Posted on 06/05/2021 11:52:08 AM PDT by eyeamok
My impression is that a lot of the water that goes to LA comes from various parts of the central valley.
If LA didn’t need that water due to desalination—then that water could be allocated to central valley farmers
I don’t think he means shipping desalinated water from the coast to the valley. I think he means that the coastal regions, which are populated by millions, desalinated their own water and the valley using water from the Sierra watersheds. Which makes absolute sense to me.
“In what way exactly?”
We have turned off their (actually, OUR) water.
They’ll figure it out.
100s of thousands of olive trees have already been planted. And millions of almond trees sold for firewood.
It’s a transition that takes 3-10 years...a portion at a time.
The problem is, NOTHING PAYS LIKE ALMONDS. Big corporate farms of several thousand acres dominate that crop and if it was up to them they would put the very last bucket of water onto the thirstiest crop in the state.
And they ship OVER half of the crop out of the country.
It’s obscene.
It takes a full gallon of water to grow every single nut. 10 times as much as olives.
“I think he means that the coastal regions, which are populated by millions, desalinated their own water and the valley using water from the Sierra watersheds. Which makes absolute sense to me.”
Aye.
It makes perfect sense.
I was answering the poster who told almond farmers (whom I guess are still farming them) to switch over to olives is all.
Key is getting the price of seawater desalination below the cost of piping water from arizona and the sierra nevadas. If you all would like to push that—a simple thing to do would be to suggest an Xprize contest. The contest would be to produce environmentally friendly desalinated seawater for $300@acre foot. I think that price is lower than the price that LA pays for water from arizona and the sierras.)
Here is the Xprize suggestion box.
https://www.xprize.org/contact
Perhaps Desalination plants would have been a better use of money than hi-speed rail.
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