How the agriculture industry must adapt to megadrought in the West: Experts

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In California, farmers are being forced to transform the way they cultivate crops as megadrought that has been plaguing the region for decades intensifies.

to grow just one nut, according to Pennsylvania State University, and account for about 10% of the state's water use alone, Arohi Sharma, deputy director of regenerative agriculture for the Natural Resource Defense Council, a nonprofit, told ABC News.

MORE: Are rising water prices amid the Western megadrought inevitable? Yes, but it's complicated, experts say Almond farmers in California have since reduced the amount of water needed to grow each almond by 33% and is committed to another 20% reduction by 2025, Waycott said. The agriculture industry is one of the many sectors in California that are suffering from an antiquated water sector, experts say.

In this April 25, 2022, file photo, farm workers plant Novavine drought-resistant grapevines at a farm in Woodland, Calif.Robert Bartrop, head of global business development for SOURCE Global, a company that builds custom solutions for water needs, told ABC News he envisions a future in which the water industry decentralizes, in a way similar to the telecommunications and energy industries. In that case, investments would be made to redesign the grids to more efficiently distribute water.

 

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Massive desalination from the Pacific is the answer.

Honestly over the globe water scarcity is atmost seen everywhere...now to protect the natural resources for future generations..government needed to execute the water irrigation plans into farming lands..

Stop farming California. Move east and trying growing there instead.

Yet California declines desalination and to take measures to plan for water security. There are ways to work through a drought, but America is led by greedy fools. If they can’t profit, it won’t happen.

Animal agriculture is the biggest waste of water 💦 and crops on 🌎.Causing ClimateCrisis which is now affecting our ability to grow crops. Polyculture and undercover hydroponic growing can save valuable resources but unless Animal ag stops. our crops our food is at great risk.

When are we gonna make bottled water illegal? Bottled water and the plastic that goes into making it is one of the most environmentally damaging thing we are doing. Why haven’t private jets been make illegal? Or Mega mansions? We don’t need plastic water bottles. We do need food

Blame your local government. You live in a coastal state and they’ve had a decade to figure out desalination. Fresnel lens, elevated condensers, and tidal powered pumps. The salt Could be used to make sodium ion batteries .

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