California: Govenor orders historic 25 percent mandatory water use reduction

[michal1980]

By sucking water out of the entire western US, yes.

I'm not sure what this we and you is, if CA isn't growing food it's affecting you too pal.

The correct question is: Should CA be growing all that food?

 

[Vic]

The correct question is: Should CA be growing all that food?

Who else is going to grow it?

 

[JSt0rm]

Not sure what you mean by "significant" but we grow plenty of our own over here in the S.E.

I thought CA agriculture had already been severely impacted by lack of water, no?

The bad news is that no matter where one's food comes from a reduction in the supply from CA will likely mean prices rise for everyone.

Fern

California, where cool coastal fog is perfect for growing standard broccoli, currently produces more than 90 percent of the broccoli grown in the United States.

California produces a sizable majority of many American fruits, vegetables, and nuts: 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots (and the list goes on and on). Some of this is due to climate and soil. No other state, or even a combination of states, can match California’s output per acre. Lemon yields in California, for example, are more than 50 percent higher than in Arizona. California spinach yield per acre is 60 percent higher than the national average. Without California, supply of all these products in the United States and abroad would dip, and in the first few years, a few might be nearly impossible to find. Orchard-based products in particular, such as nuts and some fruits, would take many years to spring back.


We grow a lot.

 

[maddogchen]

i heard that California supplies all the almonds consumed in the US. That yearly, most of the bee farms all over the US migrate their bee colonies to California to pollinate the Almond trees. Crazy

 

[JSt0rm]

look at that list. 95% of all garlic? Thats is a metric fuck ton of garlic.

 

[JSt0rm]

we are basically exporting our water to all of you. How about we get some of that back.

 

[rudeguy]

we are basically exporting our water to all of you. How about we get some of that back.

Ok


open your mouth and I'll piss down your throat.

 

[Ns1]

Ok


open your mouth and I'll piss down your throat.

 

[rpanic]

Will this force all of California's women into prostitution?

 

[JSt0rm]

Ok


open your mouth and I'll piss down your throat.

U mad that I called you out for being a chicken hawk? lmao. Whatever dude. I guess being a tough guy on the internet goes along with your MO. :whiste:

 

[Atomic Playboy]

we are basically exporting our water to all of you. How about we get some of that back.

You're the ones who agreed to live in an area where you're being asked to flush the toilet less frequently so alfalfa farmers can get rich selling their products to China. But growing all those crops is probably a better use of water than making sure your non-native imported grass stays a lustrous shade of green so you can pretend you're still in Ohio but with better weather. Good looking out citizens of California; get tricked into moving to a desert so you can turn over all your water rights to grow almonds and garlic for the rest of the country. Way to take one for the team.

 

[JSt0rm]

You're the ones who agreed to live in an area where you're being asked to flush the toilet less frequently so alfalfa farmers can get rich selling their products to China. But growing all those crops is probably a better use of water than making sure your non-native imported grass stays a lustrous shade of green so you can pretend you're still in Ohio but with better weather. Good looking out citizens of California; get tricked into moving to a desert so you can turn over all your water rights to grow almonds and garlic for the rest of the country. Way to take one for the team.

I like how the native plants look.

 

[Genx87]

Think somebody in Silicon valley would come up with an economical vertical farming initiative for the state to save water.

 

[who?]

LOL, you think the environmentalists will let nuclear plants get built in CA? You must have been spending too much time in a dispensary...

They already have the Diablo Canyon and San Onofre nuke plants although I think San Onofre is shut down for good.

 

[JSt0rm]

They already have the Diablo Canyon and San Onofre nuke plants although I think San Onofre is shut down for good.

Well it had a crack in its coolant something or other. This is not the area to be off limits for 100k years. That would seriously mess up the country.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I like how the native plants look.

Yeah, my wife's parents live outside LA, and I remember looking around at the scenic beauty of nature on display and being shocked that so many things could be such a generic shade of brown. The hills are brown rock and brown dirt with occasional patches of brown grass or brown tumbleweeds blowing past a culvert with a trickle of brown water... even the air is brown. It's like God was painting a gorgeous landscape and then sneezed and blew coffee all over it.

 

[JSt0rm]

Yeah, my wife's parents live outside LA, and I remember looking around at the scenic beauty of nature on display and being shocked that so many things could be such a generic shade of brown. The hills are brown rock and brown dirt with occasional patches of brown grass or brown tumbleweeds blowing past a culvert with a trickle of brown water... even the air is brown. It's like God was painting a gorgeous landscape and then sneezed and blew coffee all over it.

Well Im color blind. But I love the desert. I try to go out to the mojave and death valley when I get some breaks.

Look up the eureka dunes.

 

[rudeguy]

Well it had a crack in its coolant something or other. This is not the area to be off limits for 100k years. That would seriously mess up the country.

A Crack in its coolant?


Bwahahahahahaha


Doc is right. You are a fucking idiot.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Well Im color blind. But I love the desert. I try to go out to the mojave and death valley when I get some breaks.

Look up the eureka dunes.

Are you sure you're color blind? Maybe you're just living in a monochrome landscape that you assume should have color. I can just see you getting off the plane in Hawaii: "Holy shit, I CAN SEE EVERYTHING."

 

[Ns1]

Yeah, my wife's parents live outside LA, and I remember looking around at the scenic beauty of nature on display and being shocked that so many things could be such a generic shade of brown. The hills are brown rock and brown dirt with occasional patches of brown grass or brown tumbleweeds blowing past a culvert with a trickle of brown water... even the air is brown. It's like God was painting a gorgeous landscape and then sneezed and blew coffee all over it.

this is also california

tell your folks to move out of the antelope valley.

 

[JSt0rm]

Are you sure you're color blind? Maybe you're just living in a monochrome landscape that you assume should have color. I can just see you getting off the plane in Hawaii: "Holy shit, I CAN SEE EVERYTHING."

I wish that was the case. I grew up in ohio. The grass is orange to me. All these browns look soothing.

 

[JSt0rm]

this is also california

tell your folks to move out of the antelope valley.

well yeah thats big sur right?

 

[Ns1]

well yeah thats big sur right?

sure is. that's the exact point, to judge california's natural beauty based on one location is ridiculous.

 

[Ns1]

also: the desert can be a beautiful ass place

https://www.google.com/search?q=dea...KYCA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAg&biw=1608&bih=804&dpr=0.9

 

[Atomic Playboy]

this is also california

Well I'm sure the nine people who live there are very concerned about their water usage.