Drought/Water Shortage
We are planning our bucket list trip for next fall and going south to California and then east thru Arizona, NM, and Texas before heading northeast to New England and I am concerned about the water sh...
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pira114 wrote:bob213 wrote:
Agriculture and industry use 80% of California's water without any restrictions.
That's about as incorrect a statement as it could be. Read more.
The rest of the (not quoted) statement was correct. The amount of water used while traveling through won't matter at all. Only issue you might run into is trying to fill your tank somewhere other than a campground you're paying for
X2; that 80% figure that is tossed around is excluding the billions of gallons that are diverted.
And amazingly many cities in CA do not, or least didn't a couple years ago, use residential meters. Surprise, surprise, residential use by household in unmetered cities (Sacramento/near Sacramento) were much higher than metered municipalities (Central Valley). I lived in a metered town and was still surprised how cheap the water was compared to other places I lived with much more abundant water.
There is no single answer to CA's problems and traveling there in an RV is far from unethical. CA needs your money. But to solve the problem, CA has to look at all angles: What is the true risk in diverting water? How does ag need to adjust? What are reasonable limits on residential consumption?
