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I think that’s misleading because although livestock don’t directly use a lot of water…

Irrigation of crops is the largest offstream use of water in the CRB, averaging 85% of total offstream use

And a lot of those crops are no doubt food for livestock.

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reducing irrigation is absolute. it doesnt matter if it was 100% for human consumption, it must go down.

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Agreed, but making it go down by eliminating the large part of it used for livestock feed would no doubt drastically help, which was jack’s original (and valid) point.

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10 points

Damn if only we had a centrally planned economy that could mobilize industry to build out water-efficient irrigation systems across the entire effected area. Alas, that would be communism!

Capitalism is the dumbest economic system.

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