Posted on 02/27/2018 7:29:46 PM PST by artichokegrower
The Bay Area should embrace the state’s call Tuesday to make permanent water-wasting rules that were in effect during the last drought. It’s the responsible thing for urban water users to do when the Sierra Nevada snowpack stands at only 20 percent of normal.
But farmers should be required to do their part, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Indoor farming in specially-built high-rises. Everything is grown hydroponically, which eliminates the need for pesticides and favorable weather. Therefore, all the food grown is organic.
I know! They could water their crops with recycled water!
The great thing about sky farms is that any unused/excess water is recycled, minimizing the amount of water required daily.
I remember when politicians worked on solutions. Like more storage acreage, de-salinization plants, So the approximate 130,000,000 gallons used per year by illegal aliens would have no effect if it was applied to agriculture?
Water in California is shared across three main sectors.
Statewide, average water use is roughly 50% environmental, 40% agricultural, and 10% urban, although the percentage of water use by sector varies dramatically across regions and between wet and dry years. Some of the water used by each of these sectors returns to rivers and groundwater basins and can be used again. (These official estimates were last updated in 2010, so they do not reflect recent drought-related changes in water use.) The 80% figure is only representative of the amount of water used in agriculture that comes from irrigation. 20% comes from wells. This all comes from the 40% of water usage in the State by agriculture.
My brother lives in the Bay area. Small landscape irrigation turned of in the winter. He has bills some months of almost $500 for he and his wife — no kids. Beyond stupid.
No need for water... use “Brawndo”
By all means lets have landscaped boulevards, corporate parks and residential lawns at the farmer’s expense.
How many heads of lettuce do you have to harvest from that thing to break even? And how much does a million acres of them cost?
The bums are already irrigating the streets of San Francisco with their recycled water.
Tell him about UC Verde Buffalograss for starters.
Low value crops: Avocados, grapes, artichokes, pistachios...
High value crops: Weed.
Ping
Water wasting
San Jose Mercury...in the heart of the Santa Clara Valley
which was once purported to be the best farming land in
the whole world. If it wasn’t it was right up there.
With urban encroachment farmers were taxed to death so
they made a killing selling their rich crop soil to
those who made their fortunes in concrete and asphalt.
Along comes an asshat, libtard editorial writer to
tell his slobbering readership what assholes farmers
are. Oh,my.
Or Brawndo!
The Thirst Mutilator!
Last time I went through the Central Valley I saw miles and miles of dead trees.
Made me want to cry.
Farmers are not the problem. The problem is idiotic state officials who allowed 52 million acre-feet of water to be flushed out to sea during last year’s historic rains.
Criminal.
Its got what plants crave. Its got electrolytes!
Yep, I’ve driven backroads to Fresno and, as you say, miles and miles and miles of dead orchards. It is criminal, but the farmers are about powerless. Who needs food, anyway?
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