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Just what we need, more cities where there’s no water sucking every last bit of what’s left.
by darth_avocado 3y ago
Just what we need, more cities where there’s no water sucking every last bit of what’s left.
- nekitamo 3y agoResidential areas are not to blame for California's water mismanagement. Agriculture with corruption are.
- bandergirl 3y agoOn the other hand, California feeds half the country and some of the world. Bringing more water in is in the interest of everyone.
- nekitamo 3y agoThe same crops can be grown cheaply elsewhere. Artificially subsidizing California agriculture with unsustainably cheap water undercuts growers in other markets. Stop giving insanely cheap water to large growers with inefficient water usage practices, and the market will quickly right itself and move production elsewhere. At a more sustainable price, with less ecological imbalance.
- amluto 3y agoFor some reason, the same utilities in California sell the same water for agricultural use for 1/20 - 1/10 the price as they sell it to residential or commercial users. To me, this screams inefficiency. I suspect that agricultural users are being charged too little, and so they have too little incentive to be efficient. (Or they are pumping groundwater and paying nothing.) And residential users are being charged more than the service really ought to cost. The only semi-legitimate justification I can come up with is that there are fixed costs associated with water users, and each residential user uses much less water than an agricultural user. But there are better ways to handle this.
- dontupvoteme 3y agoPeople eat avocados and Almonds but they don't feed them.. I'm rather sure that America/the world could easily survive a California without crops without much fuss.
- WirelessGigabit 3y agoSame thing in Arizona. What uses the most water? Alfalfa. What's that you ask? It's horse-feed. That gets transported to Saudi-Arabia.
- fasthands9 3y ago> agriculture accounts for approximately 80 percent of all the water used in California https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Water-Use-And-Efficiency/Agricultural-Water-Use-Efficiency https://water.ca.gov/Programs/Water-Use-And-Efficiency/Agric...
- prawn 3y agoWhat's the water level like coming down the rivers there? I'm not from the area, but looking on satellite views, there are what look like wetlands nearby, a shipping channel going past. No reservoirs in the immediate area. I quickly googled and it suggests Sacramento pulls from the rivers and underground, SF gets its supply from Hetch Hetchy.
- jeffbee 3y agoThis area has an abundance of water. An over abundance of water. In fact any rational analysis would conclude that water is the main natural hazard of this area.