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Austin declared new drought restrictions in August. Water use stayed the same. (www.kut.org)

submitted 1 year ago by reddig33 to c/austin

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If you don’t enforce the law, people don’t obey the law. Imagine that. Also being in a constant state of drought doesn’t help.

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[–] halcyoncmdr 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah every time these water use restrictions are announced they never apply to businesses. Residential use is almost always a fraction of the water usage.

And then you look at the drought areas with consistent water use restrictions being needed every year, and the agriculture in the area is growing extremely high water usage crops like alfalfa and almonds.

A single almond takes 3.2 gallons of water to grow to harvest. A pound of almonds takes about 377 gallons of water. That's not a crop that should be allowed and encouraged in drought prone regions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's not a crop that should be allowed and encouraged in drought prone regions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haven't they been giving water to rice farmers? According to wikipedia "It is estimated that it takes about 2,500 litres (660 US gal) of water need to be supplied to account for all of these outflows and produce 1 kilogram (2 lb 3 oz) of rice." Right up there with almonds. This might have all been fine when the population of Austin was 200,000.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of all water usage, residential is ~2/3rds and commercial is 1/3rd. It's probably the same in Austin. Go research it.

Everyone needs to conserve water.