The Colorado River is shrinking

Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by rtkwe on Thursday July 22, 2021 @10:21PM (#27926527)

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

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Re:The Colorado River is shrinking by CountDrewku on Monday July 26, 2021 @10:35AM (#27959874)

>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.

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