California water use:
50% to keep the rivers alive
40% to agriculture
10% to municipalities
And these dumb bastards want to squeeze your lawn brown, while every almond shipped out of state (that’s 95% of total crop) takes 1.1 gallons to grow.
“California water use:
50% to keep the rivers alive
40% to agriculture
10% to municipalities”
Bears repeating, so nice to see someone with critical thinking skills.
What also should be pointed out is that 50% environmental flow requirement is a state constitutional level law. It’s always a percentage too 50% of flows regardless of how wet the year is. Unless the river system gets down to a critical low flow in CFS then that 50% grows as environmental has priority over all other uses. This is California State law and so many here fail to grasp this critical fact. The only way to change the distribution of water is to get enough votes in both houses of the cali legislator then get the Gov to sign the bill OR get a veto proof majority in both houses. Otherwise it’s all moot half of all water must be left in the rivers per water year period end of discussion until those laws are changed. Agriculture is the largest single consumer four times what the cities use and other than almonds as you point out alfalfa is the huge export crop for cows in other countries and states. It takes 5 FEET of irrigation per crop to grow that grass in the desert. 5 acrefeet per acre should be illegal.
not to mention marijuana very water intense, Israel makes the best water desalinization plant starting at just 100 million give them illegals some work.