70% of those almonds are exported. But you should take a pathetic dribble of a shower.

For those who don’t know, the flow restriction plug can be removed from most shower heads. But you didn’t hear it from me.

  • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    8 days ago

    I agree it’s a large portion. However, the big difference is that most dairy and meat produced in state is not exported. Water is a public resource, so it should raise additional alarms when the public is not benefiting from its use.

    • version_unsorted@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      8 days ago

      Top commodities for export included almonds, dairy and dairy products, pistachios, wine and walnuts.

      https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/

      It kind of seems like a lot of dairy is exported. Dairy was valued at $10.4 billion, Cattle and Calves: $3.63 billion, Almonds: $3.52 billion. I mean, unless California is consuming over 70% of $14 billion in cattle and dairy products, but exporting all the almonds.

      • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        7 days ago

        You can click the export stats. Almonds are #1 export, followed by dairy. Dairy exports were about $2B out of $10B produced. So roughly 75% of dairy is not exported.