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> I dont like in general enabling people to live wasteful lives Those wasteful people in California only use 20% of the water. The other 80% is agriculture.
by RajT88 4y ago
> I dont like in general enabling people to live wasteful lives
Those wasteful people in California only use 20% of the water.
The other 80% is agriculture.
I am sure there's a great many ways to get farmers to use less water.
- silon42 4y agoIf the land is fertile it might make sense to use it (while keeping it fertile) before it turns to desert and the top soil blows away.
- RajT88 4y agoI wasn't suggesting we stop farming. Rather, there's a lot of ways that modern industrial farming isn't as efficient as it could be. A lot of farms farm by brute force: Plant a ton of seeds, spray a ton of fertilizer, blow a ton of water on the fields and hope for the best. It's how we end up with huge numbers of algal blooms in the waterways - fertilizer runoff is massive in most areas.