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Northern California gets its water from within the state. Both for the cities and the agriculture.
by modeless 4y ago
Northern California gets its water from within the state. Both for the cities and the agriculture.
- jeffbee 4y agoI can't think of any water system in California that imports significant amounts of water. I guess people are trying to count Colorado River water as imported? Perhaps they are unaware that river passes through California.
- njarboe 4y agoUnless you count the Colorado River itself as a water system. :) I would guess that almost none of the water that California gets from the Colorado falls in California. Coloradans sure feel that the down river states don't have the natural right to water that falls on their land.
- jeffbee 4y agoSure, the headwaters of this system are indisputably outside California. Still the Colorado aqueduct has a capacity of just 1.2MAF, which is less than 2% of the state water consumption. The idea that California depends largely on imported water makes little sense.
- frumper 4y agoMexico also has rights to some of that water. It is undeniably a sovereign state.
- bilbo0s 4y agoI think most people are largely unaware of the geography of the Colorado. There is a general lack of understanding of the fundamentals of the water crisis out west. Most don't have a clear picture even of how different states draw from the Colorado for instance. And how those different methods impact watersheds and downstream infrastructure. The lack of information actually exacerbates the entire problem out west, as people give undue concern to, say, Los Angeles. While, say, Scottsdale sits oblivious to the precarious nature of it's situation vis-a-vis water.