almond t

Growing cows you mean. Half of California's water usage is growing alfalfa to feed to cattle. Not half of agricultural usage, half of total usage. The almond thing is basically a meme in comparison. Not that the almond farms shouldn't also be made to deal with this. Someone else in this thread mentioned Israeli almond farms that use 1/20 of the water the Californian ones do because they have smarter methods of irrigation.

acdha 5y ago
> Half of California's water usage is growing alfalfa to feed to cattle. Not half of agricultural usage, half of total usage. Do you have a cite for that? The figures I’ve put half of the total usage at environmental, with agricultural use at 40% total. https://cwc.ca.gov/-/media/CWC-Website/Files/Documents/2019/06_June/June2019_Item_12_Attach_2_PPICFactSheets.pdf?la=en&hash=E233EA870DFB826F235B258177849300179E1B64 https://cwc.ca.gov/-/media/CWC-Website/Files/Documents/2019/... These figures appear to be recent and show alfalfa to be the third most water-intensive crop, with nuts getting a lot of attention because that usage has been going up dramatically over the last couple of decades as farmers planted new trees at a rapid pace. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/specialsections/these-are-the-california-crops-that-use-the-most-water/ https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/specialsections/these-...