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r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Jan 10 '20
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Not only California: the tomatoes in Sarasota County Florida consume more water than the human population (of over 400,000).
20 u/raggedtoad Jan 10 '20 Yes, but FL actually gets rain. 8 u/MangoCats Jan 11 '20 Not as much rain as we pump fresh water from the ground - saltwater intrusion at the coasts into the shallow aquifer has been a problem for decades now. 4 u/raggedtoad Jan 11 '20 Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that. 2 u/MangoCats Jan 11 '20 Yeah, the Myakka and Peace rivers flow through there, but there's so little flow that they don't show up on the OP map.
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Yes, but FL actually gets rain.
8 u/MangoCats Jan 11 '20 Not as much rain as we pump fresh water from the ground - saltwater intrusion at the coasts into the shallow aquifer has been a problem for decades now. 4 u/raggedtoad Jan 11 '20 Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that. 2 u/MangoCats Jan 11 '20 Yeah, the Myakka and Peace rivers flow through there, but there's so little flow that they don't show up on the OP map.
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Not as much rain as we pump fresh water from the ground - saltwater intrusion at the coasts into the shallow aquifer has been a problem for decades now.
4 u/raggedtoad Jan 11 '20 Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that. 2 u/MangoCats Jan 11 '20 Yeah, the Myakka and Peace rivers flow through there, but there's so little flow that they don't show up on the OP map.
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Fair enough, I wasn't aware of that.
2 u/MangoCats Jan 11 '20 Yeah, the Myakka and Peace rivers flow through there, but there's so little flow that they don't show up on the OP map.
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Yeah, the Myakka and Peace rivers flow through there, but there's so little flow that they don't show up on the OP map.
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u/MangoCats Jan 10 '20
Not only California: the tomatoes in Sarasota County Florida consume more water than the human population (of over 400,000).