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Almonds Not the State's Worst Water Offender
NBC Bay Area ^ | 5/13 | Sam Brock and Rachel Witte

Posted on 05/13/2015 10:01:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

Geez - why doesn’t the state of California and those Sanctuary cities just invite more illegals to move there. Uncontrolled immigration has its consequences. You asked for it and now you got it. Difficult to have sympathy for California.


21 posted on 05/14/2015 4:07:56 AM PDT by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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To: nickcarraway

Acre-feet per acre might not be the most appropriate metric.

How about dollars per acre-foot or calories for human consumption per acre-foot.

If we use the last one alfalfa is going to come off poorly, because producing meat or milk is very inefficient per acre.

IOW, six acre-feet per acre might be quite efficient if each acre-foot produces 10M calories. Not so much if it only results in 1M calories.

Note: I have zero idea whether these numbers are even orders of magnitude within range of actual calories per acre-foot.


22 posted on 05/14/2015 4:58:49 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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You’ll often hear the CA almond industry blamed for the loss of honey bees lately — Colony Collapse Disorder etc.
Bees getting trucked out there by the billions...(long story, do a search for “bees, almonds, monoculture.”)

How did the almond get so big? Who’s eating them all? I’ve gone years without eating one. In fact, put me in the candy aisle and I’ll de-select Almond Joy every time.

Seriously. What are they doing with all these nuts?


23 posted on 05/14/2015 5:01:07 AM PDT by Buttons12
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Now I’m wanting an Almond Joy candy bar. Two mounds of milk chocolate with shredded coconut inside.

Slowly I turned...! Down with milk chocolate! Destroy it! We need more -- Mounds more -- dark chocolate and coconuts. The only reason coconuts are scarce is the size of the bee you'd need. As for chocolate, you don't need bees at all. Women will do it.

24 posted on 05/14/2015 5:11:14 AM PDT by Buttons12
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To: nickcarraway

Alfalfa? That’s grown practically all over the country.


25 posted on 05/14/2015 7:34:04 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Ha ha!


26 posted on 05/14/2015 7:34:36 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Secret Agent Man

My California sister said Oprah is trucking in water every day for watering her lawn. Nice if you can afford it........ The problem is she is tearing up the country road she lives on with her trucks.


27 posted on 05/14/2015 7:50:02 AM PDT by Grammy (Save the earth... it's the only planet with chocolate.)
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WOnder why this doesn’t have a news crew filming it.

That would be a great story FOX could cover.


28 posted on 05/14/2015 3:11:08 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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