Caltrans to cut water use by 50 percent
Lots of ways to cut water use and with all the highways and freeways in California this one probably will be more than just a drop in the bucket!
mrfish wrote:This seed is helping to drain California's water supply
According to this report, it takes one gallon of water to produce a single almond. That may be so, but it's worth it. Many of these drought-related news reports seem to be pointing the finger at agriculture for using too much water and they suggest that the agricultural industry will have to be cut back in California. That's not a good idea since without agriculture we have no food. It's not a good idea to reduce the food production capacity of the state. It would be better to consider desalination projects and raising water rates in cities before eliminating any agricultural production.
Lynn Wilson, academic chair at Kaplan University and who serves on the climate change delegation in the United Nations.
"Civilizations in the past have had to migrate out of areas of drought," Wilson said. "We may have to migrate people out of California."
Places with hot weather tend to use the most water. Coastal cities, which enjoy cooler summers and lots of fog, consume relatively little. Santa Cruz residents use only 113 gallons per capita per day. Crescent City, a fishing town near the Oregon border, averages only 97 gallons a day. But in the Central Valley, Inland Empire and Southern California desert areas, where the blazing summer sun requires more water use on landscaping, residents use three or four times that much. In Riverside County, customers of the Coachella Valley Water District use 591 gallons per capita per day.
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