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And they scapegoat the workers who are powerless, instead of the employers, like Trump.
Except, of course, Trump is trying to get them to hire workers who are not powerless, and can legally demand the minimum wage and protection under US law at least.
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In California, we're drawing down groundwater sources faster than we're replenishing them.
Is this irrigation water ground water though? That'd be pretty uncommon, no? Usually irrigation comes from nearby rivers. Again, I'm not at all an expert at this, just trying to understand the facts without the bias this article shows.
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In California, we're drawing down groundwater sources faster than we're replenishing them.
Is this irrigation water ground water though? That'd be pretty uncommon, no? Usually irrigation comes from nearby rivers. Again, I'm not at all an expert at this, just trying to understand the facts without the bias this article shows.
https://medium.californiasun.co/san-joaquin-valley-californi...
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In California, we're drawing down groundwater sources faster than we're replenishing them.
Is this irrigation water ground water though? That'd be pretty uncommon, no? Usually irrigation comes from nearby rivers. Again, I'm not at all an expert at this, just trying to understand the facts without the bias this article shows.
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You’re not gonna ship that water to California.
If the article is correct that water will become more valuable than oil, then of course you're gonna ship that water to California. The economics will mandate it. Now whether the article is correct about that prediction is another question. It's an understatement to say I'm skeptical. Desalination plants produce expensive water, but not that expensive...
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In California, we're drawing down groundwater sources faster than we're replenishing them.
Is this irrigation water ground water though? That'd be pretty uncommon, no? Usually irrigation comes from nearby rivers. Again, I'm not at all an expert at this, just trying to understand the facts without the bias this article shows.
Help me out here. Why is using such vast quantities of water necessarily a bad thing? It evaporates right back into the atmosphere and then condenses and finds its way to the rivers again and again. It doesn't disappear. It doesn't get irretrievably ruined with industrial chemicals. Is this mostly about limited capacity?
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In California, we're drawing down groundwater sources faster than we're replenishing them.
Is this irrigation water ground water though? That'd be pretty uncommon, no? Usually irrigation comes from nearby rivers. Again, I'm not at all an expert at this, just trying to understand the facts without the bias this article shows.
The ground is subsiding due to this[1]
See East Porterville[2] as an example
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_land_subsidence
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porterville,_California#Enviro...
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In California, we're drawing down groundwater sources faster than we're replenishing them.
Is this irrigation water ground water though? That'd be pretty uncommon, no? Usually irrigation comes from nearby rivers. Again, I'm not at all an expert at this, just trying to understand the facts without the bias this article shows.
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And they scapegoat the workers who are powerless, instead of the employers, like Trump.
Except, of course, Trump is trying to get them to hire workers who are not powerless, and can legally demand the minimum wage and protection under US law at least.
I guess that would do a good job at making poor Americans more competitive against undocumented workers