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
bob213 wrote:
Agriculture and industry use 80% of California's water without any restrictions. Homeowner's use the rest and are restricted in their use??? The amount you use while in CA will be the "drop in the bucket" we hear about. Come and enjoy.
Ag does not use 80% of of stored water supply. That figure includes environmental water also, it has been highly misquoted by the media. These numbers come from the California Department of Water Resources: Enviromental demands take 50% of the water, ag 40% and urban use the remaining 10%.
I farm and I get ZERO water this year (and last year also). Kind of hard to cut back more from a 0% allocation.
