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Wait till you find out about... (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Almond farming in the US uses a significant amount of water too. Like yes, it's for food, but the Almond farming in California uses more water than the cities of LA and SF combined.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Still less H2O intensive than meat production.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I would also add Alfalfa and Nestle (bottled 2$ water to the list. Really though “technology connections” says if you took the corn for ethanol and replaced it with solar you could power all the electric cars. (I could be misremembering)

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