Re:Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone
by reducesuffering on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:50AM
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The Sierra Nevada watershed
https://www.nature.org/media/california/california_drinking-...
The large greenery to the right is the Colorado River which provides 15% of CA water at the bottom.
Re:Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone
by nerdchum on Monday January 02, 2023 @10:28AM
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Sierra Nevada watershed is already being used by Northern California.
It provides 60% of California water.
Even removing the farms, I couldn't find any data supporting that it was enough water for the rest of California.
But that doesn't necessarily mean that it can't either.
The data I found says the Sierra Nevada watershed supports 750,000 farms.
Is that equivalent to 15 million people or so?
Re:Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone
by reducesuffering on Monday January 02, 2023 @03:50PM
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Californian agriculture is 80% of water usage. That agriculture is largely shipped out of state, internationally, and supplying the rest of the US half of its produce outside staple grains: fruits, nuts, vegetables, berries, etc.
I don't understand how that's possible. I don't know of any lakes or rivers or aquifers larger enough to provide water to almost 40 million people in California.