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Reality check…80 percent of Colorado River water goes to agriculture….not that every drop doesn’t count….as far as building permits go…people have to live somewhere and out west there are very few places that aren’t experiencing more drought… …water saving measures with regards to both agricultural and real estate development are nothing new….I remember restrictions being placed on water use going back more than 30 years in California….and nearly as long for ranchers here in Oregon….conservation efforts have been ongoing through all these years and progress has been made…. ….hopefully our present drought will end sooner rather than later but we should prepare for tighter restrictions and increased food costs until they do….
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And IMO even though lawns were inexorably etched into the American psyche, as part and parcel of "The American Dream" of " a house with a lawn and white picket fence".... I think it is past time to drastically rethink that
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Although a much smaller size, golf courses are disproportionately devastating to the environment. They use MASSIVELY more water than food irrigation and much more chemicals.
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There is a fabulous Sam Kinnison joke about curing world hunger and he says "You want to stop world hunger? Stop sending those people food...Send them luggage!" Then he mimes grabbing a handful from the ground and screams " see this? its SAND.....know what its gonna be 100 years from now? its gonna be sand!....nothing grows here. Nothings EVER gonna grow here. Get your kids, get your stuff we'll make one trip. We have deserts in America - we just dont live in them. "
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Too many people.
Everywhere. Until a nuclear winter or a far worse pandemic, things will only get worse. |
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I wish it were as simple as “the government” implementing an appropriate plan....
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It's the root cause of most of society's problems..... I predict that the water shortage globally will lead to WW3 |
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I’m sure the constituents and land developers have no part to play in that calculus…
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Want to actually make a difference in water consumption? Stop eating livestock. It’s exponentially more powerful a lever that getting rid of your lawn, which we’ve also done. |
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While estimates vary considerably (no doubt due to the difficulty in the logistics of calculating an exact number) But the EPA estimates that landscape water usage represents about 30% of residential use,,,, or something along the lines to 7 Billion gallons per day ..... While not only is 7 Billion gallons a fairly substantial "drop" but is in fact something completely arbitrary that every individual and or business .... Can actually do something about now , or relatively quickly without trying to shift diet or involving the government mandate or more regs on the "sacred cow" of Ag .. the only potential "Fly in that ointment" I see being,,,, getting many HOA's, to change priority. https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyNET.exe/...kPage=x&ZyPURL
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Things will not get better if there's a nuclear war or plague.
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In reality it stems from leftover ingrained very real fears, we humans developed from our ancestral roots of being scattered nomadic hunter gathers who were definitely subject to the uncontrolled ebbs, flows, and whims, of nature A lingering perspective or mind set that we must "concur nature" to survive, which while true to some extent we seem to keep taking to the extreme and could eventually serve to be the mechanism of our undoing.
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