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Isn’t CA craziest water user the almond industry? Other than data center bullshit.
Supposedly the almond farming industry uses somewhere between several times more to dozens of times more water than data centers
Household use is 5 million acre feet/ year in CA. Almond use is 6.8 million acre feet. Alfalfa and other crops to feed cattle is about 8 million acre feet.
An acre foot is 325,851 gallons, or how much water it takes to cover an acre in a foot of water.
As long as animal agriculture exists in the state that’ll pretty much always be a bigger water user. But they’re not low water plants for sure.