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...
Forum Discussion
murphyranch wrote:
80% is Ag water and 20% is for humans. So the yahoo's here are complaining that Ag has too many water rights. WHAT? lets see - CA is the largest Ag state in the United States, we produce so much food for our country and we help feed the rest of the world too. You wanna take the water from Agriculture and re-allocate to residential? I think not.
TV show 2 nights ago:
Almond growers in CA use more water than all residents of LA and SF!
Almonds and Pistachios take 1.1 gallon Per Nut to grow.
Many are exported to Asia.
Pretty sure a reallocation of water is necessary.
Each Pistachio I ate that night, was tempered by guilt that a CA resident couldn't flush their low-flow toilets.
