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GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Mar-2021 22:05:50 UTC GeniusMusing California’s snowpack signals another dry year, prompting calls to save water California | The Guardian
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>Water resources officials found that the snowpack, which supplies a third of the state’s water each year, had a water content of just 61% of average
>...- LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} and Douglas A. Whitfield repeated this.
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LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Mar-2021 13:31:49 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @geniusmusing They only restrict consumer-facing uses, while the farm industry continues to use around 90% of #California’s water and industrial uses take 8-9%.
The water industry has known for decades that our estimates of “normal” are based on a particular high-precipitation period, and that desalinization is the only way to sustain the current usage levels and population.