Comment by oatmeal1
18 days ago
The problem isn't storage capacity. It's wasteful consumption growing water-intensive crops in the desert.
18 days ago
The problem isn't storage capacity. It's wasteful consumption growing water-intensive crops in the desert.
It absolutely is about storage capacity. If California built out a better system of reservoirs, it wouldn't need to take water from other states in the Colorado river basin.
crops are kind of important though
You can grow almonds elsewhere, they are not needed for daily life
CA, apparently, grows almonds for the entire United States, and 80% of the world's almonds, too.
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They don’t have to be grown in the desert
Almonds aren’t grown in the desert, they’re grown in the Central Valley. And they’re grown there because before it’s incredibly fertile soil.
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