Comment Stop growing Alfalfa in the Desert (Score 2) 156
.... and exporting it to China in shipping containers packed tight. I am not kidding. Living in Utah you see absolute complete desert landscapes where they are watering in the middle of the day growing alfalfa. Much of this is packed up and shipped off to China. 80 percent of the water use in Utah is farms. Not farms growing fruit or vegetables, or even really cattle people are going to eat (most is really low grade beef). It is growing alfalfa and shipping it out of state.
Their solutions at reducing watering lawns and silly things like that is not even going to have a blip of an affect while agriculture uses this vast majority, and industry uses another good chunk. We are literally putting all of our efforts into the smallest percentage of consumer, and doing nothing to the largest. A ten percent drop in person usage will not have a significant impact, while the same in agriculture would be massive.
Simply enact a law saying you can not ship alfalfa out of the state it was grown in and you will solve our water problems overnight. It won't be quite so profitable anymore...
Their solutions at reducing watering lawns and silly things like that is not even going to have a blip of an affect while agriculture uses this vast majority, and industry uses another good chunk. We are literally putting all of our efforts into the smallest percentage of consumer, and doing nothing to the largest. A ten percent drop in person usage will not have a significant impact, while the same in agriculture would be massive.
Simply enact a law saying you can not ship alfalfa out of the state it was grown in and you will solve our water problems overnight. It won't be quite so profitable anymore...