Most of the water usage in the US west is farming not from residential use and a lot of residential use isn't destructive since it's treated and released.
Re:The Colorado River is shrinking
by CountDrewku on Thursday July 22, 2021 @07:14PM
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Farming feeds people and gives them jobs. It's not a separate entity that has nothing to do with the people living there.
For the whole US only 1.3% of people are employed directly on farms and for Utah the number is 1,442 or 0.04% of the population. [0] There are other places farms can be other than a desert. Some jobs have too big of an impact to just support endlessly simply because it's someone's job. These water intensive processes have massive impacts on the environment, look at the valley in California that's sunk 11 feet because of the immense amount of water that's been pulled out of the land.
[0] https://jobs.utah.gov/jsp/utalmis/#/occupation/452093/report
Re:The Colorado River is shrinking
by CountDrewku on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:35AM
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>here are other places farms can be other than a desert.
Where?
You act like these farms are just there because they like wasting water. Someone is buying the product or they wouldn't exist.
If you want a modern lifestyle deal with it. Deserts are going to have to be used for growing stuff.
Ok then they'll use it up and the problem will solve itself.
I don't agree that you can live there and have the infrastructure to support jobs, food etc. with "very little impact"