California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal with Drought

Re:California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal ... by pkaye on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:44PM (#9306730)

My point about the GDP is that it is such a small part of the overall economy that it is feasible to share the burden to improving the irrigation systems across the full population. And perhaps the "use it or lose it" penalties could be put on hold during a prolonged drought situation till hopefully things improve.

Also in your opinion, are the high water usage due to primarily the irrigation methods or that the crops need lot of water? Like almonds for example?

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Re:California Imposes First-Ever Water Restrictions to Deal ... by jconley on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:54PM (#9306807)

Irrigation methods can significantly reduce water usage for some crops. Others require gobs of water. I don't know the numbers for each crop, though.

The Almond Board of California has some info on this for Almonds. Obviously, take this as you will, given the source: http://www.almonds.com/pdfs/waterfactsheet315.pdf

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