Time for Army Corps of Engineers to investigate moving water West?

Re:Time for Army Corps of Engineers to investigate moving wa... by kickout on Monday August 01, 2022 @09:16AM (#32305492)

I was trying to imply once water sourcing becomes a major issues, basic needs for residents will become hard. Agriculture is small % but if water is a problem, there will be some exodus of people/corps. That’s where the big gdp hits would likely come from

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Re:Time for Army Corps of Engineers to investigate moving wa... by bee_rider on Monday August 01, 2022 @10:40AM (#32306607)

> Statewide, average water use is roughly 50% environmental, 40% agricultural, and 10% urban, although the percentage of water use by sector varies dramatically across regions and between wet and dry years.

(it looks, based on their graphs, like agricultural usage is sticker, in the sense that it doesn't go down nearly as much in dry years).

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

Since agricultural use takes up a ton of water and produces a fairly small % of the overall GDP, I'd expect them to shift usage toward whatever the high-productivity sectors want before they allow an exodus.

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