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BlueCaliDem

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6. Agriculture in Calfiornia uses 80% of our water. Consumers: 20%.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Apr 19, 2015, 10:51 AM

Apr 2015

The problem isn't that we don't have enough water to sustain our State. The problem lies with California's agriculture that uses and wastes 80% of our water supply, and have for YEARS.

What California needs to do is have agriculture go the Dylan Ratigan way: change California's water-wasting farms into hydropronic farms that would CUT water use on farms by 90%! THIS is what we need to do in addition to stopping the fracking (or charging taxes for it), recycling water and conserving water, as well. Then we'll be all right.

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