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<blockquote data-quote="Traxion" data-source="post: 50707" data-attributes="member: 983"><p>This is the elephant in the room nobody is talking about, or not enough.&nbsp; 70% of the water going to Arizona gets used for agriculture.&nbsp; Add in ridiculous subsidies for crops like cotton and they end up watering the desert to grow crops where there should be none.&nbsp; Maybe I should plant some citrus trees, irrigate like crazy, and then setup up huge gas heaters in the winter to keep them growing?&nbsp; It just doesn't make sense, but we reward it.&nbsp; Add in residential sprawl in arid areas and you have a totally human caused water shortage.&nbsp; Areas like St. George UT are growing at a crazy pace and have no water.&nbsp; But they have golf courses like crazy that have to stay green!&nbsp; It's tough to say &quot;no&quot; in America to someone's livelihood, but some has to start.&nbsp; It's like a spending account, if you are overspending what you are putting in you will eventually run out.&nbsp; We somehow haven't figured that out with water.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Traxion, post: 50707, member: 983"] This is the elephant in the room nobody is talking about, or not enough. 70% of the water going to Arizona gets used for agriculture. Add in ridiculous subsidies for crops like cotton and they end up watering the desert to grow crops where there should be none. Maybe I should plant some citrus trees, irrigate like crazy, and then setup up huge gas heaters in the winter to keep them growing? It just doesn't make sense, but we reward it. Add in residential sprawl in arid areas and you have a totally human caused water shortage. Areas like St. George UT are growing at a crazy pace and have no water. But they have golf courses like crazy that have to stay green! It's tough to say "no" in America to someone's livelihood, but some has to start. It's like a spending account, if you are overspending what you are putting in you will eventually run out. We somehow haven't figured that out with water. [/QUOTE]

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