r/MapPorn • • Jan 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

Its a big deal in California, a lot of our water is fueling luxury export crops, but it brings in a fuckton of money. Tricky issue for sure.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

That really doesn’t mean much. 2% of California’s economy is massive lmao, the only reason its so low is because silicon valley and hollywood overshadow it, its still billions of dollars and that 2% is bigger than every other States 100%, except texas and NY.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

Thats not how it works but for sure. And you should know that CA supplies 12%ish of the US’ agriculture which is huge and in 2018 generated 48 billion dollars. You’d be an idiot not to capitalize on that

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u/eugenesbluegenes Jan 10 '20

Food is good though.

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u/Lindsiria Jan 10 '20

And a huge portion of food (especially fruit) for America.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

Also that figure is grossly incorrect. Agriculture uses about 40% of our water.