Mandatory water cutbacks while farmers gobble up all the water

[expatCA]

Originally Posted by Des-Lab

Touché OC.

This isn't a lawns versus food schism, the way the farmers like to spin it. It's about shared burdens, priorities,and perhaps most important, of image and perception. Yes, I am also doing my part cutting back (i.e. letting my back yard go). But the farmers also need to be a little more responsible too. Like what has been pointed out.....growing almonds, rice, and other insanely water intensive crops.....while selling it overseas. The sick irony is while the farmers are making a killing "being practitioners of the worlds fruit basket", a third of the people right here in the Valley-including many of the very people they depend on for the fruits of their labor (pun intended), are starving to death. And surely you saw my post where I took pictures of one farmer taking it a step further by openly and flagrantly flaunting it: hanging "no water"/"solve the water crisis" signs above his field that was flooded by a rusted open valve pipe. THAT is wrong. If it can't be grown via drip and/or restricted to local distribution, then it shouldn't be grown here. Period.

The next elections are when?

[benshaton]

How about Interstate Water Pipelines which would pump water from parts of the country with a surplus of water to parts with a deficit? Since 80% of California's water is being used for agriculture which supplies 25% of the crops consumed by the nation it would be win win solution for all. It'll create jobs and the water can be stored in the reservoirs we already have that now are way under capacity.

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And what part of the country would you propose getting the water. Click on this link.

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