On Sun, 24 May 2015 16:35:36 -0600, Cabrito del Bosque
> wrote:

> Or maybe it was in February, when a headline in Mother Jones blared, "It
> takes how much water to grow an almond?!" (Profoundly misleading answer:
> 1.1 gallons per nut.)

I think that was also when they (not necessarily Mother Jones) told us
that the orchards are irrigated by flooding. I don't know how much
truth there is to that though.

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