• regul [any]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      80% of water usage in CA is agricultural, and over a third of that is for water-intensive crops like nuts and alfalfa.

      Add on top of that that half of all domestic water usage in CA is for watering lawns and it becomes obvious that multi-family housing is severely not the problem. Apartment-dwellers use drastically less water than single-family homeowners, but it all pales in comparison to the terrible land use decisions made by Central Valley farmers and enabled by the state.

      • RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        I just finished reading Cadillac Desert which went over all that and more. And yes, the agricultural shit-show in California an issue in its own right, but as someone from a State that CA is stealing water from, I’m a little salty (pardon the pun).