I should point out that my family’s been farming since before the US was the US. I’m not some ignorant city slicker.
The only thing I disagree with is the judgment/ assessment that anyone here has made assumptions or is just too ignorant to have a POV. It’s a complex issue can’t be contained in a paragraph or even several and believe it or not I come from a pretty informed and involved place.
Of course I acknowledge mitigating the waste is part of the solution and not the solution entirely. That said, from what I’ve seen the numbers on “waste” are pretty staggering and could be a large part of the solution.
We’ll sure as fuck need many more wells dug, desalinization plants built, better water treatment/ recycling, but the flip side is also true. We can engineer the fuck out of the water problem until we drowning in water, but if we keep wasting water on lawns and high demand crops, while not improving water management, we are just going to keep needing more and more and more water. Backing us up into a corner repeatedly.
We both know there will be lots of losers here no matter what, but we need to ensure society as a whole is the winner and not a handful of profiteers.
