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by "too many people" do you mean using residential water? It is a small fraction of CA's water use. I am all for sustainability, not having lawns in the desert,

by "too many people" do you mean using residential water? It is a small fraction of CA's water use. I am all for sustainability, not having lawns in the desert, etc, but agriculture is the first place to look in CA.

giantg2 5y ago
Not just there. The aquifers under the plains are also almost drained. A lot of that is not for those local people, but for food production for people nationally and internationally.
tormock 5y ago
I wonder how much water the largest mono-crop field in the world uses... it is in California and it is almonds.
- bombcar 5y ago
  Question is also where that water all goes - they say an almond takes 1.1 gallons of water but it clearly doesn’t all end up in the almond.
  - tormock 5y ago
    There's probably a lot of it that end up evaporating...