Re:Utah officials sued over failure to save Great Salt Lake
by buffington on Thursday September 14, 2023 @05:22PM
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I am not making that mistake. Since I'm also involved in growing said alfalfa, I know very well how much water is used in merely growing it. That I didn't mention that in my reply isn't evidence that I'm making a huge mistake in thinking.
In my opinion, exporting any amount of water is too much.
Saying that doesn't mean I'm unaware of the other ways in which water could be better managed.
And for every liter of water that's left in dry alfalfa, it took ~4,000 liters of water to grow it.
You, like the parent poster, are making a huge mistake, in thinking that that one liter that's getting exported is at all a meaningful part of the water sustainability problem with going alfalfa in a desert. It's not. The unsustainable part of it is the other 3999 liters.
'Don't export alfalfa grown in a desert' optimizes the part that isn't important. 'Don't grow alfalfa in a desert' is what people actually need to be doing.