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Old 09-05-2014, 07:51 AM  
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There's a billion dollar desalination plant going up in San Diego county, but even when it comes online in 2016 it will only offset 7% of that county's water needs at 50 million gallons of output per day. You would need a hell of a lot of billion dollar plants to make enough water for needs as large as California's are.
it's insane here. we are the world's largest supplier of almonds for instance. Almonds are not native to this region. it takes 1.5 gallons of water per almond to grow almonds.
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