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To: bgill
All of CA’s illegals are using up a lot of water. Deport them and US citizens won’t have to sacrifice AGAIN.

We use many, many times more water to grow alfalfa that's exported to China than illegals consume. A quarter of the water use in California goes to just two crops, almonds and alfalfa, both of which are mainly exported overseas. Overall, 80% of water use goes to irrigation. Of what's left, most goes to landscape watering--golf courses a big chunk of it. Only about 8% of water use goes to household use--toilets, showers, etc.

66 posted on 04/01/2015 1:31:40 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: Bubba Ho-Tep; bgill

While I feel for the farmers in California whose livihood depends on irrigation, but their farming lifespan was always limited to the fact they depend on irrigation.

Even with plentiful water supply the fact that ground water carries minerals(specifically salt) after a time, builds up in the soil and “poisons” it, choking off production.
Rain water doesn’t have this and thus any farm that uses irrigation as a main water source has a limited productivity span.

As for the rest of California, you can just hoist upon your own petard(you voted for these fools)


104 posted on 04/02/2015 9:13:26 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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