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0 pointsmdavis68903y ago0 comments

3. What is purple pipe? 4. They have to get their water from somewhere, and clearly there is not anywhere else to get it. Wells are not the problem - farming is the problem. 5. SoCal and Desert communities don't use a meaningful amount of water. This is the whole point. ALL communities, businesses, industry, etc - put together - use very little of the water. Nothing is helped by limiting those uses of water. Only farming matters.

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boringg3y ago

No, wells are part of the problem.

Purple pipe is recycled water.

Annual rainfall is like your surplus/deficit - Aquifer levels are how much money you have in the bank. Unregulated wells tap the aquifer and don't allow it to replenish which then dries the ground causing it sink amongst other problems.

Have you ever driven through all of California - Ag valley, desert, norcal, east of the sierra?

5. Desert communities don't use meaningful amount of water - what are you talking about?

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