Almonds Not the State's Worst Water Offender

NBC Bay Area ^ | 5/13 | Sam Brock and Rachel Witte

[nickcarraway]

In the Central Valley, it's pronounced amonds.

[dadfly]

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[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Do we now have to blame almonds? Are they racist almonds? Do they deny opportunities to people of color? Do those almonds wish they were on a white man’s plantation or the poor hardscrabble 40 acres of a freed slave being harvested by a mule the slave got as reparations?

I really can’t get any sicker of this crap. Why don’t we instead act like adults and plan for a state that (gasp!) uses water and waters lawns with it and grows foods with it? Or are we better off blaming something we don’t like?

[Shadow44]

California’s suffering a self-inflicted drought. It’s no coincidence that once their stupid green laws got enacted they started suffering droughts.

Allow the infrastructure to be expanded and stop using water for stupid environmental projects.

[Wayne07]

isn’t it almendra in the central valley?

[867V309]

Almonds brought in nearly $6 billion in 2013

Good fiicken' grief. $6 billion wouldn't fund the "African girls with crooked teeth relief fund" of the US GOVERNMENT.

[Fungi]

Rice, alfalfa, almonds—NO. Envirowackos, delta smelt, choo choo train to nowhere, moonbeam “governor,” -—YES.

[easternsky]

Where do grapes fit in the water usage? They are everywhere in Northern and central California to the Livermore Valley and beyond, Everyday see new Vineyards of them.

[867V309]

Where do grapes fit in the water usage?

My guess: cronyism. Follow the money.

[tumblindice]

‘Almonds, pistachios’
Well, that’s just nuts.

[Jet Jaguar]

It’s Cher and Streisand.

[umgud]

As long as we have grocery stores, we don’t need farmers.

[Politicalkiddo]

‘Cause they shake the “l” out of them to get them out of the tree?

[lee martell]

Hey, we need to keep selling our alfalfa and rice.Those two crops help pay the bills and keep thousands of Californians (both legal and illegal) employed.

[lee martell]

Now I’m wanting an Almond Joy candy bar. Two mounds of milk chocolate with shredded coconut inside.

[nickcarraway]

That’s what I heard.

[Ken H]

California is the main supplier of fruits, nuts and vegetables nationwide.

You got that right!

[Secret Agent Man]

I would think California politicians and celebutards are the worst water offenders.

[rrrod]

kill the almond!!!!

[PeatownPaul]

A little unfair for alfalfa, that water produces four or five harvests per watering season. All the others are producing only one harvest.