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All my Palo Alto neighbors who over water their lawns everyday surely don't look very desperate... (which makes me desperate)
by ar7hur 12y ago
All my Palo Alto neighbors who over water their lawns everyday surely don't look very desperate... (which makes me desperate)
- asadotzler 12y agoDiscussing lawn watering is a distraction. It's literally a drop in the ocean. Industry, power generation, and agriculture are where all the water goes. Pretending that residential usage matters at all is to take ones eye off the ball.
- seanflyon 12y agoMore specifically agriculture is 77% and residential is 13% according to this UCLA report from 2009 (though there data looks like it is from 2005). http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article4870.html http://www.environment.ucla.edu/reportcard/article4870.html http://www.environment.ucla.edu/media/images/water-fig1-lrg.jpg http://www.environment.ucla.edu/media/images/water-fig1-lrg....