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Originally Posted by Tom_PM
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.
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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.