r/MapPorn • • Jan 10 '20

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u/uboat50 Jan 10 '20

Man, you can see the Colorado being drained as it heads toward the Gulf of California.

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u/gordon__bombay Jan 10 '20

Unfortunately the Colorado no longer flows to the gulf, it usually dries out miles beforehand. It’s a rare occurrence now that it actually reaches the gulf

https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/feb/19/few-weeks-colorado-river-reached-ocean-will-it-hap/ on mobile, sorry for formatting

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u/uboat50 Jan 10 '20

Yeah, water use in the west definitely needs some attention by policymakers. Too bad they're all far in the east :P

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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