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Well, I remember back in the ‘70s not flushing the toilet while they grew rice in the desert.

[CIB-173RDABN]

rice in the desert.

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Rice is grown in the delta - that is on islands surrounded by water and protected by dykes. The water not used for farming flows out to the Pacific Ocean

So generally speaking even if they stop growing rice it would not add to the the amount of water available to people.