Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling

Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by tenpies on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:21AM (#36405298)

To be honest, the other problems are that almonds are more of a luxury food, rather than a major staple food item.

You could feed many more people with higher yielding trees, like apples or even citruses. But then again, the almond is such an integral part of the upper middle class suburbia which makes up so much of California that we literally have expression around it: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=almond%20mom

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Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by redeeman on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @11:42AM (#36405680)

> more of a luxury food

I'd like your assistance in classifying other items, such as

1: upholstered furniture 2: refridgerator 3: wheat mixed with water, non-baked 4: bread

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Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling by ajmurmann on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:39PM (#36406685)

While you get a lot of downvotes, I think your comment does a good job showing why we ideally would price water at market price and let consumers decide what's luxury, what isn't and what it's worth to them. That said, pricing water at market price for agriculture is almost impossible due to existing water rights.

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