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Re:Washington voters approve legalized marijuana by Retric on Thursday November 08, 2012 @11:02AM (#4758295)
Municipal water costs in the US average around .0015 cents a gallon. Flushing your toilets with .0075 cents per gallon would not be prohibitive, growing crops with .0075 cents per gallon water would be. However, far more water goes to growing crops than flushing toilets.

PS: There are actually huge swings in water costs in different areas, which does impact water use significantly.

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Re:Washington voters approve legalized marijuana by sliverstorm on Thursday November 08, 2012 @05:39PM (#4760289)
growing crops with .0075 cents per gallon water would be

Only because everybody else is growing with 0.0015 cents a gallon. If everybody was growing with 0.0075 cents per gallon, food would be more expensive, but we wouldn't suddenly be unable to feed ourselves.

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Re:Washington voters approve legalized marijuana by Retric on Thursday November 08, 2012 @10:51PM (#4761172)
All things being equal if water averaged .0075 cents per gallon it's because there was less of it. So, we would still use some of it to grow crops, but we would not be growing as much food.

PS: We are used to abundance, but there really are hard limits out there.

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