Opinion: Doomsday or nuts: The H2O case for banning almond trees in California
In California, with a population of 39 million people, the problem has the potential of becoming especially dire. The governor, Gavin Newsom, recently announced a $8 billion spending package which attacks California’s water scarcity problems from four different angles … The federal government is also adding billions of dollars more through spending in the Inflation Reduction Act. It is an enormous amount of money to spend on California’s water scarcity problem. But what if all of these billions of dollars are ignoring the elephant in the room? What if there are several easy solutions that could save trillions of gallons of water per year?
-Written by Marshall Brain, a writer and contributor to WRAL TechWire.Related articles:
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