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Google234 on May 22, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: A deal to keep the Colorado from going dry – for n...

I wish more people were aware how much water goes to agriculture and would react accordingly when their government asks them to cut water usage or raises prices - 90% goes to (largely wasteful) farming and they don’t really pay…

It’s not the people taking 2 (gasp) showers a day fault, it’s the almond farmers using floors irrigation

Taikonerd on May 22, 2023 [–]

I wish I could upvote this comment 10 times.

This is a political problem. In fact, maybe it's the purest form of political problem: "there's a limited resource. Who gets how much of it?"

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