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Originally Posted by dyna mo
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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This is the problem in reality..
I saw the same stupid shit all over Texas as well. Dumb ass people own a bunch of land and think it's their god given right to grow shit on it and the law gives them access to irrigated water.
We shouldn't be farming in places that can't sustain the crops from mostly natural rainfall. It's not even just crops, in the middle of West Texas I saw miles and miles of shrimp and crawdad farms where they build up berms and flood the area with water to farm them.
I also saw miles and miles of dried up farm land with no water to irrigate it, because all the local water sources were dried up and I'm sure there is a lot more to come of that.. (saw countless rivers and lakes that show on Google maps that were bones dry)
Granted we have to farm but we should be doing it where there isn't a need to irrigate constantly due to the area not being fit to grow crops.