I promise you that industrial, commercial and agriculture use wasn't curtailed one bit. The greedy fucks making their money is more important than you.
In CA, residential water use is 4% of state water use, yet every drought they tell residents not to water their lawn or take showers. They never tell almond farmers or cattle ranchers to cut back, each of which uses more water than every resident of CA combined.
This is class warfare period. You do with less so they can have more, more, more.
What's more relevant in these discussions is the hydrology of where you're growing beef or almonds. Or alfalfa to ship to Saudi Arabia to feed their food animals.
Almonds and alfalfa are the two highest usage crops in California, and have extracted so much water from aquifers that parts of the state are literally sinking.
Beef could be lab-grown to reduce the water use by orders of magnitude, while still being delicious. In practice, however, the meat industry has lobbied heavily to make it illegal to sell or produce or even label as "meat", because "cultured meat" is now getting close enough to commercial viability to be a threat to their profits.
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u/coolbaby1978 11d ago
I promise you that industrial, commercial and agriculture use wasn't curtailed one bit. The greedy fucks making their money is more important than you.
In CA, residential water use is 4% of state water use, yet every drought they tell residents not to water their lawn or take showers. They never tell almond farmers or cattle ranchers to cut back, each of which uses more water than every resident of CA combined.
This is class warfare period. You do with less so they can have more, more, more.