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This USGS website explains the various forms of water loss... https://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleevapotranspiration.html https://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycl
by pmorici 12y ago
This USGS website explains the various forms of water loss...
https://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleevapotranspiration.html https://water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycleevapotranspiration.html
Assuming the farmers are irrigating efficiently then most of the water is being lost to evapotranspiration aka the plants sweating it out through their leaves. Almond trees let more water escape through their leaves than say a cactus might and that is why it takes more water to keep them healthy.
- rb2k_ 12y agoSo I guess the main problem is that the rain might fall somewhere else that is not California and we now have to move that water back there because otherwise they'd run out.
- tracker1 12y agoI still think that water desalinization improvements should see a lot more funding... and that cross-country water pipelines from the areas that commonly flood over, to the southwestern US should be started. Combined with wind and solar power, this can be used as a fuel source (hydrogen storage)... it's rather short sighted that such efforts haven't been made in this country starting years ago.
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- benihana 12y agoCan they not put plastic covers like that around the trees and capture water that way? Or does that kill the tree?