Purportedly creates dead zones in the ocean.

I would say unless you owned a Flagstaff house in 1999, because it's probably worth several times more now... but, I'm sure Austin is about the same or even crazier.

Seems like they could dump it in the desert. Or... use it. It's not like salt isn't useful.

If it's the Southwest, put it on nacho chips. Problem solved.

After I water my lawns Im going to pressure wash my driveway

Desalinization plants are economical as far as residents taking showers. But that, contrary to the hype, has never been the issue.

It takes over a gallon of water, depending on which web site you look at, to grow a single almond. Not one pound. Not one can.

One freaking almond.

You can't economically use desal for agriculture.

Wow. If true, that seems absurdly wasteful.

I'm willing to roll the dice

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That's ridiculous. I think I've heard that before, but at what point do we accept that almond's aren't a good use of resources and move to better crops?

Israeli olive and sesame farmers would beg to differ ;)

Yeah, almonds come from seriously thirsty trees. Weed is a seriously thirsty plant. They will need multiple desal plants. Each will require way more power than the CA grid can support, so that means new power plants as well. Ain't gonna happen.

I had a dairy farm by my house until maybe a year ago. A milking cow drinks 30-50 gallons per day. It is probably worse than that due to how damn hot it is.

10 gallons of milk needs 50 gallons of water

Nuclear power plants on the moon. It's going to happen eventually.

I've seen that stat a lot and it kind of seems like a conspiracy from the dairy industry who hates nut milk just to call out almonds.. I mean, I did a quick Google and saw a graphic that it takes a 3rd of a gallon to produce one grape, a few gallons per walnut, a few gallons for a head of lettuce that's like 5 calories.

It makes me wonder how many gallons I use to water my peach tree, because it's a lot and wouldn't be negligible per peach.

So leave my almond milk alone! :cuss: ;)

I only drink human breast milk

It sounds like Waldorf salads are destroying the world.

I wonder how much water a hamburger requires.