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Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot | I don't remember the exact figures, and I'll let someone who does know them chime in.
Of course almonds and walnuts use a lot of water, they cover a large portion of CA farmland now. But when was it such a bad thing to use water to irrigate a crop? Water is renewable, it is not consumed or altered, and using it to raise food, fuel and fiber doesn't seem like a waste at all to me.
Farmers are going to raise whatever is the most profitable. There are plenty of years where agriculture isn't profitable, but people see money being made and want to get all excited about that the fact that a portion of the crop is exported. Same thing happened with alfalfa a while back. We were "exporting" water in the form of alfalfa from California. As if how much hay, or almonds we export has anything to do with how much snow we'll get this winter.... | |
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How much water does a CA almond crop use?
