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To: Skywise

Yes - keep letting millions upon millions of illegal immigrants in and then wonder why you don’t have enough water or can’t provide enough power…

Democrats need them for mid term elections!!


71 posted on 01/29/2022 6:44:23 PM PST by tallyhoe
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To: tallyhoe

Urban water use is 10% of total water use in California that includes commercial and industrial users which are half of that 10% so residential use is only 5% that’s a rounding errors compared to the agricultural use. Even if half the population is illegals that is still only 2.5% a literal drop in the bucket.

Those geniuses dump 5 million acres feet of water on growing grass in the desert to feed cows with it. Alfalfa is the largest user of water in the state. Most of that grass is exported to places like Saudi Arabia. Look deeper than some little political skree agriculture is the abuser of water in California but hey don’t let facts get in the way of a good straw man argument.

https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/

USC Davis has a good study on water use by the alfalfa sector. Google scholar it they have ET pans, digital soil moisture sensors, flow.gauges, aerial multispectrial imagery the works. Short of it to grow grass in the desert you need 60” plus of water irrigated just to counter the evaporation and transporation of that climate. That’s FIVR FEET of water per acre. It’s not the illegals it’s big agriculture notice try though.


85 posted on 02/02/2022 1:21:54 PM PST by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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