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minus-squareJoYo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·2 years agothe west coast is especially fucked. there was never enough ground water and there never will be.
minus-squarehglman@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up10·2 years agoCentral planes as well, there is an enormous amount of crop land that will no longer support farming.
minus-squareErtebolle@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoIt’s not like it’s getting zero rainfall, it’s just not getting enough to support its current levels of crop output; they were growing cereal crops in the Great Plains long before we figured out industrial-scale groundwater irrigation.
minus-squarehglman@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoNo, the western plains requires irrigation. Plains as a biome exist because rainfall is marginal. https://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/-/media/projects/dwfi/resource-documents/reports-and-working-papers/past-present-and-future-of-irrigation-on-the-us-great-plains.pdf
minus-squareFranzia@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·2 years agoIdk fam there were some huge rivers in California not that long ago. Arizona and Nevada are much more iffy.
minus-squareJoYo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agorivers != ground water the water table dispute has been going on since the early 1800s.
the west coast is especially fucked.
there was never enough ground water and there never will be.
Central planes as well, there is an enormous amount of crop land that will no longer support farming.
It’s not like it’s getting zero rainfall, it’s just not getting enough to support its current levels of crop output; they were growing cereal crops in the Great Plains long before we figured out industrial-scale groundwater irrigation.
No, the western plains requires irrigation. Plains as a biome exist because rainfall is marginal.
https://waterforfood.nebraska.edu/-/media/projects/dwfi/resource-documents/reports-and-working-papers/past-present-and-future-of-irrigation-on-the-us-great-plains.pdf
Idk fam there were some huge rivers in California not that long ago. Arizona and Nevada are much more iffy.
rivers != ground water
the water table dispute has been going on since the early 1800s.