Opinion: New housing is not an issue in San Gabriel Valley water predicament
As our own editorial of Tuesday notes, about 50% of the water in California is for the rivers and their fishes. About 40% goes to agriculture. Of the remaining 10%, 5.7% is used by residences, mostly indoors, but a great deal of that for landscaping. If I were to replace my pride and joy, the 80-year-old Meyer lemon tree in our front yard, productive enough to supply the whole block with citrus, with a granny flat, that housing would use less water than that tree.
-Written by Larry Wilson, Pasadena Star News editor.