"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Ophelia" > wrote in message
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>> "cshenk" > wrote in message
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>>> Ophelia wrote in rec.food.cooking:
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>>>> "Cabrito del Bosque" > wrote in message
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>>>> > On 5/24/2015 4:32 AM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>> > > I have noticed several people here mention California. We have
>>>> > > had a lot of stuff on tv about the lack of water there. We were
>>>> > > shown the huge reservoirs with very little water in them. They
>>>> > > were showing how people with lush grass and full swimming pools
>>>> > > were being demonised.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Is anyone here affected? It sounds very frightening!
>>>> > >
>>>> >
>>>> > The worst thing imaginable is IF this becomes part of the predicted
>>>> > megadrought in the Western US.
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.fastcoexist.com/3044538/w...s/5-things-cal
>>>> > ifornia-can-do-to-survive-a-megadrought
>>>> >
>>>> > 1. SAY GOODBYE TO THE LAWN
>>>> >
>>>> > 2. REDESIGN CITIES AS SPONGES
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>>>> > 3. RETHINK THE ALMOND
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>>>> > 4. FIX THE PIPES
>>>> >
>>>> > 5. SMARTER DESALINATION
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > They'll need to move quickly on all of the above.
>>>> >
>>>> > And we'll all need to get used to buying more produce from Mexico.
>>>>
>>>> Oh dear
>>>
>>> Ophelia, relax. He's massively overestimated the food issues for
>>> example. It could be people in *California* (southern part) might get
>>> more food from south of them but the only real effect will be the big
>>> wine industry, yet most grapes are pretty tolerant of drought,
>>> producing simply less grapes.
>>>
>>> California does have the biggest ticket sales but that is becsause they
>>> export most of it as in fancy stuff you might find on your shelves.
>>> It's not an never has been a breadbasket of the USA. Not a single
>>> product grown there in any quantity hits our top 10 food exports for
>>> example.
>>>
>>> I'm not saying it isnt serious, but neither they nor we will go hungry
>>> over California's drought.
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>> It sounds pretty serious to me
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> It is, but not to people who don't live here. It all depends on whose ox
> is getting gored in these cases.

Quite and it is ill-advised to belittle it.

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