Everything I thought I knew about water in California is wrong (2015)

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by azanar • 4 years ago

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32gbsd• 4 years ago

Everyone knows that cali puts its water into fruits, meat and veges then sells it to other places by the tonne. Its simple

ZeroGravitas• 4 years ago

This tries a little too hard to be contrarian.

Drip irrigation won't help, because the boost in productivity means because farmers will just use more water?

Flood irrigation isn't wasteful, it's just polluting?

Farmer's are 'forced' to flood irrigate because they're not allowed to sell all their water rights to cities and ship it out.

Farmer's don't use all the water, the river and fish do?

We can't tell farmers what to do (because they'd sue us).

We can't limit farmers water, because they'll just pump out groundwater instead.

Put it all together and it's still the agriculture industry to blame because they're not regulated enough (though California has tried and made some progress).

Maybe that's too "top down and centralized", but maybe it's just a fact?

Everything I thought I knew about water in California is wrong (2015)

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