"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
...
> On 5/25/2015 2:27 PM, sf wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> If they do, what happens to all the water? Some would go into the ground
> where it is purified and finds itself in a well as drinking water.


yep, about 40% or more in the San Joaquin Valley.