Originally Posted by
MolliesMaster
Yea, because trying to create a green oasis for millions in the middle of barren dry land isn't the issue at all.
Cut down all the almond trees and stop watering the golf courses. We don't need almond milk or the people that drink it. And golf, well, there's enough fruit loops running around we don't need to keep encouraging that.
Exactly. I can only speak of the 4+ years of direct experience here in SE Wyoming. My town and the surrounding countryside has great ag production due to the well thought out and engineered irrigation system they built many moons ago. It snows in the mountains, and the Snowmelt feeds the system. It’s been intense drought for the years I’ve been here, yet the farmers and rsnchers Are pouring the water to the crops from May through harvest with no issues. The grasslands could use more rain, but the ag is limited to what the irrigation system will water.
If folks decided to expand the ag around this town by double and rework the irrigation system, I’m sure there would be water shortage issues. If someone discovered an “endangered” bubba-lipped snail darter in one of the rivers they divert from and laws were to be passed that protect said minnow, I’m sure there would be problems.
You can not have uncontrolled urbanization in piss poor habitat based on a watershed’s boon years and expect it to work out for everyone during periods of bust. I might be wrong, but that’s what makes sense to me.
“I can’t wait ‘till I’m grown” is the stupidest @!#* I ever said!
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