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Residential areas are not to blame for California's water mismanagement. Agriculture with corruption are.

• bandergirl 3y ago
  On 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 ago
    The 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 ago
    For 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 ago
    People 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 ago
  Same thing in Arizona. What uses the most water? Alfalfa. What's that you ask? It's horse-feed. That gets transported to Saudi-Arabia.