Well but metric is a great choice for making certain easy math problems easier. Thankfully pi, e, au, c are all divisible easily in base ten as well. And it would be a shame if we had two mathematical basis for those round things on the walls, to go with the base 364.26 super set.
(I am agreeing with you, just need to get some snark out of my system :D. Metric evangelists that can’t use google make my spine itch).
And, of course, I was over-stating my position for fun.
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Using metric specifically is less important than everyone using the same system. If everyone were using the US system, it would be inconvenient in some ways (I find some aspects of it baffling) but the standardization aspect would be the most powerful argument in favour of it.
If the situation were flipped, everyone in the world except the USA using feet/inches/ounces (oh god what the hell even is an ounce anyway), I’d be arguing that the USA get with the program and abandon metric.
I’m sure it’ll happen eventually. Canada’s farther along the path than you guys, but not all that much farther.
Yea, as far as residential use California isn’t in real trouble. Going down to Israeli water usage will get them a long long long way. Just politics to do it, which will eventually yield to reality.
Agriculture really isn’t too different except that the water rights situation in the southwest is kind of what you would design if you wanted to make sure you would waste as much as possible and have as high an impact as possible from droughts.
Still, presumably, eventually the winners of the current water rights regime are such a tiny minority that the system is changed.
Um, sorry, when I said ‘SoCal’ I sorta intended that as “the urbanized coastal areas of Southern California”, not “the desert golf resorts of the Coachella Valley.” 
Guess I should have been more specific. Places on that chart like Los Angeles, Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Anaheim, San Diego.
(Note, also, that Palm Springs only has about 44k residents, versus the ~16 million or so in the coastal communities, and the PS “per capita” figures are skewed by only counting residents, not the hordes of tourists.)
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