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Re:California farmers are planting solar panels as water sup... by ac29 on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:16PM (#20595757)
California agriculture uses roughly 10¹³ gallons of "applied" water a year [0]. That would cost a bit more than $200 to run RO on.

[0] https://www.ppic.org/publication/water-use-in-california/

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Re:California farmers are planting solar panels as water sup... by OrgNet on Friday August 02, 2019 @03:29PM (#20595858)
Because they don't get taxed properly for destroying the environment, it would be a lot worst.
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