He better restrict the farmers they use 80% of all the water used in California to grow crops that have zero ecological reason to be grown in a desert. Urban use is 10% of total water use and that includes commercial and industrial water uses. Residential is half of that 10% so.5% So Newsom explain in real scientific terms how restricting 5% of the total is going to.accomplish diddly squat. If he was serious about the water use he would issue an EO outlawing the cultivating of any crop that uses more than two acre feet per year. That eliminates alfalfa the number on water hog that uses 4 to 5 feet per year of water over every square foot of ground. Rice nope not in the deserts dummies, almonds 1900 gal a lb uh nope. Just outlawing growing alfalfa which uses 4 to 5 million acre feet per year would allow 89.2 million people more to have 50 gallons per day well above what the WHO says in the recommended amounts for human consumption, washing, bathing and sanitary needs of 150 liters =39 US gallons.
Why 50 gal per day because that’s what my spouse, two dogs and 4500+ sqrt of home uses on avg per month per person. She takes baths on the regular at 50 gal a tub we do laundry nearly daily and the dishwasher runs every other day. We have a grey water system that waters our drought tolerant landscaping using bathwater,laundry water, and sink water. Our toilets flush with grey water as well. We don’t conserve actively the technology does the work for us I take 20+ min showers and let the sink run as I shave all that water is used again none is lost. The only water leaving the system is black water to the septic and that makes a nice green patch of the only grass around the property that’s irrigated aka the dogs potty area. Apartment dwellers should use 30 or less gallons per day they have no grass, and with HE laundry, HE diah washers, dual flush loos and low flow shower heads all required by code here the last time we lived in a townhouse type apartment we used less than 30 gal per person per day. Again 20 min showers were the norm even then it’s hard to waste that much water if you don’t purposely try too.
California has plenty of water they allow farmers to waste it on crops that should be illegal in a desert.
https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
Are you sure? Several years ago, I read that farmers used 80% of all water consumed by humans (agriculture, industry, and domestic needs). But that humans only used 50% of the water.
The other 50% was for environmental needs. Not sure what that meant, but it likely includes draining the rivers into the sea to save "endangered" fish.
So farmers use 80% of human-consumed water, but only 40% of all water.
Please see
https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/
Water in California is much more complicated than you know.
Much of the developed water has been paid for by the ag users themselves. Private and district reservoirs have no way to deliver water to urban users. Much of the water used by ag is from sources that are not feasible for export to urban areas.