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Originally Posted by GGG
Desalination isn’t cost effective for agriculture use relative to drilling wells. About $1 / m^3. Nuts and Beef are something like 15000 L/kg of water. So $15 / kg to use desalinated water. Chicken is better at like 4000L/kg.
“Free” water underwrites a lot of our food infrastructure.
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If you can drill a well and have access to water, go for it.
But the reality is in California many of the aquifers are struggling as well.
What they are doing is not sustainable.
Israel has been extremely successful with water management relating to agriculture, so the solution is available.