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Old 06-27-2008, 11:28 AM
 
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I recently moved to east bay area with my young family, kids ages 3 and 5, and we've been looking for parks or areas with fun water play for children with fountains and/or pools. We found a couple in Danville that were turned off because of the water rationing. We're willing to drive a ways to get there, but of course the closer the better.
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Old 04-06-2015, 02:40 PM
 
Location: Newport Coast, California
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How tragic, turning off little play fountains for children that use a negligible amount of water, yet allowing tens of billions of gallons of water to to flow out to sea for nothing. We drained the reservoirs running rivers at full capacity for the delta smelt.

Almond production in the CA uses more water than the entire cites of Los Angeles and San Francisco combined.

Most of the almond crop is sent to China.

What a backwards world.
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Old 04-06-2015, 04:44 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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Farmers are over-investing in almonds, because they're a more profitable crop than many others. This is exactly how free trade is supposed to work. The theory was/is that countries focus on producing whatever cash crop they're able to grow best and cheapest, and sell it on the international market. So Ecuador exports flowers, and the US is turning into the main almond exporter. In developing the economic theory, though, the availability of natural resources like water was taken for granted.


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