Re:California drought, visualized with open data
by bmease on Monday December 08, 2014 @08:16PM
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Interesting that irrigation is the largest use of water at ~60%, but livestock and industrial are only 0.5% and 1.5% respectively. I would have thought livestock and industrial use would be larger. Is this distribution of water common in other states?
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Re:California drought, visualized with open data
by dubfan on Monday December 08, 2014 @09:05PM
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Probably not. Agriculture in the western US relies on irrigation due to water scarcity, but places like Iowa have the opposite problem. They actually shunt water off of their fields. Also, losses of agricultural water due to evapotranspiration are higher in CA than in a state like WA due to the hotter, drier climate in CA.