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Agriculture is the biggest user of the Colorado River, with alfalfa and other sources of livestock feed accounting for nearly half of the water consumed. Municipal water systems use about a quarter.

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    • 𝙈𝙞𝙖@quokk.auEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Proper placing of blame is hard.

      Let’s blame a minority. I heard trans people are using women’s showers causing all the water to run out.

      • BooBees@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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        2 days ago

        I heard Joe Rogan knows someone personally that saw kitty litter boxes in school class rooms for kids that identify as household pets

  • FirstCircle@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The combined reservoir system, an essential water source for cities and farms across Arizona, Nevada and Southern California, has not held so little water since 1957, when Lake Powell was still being filled.

    So it’s not like this is just another drought, “yeah, it happens, happened back in '57 too!”

    That was long before climate change brought three decades of drought, the worst for the Southwest in at least 1,200 years, scientists said.