<span style="line-height:1.4em;">Something like 7% of all California freshwater usage is used for landscaping. 77% is used for agriculture. Moving water is ridiculously energy intensive. 20% of total </span>
electrical<span style="line-height:1.4em;"> power is used to move water in California through things like the CA Aqueduct.</span>
I know it is just a 'pipe' dream. Moving water from flood areas would never work because it comes too fast. It would require massive drainage projects to capture it fast enough to help mitigate the damage. It just makes me crazy to see so much unwanted water and snow on the TV news when California needs it so badly. 20% electricity cost is nothing compared to having all vegetation die and having huge fire fighting costs.
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<p style="margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-top:0px;">The logical thing is instead of moving tons of water from wet areas, you move the finished food. But try to explain that to "local farming" global warming tree-huggers.</p>
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We just need rain. It has nothing to do with political ideology. The notion of forsaking California as a dispensable food producing region and instead trucking in finished food from elsewhere is completely naive. California is responsible for around 15% of the total US agricultural production and much of their products are not produced anywhere else.
Edit: Found this
Ranks first in total agricultural production.
Ranks first in total crops production.
Ranks second in total livestock & livestock product production.
Ranks first in production of almonds (100% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of avocados (96% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of broccoli (92% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of celery (93% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of dairy products (20% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of grapes (91% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of greenhouse/nursery (21% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of hay (14% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of lemons (89% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of lettuce (71% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of onions (31% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of peaches (54% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of pistachio nuts (100% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of plums (97% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of strawberries (83% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of tomatoes (53% of U.S. production).
Ranks first in production of walnuts (100% of U.S. production).
This makes no sense to me. The Weather Channel gets their data from the National Weather Service offices around the country. So why didn't Apple just go to them instead?
One reason is the NWS did not go to Apple and present them a plan as TWC did.
Can there be anything simpler? At a glance I can see the temperature, cloud cover, and wind speed at any point in the day, as well as where it will trend thereafter. Nothing but a graph can show that.
It's way too busy. Very poor layout of that information.
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Incredible! California must be a fertile land.
I prefer my weather information source to be wearing a sexy dress.
Incredible! California must be a fertile land.
How does California rank in baby production?
This makes no sense to me. The Weather Channel gets their data from the National Weather Service offices around the country. So why didn't Apple just go to them instead?
One reason is the NWS did not go to Apple and present them a plan as TWC did.
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Incredible! California must be a fertile land.
Hey, thanks for the really long quote including the extra line breaks¡
Really drove your point home¡
I prefer my weather information source to be wearing a sexy dress.
I do like Bri Winkler. You can download the ABC7 Los Angeles app to watch her video.
2 words, Jackie Guerrido
My pleasure!
Can there be anything simpler? At a glance I can see the temperature, cloud cover, and wind speed at any point in the day, as well as where it will trend thereafter. Nothing but a graph can show that.
It's way too busy. Very poor layout of that information.