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The State of California took an unprecedented move today [June 14] by uniformly restricting water supplies across the entire state. Farms will be most affected, although food prices aren't anticipated to rise in any hurry: imports from out of state continue apace. It's notable that this is a problem Silicon Valley hasn't been helping to solve.
Will this move force some much-needed modernization upon the infrastructure supporting the state's 38 million residents? Or will things continue to be corn, corn, corn for the time being?
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California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday June 14 2015, @10:09PM
and that brings up the interesting point that produce export is exporting that volume of water permanently out of that ecosystem
Which is not all that interesting a point since far larger volumes of water move in and out of that ecosystem naturally.
(Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday June 14 2015, @11:08PM
Maybe it is interesting. There's a difference between water and usable water. The world is mostly covered with water but very little of that is good to drink or water crops. Of that water that moves in and out of CA (or anywhere for that matter), how much is actually available for use? I don't know the answers but if simple access to any old water in any form was satisfactory, there wouldn't be a water crisis in anywhere.