Quote:
Originally Posted by daepp
No, I get your larger point about the environmental wasted water.
I am aware of at least a few dams built by citrus farmers in So Cal to ensure stable, year round water and just wondered/assumed about others.
Regarding your/my last point, then you're suggesting that it's physically possible, on short notice, to shift ag water to municipal use?
For example, where I live in So Cal we pump all of our drinking water out of an aquifer that's replenished by the local mountain watershed via spreading. It's hard for me to imagine the physical work that would be required to fill our storage tanks by other means, but I have no expertise in this area.
|
Yes, Ag and municipalities share the same water system. There is no such thing as "Ag water" or "city water".
Some of your water is watershed. The rest is percolation from rainfall. If your property tax bill includes an irrigation district, then you have one close by.
P.S.: around here, if a farmer were to build a dam on any river, stream, creek, etc he would be in huge trouble. You have all of the downstream riparian water users for one, and the State and Feds on you for another.
Edit: One exception: L.A. Dept Water and Power did buy the Owens Valley water rights, so that is "city water" I suppose.