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eppur_se_muova

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11. How much of the cost of this water is subsidized ?

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Mon Feb 24, 2014, 02:43 PM

Feb 2014

I remember reading in "Cadillac Desert" that some of the irrigation water in CA is 90% subsidized (*may be outdated info*), without which these corporate farms couldn't compete with Eastern farms. The result is that water is wasted on crops that use water very inefficiently -- even diverted to horse pasturage !

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