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TigressDem

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1. In a drought, you can only limit water use by so much.

Reply to hunter (Original post)

Mon Aug 29, 2022, 04:56 PM

Aug 2022

These are farmers who need water for crops.

Maybe if they went to underground hydroponics that would protect crops from excessive heat while they could have skylights for the plants and the water needed would be a lot less?

It also says that there have been efforts to "recharge" the ground water and that the rebuild of the canal will help.

SO IF rebuilding the canal makes the system more self sustaining and less vulnerable to the problem, that makes it more of a long term solution.

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Construction crews race to build replacement canal as Central Valley sinks [View all] hunter Aug 2022 OP

In a drought, you can only limit water use by so much. TigressDem Aug 2022 #1

Apparently the major recent cause of subsidence on this 30+ mile stretch Hortensis Aug 2022 #2

Many of these farms are living on borrowed time. Global warming is here to stay. hunter Aug 2022 #3

They know it, Hunter. A lot more profoundly than us at this point. Hortensis Aug 2022 #4