I understand avocados are a big consumer of water. A friend in the San Diego area was lamenting the loss of their trees to a drought a couple years ago.
Demo voters from Mexico.
Florida has fewer drought issues than California. We battle insects, including the Ambrosia beetle which causes Laurel wilt in avocado trees.
Huge water user.
“The Right to Water
Avocado production is highly water-intensive, roughly 70 liters per fruit, more than 12 times as much as it takes to grow a tomato. (Avocados, like tomatoes, are a fruit, not a vegetable.) Ironically enough, most avocados are grown in relatively arid regions. In California, for instance, whose avocado output amounts to several hundred million pounds per year, the fruit is grown in the southern parts of the state, from San Luis Obispo to San Diego, in the desert. For that is what Southern California is — a “natural desert irrigated by man into a sense of artificial lushness.” It takes a bit less than 75 gallons (about 280 liters) of “blue” water to grow a pound of avocados. Blue water comes from rivers, lakes, streams and aquifers; it does not include rainfall (“green” water) or recycled (“grey”) water.”