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YesYNot,

Where can I get another bucket? Forget it. I would still have an empty bucket.

Hey You. Are you serious? Did you read the article?

YesYNot says

The 'water use' of the farm is the net amount removed from the water source. Drip irrigation systems increase the net water use per acre. They do this through increasing yield, so water use per unit product is not increased.

Either way, who's bright idea was it to do farming in a friggin desert?

^They started when they found a big underground aquifer in 1903. Probably someone back then. It really wasn't a bad idea at the time. I'm sure that they will do less and less as they run out of water.

Roberto has a point that the farming will be cut before the cost to residents is driven sky high.

YesYNot,

I can't read. Sorry you missed the symbolism that Arizona might be looking at an empty bucket.

They already cut water to Imperial county farmers and routed it to San Diego residents. Though I wonder why they can't build a pipeline from say WA and/or OR and bring it down here. MS and LA too have surplus water-they could route it to TX-that is reeling under a drought.

Oops-I guess public works/big govt??

HEY YOU says

I can't read. Sorry you missed the symbolism that Arizona might be looking at an empty bucket.

OK, I guess I still am not sure exactly what you were talking about, but that is fine.

“the Southwest must cut its water use by about SIXTY percent to bring water supplies into balance, given projections of longer, deeper droughts in the decades ahead”

http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/2012/sep/21/studies-show-southwest-faces-water-shortage/

WAH WAH WAH doomers QQQing about everything? Listen up!! Take the time you post all this water stuff in the LAND (real estate duh) section and instead spend it FANTASIZING about your future riches from buying as many houses as you can and renting them out to idiots you will be rich in no time. You gotta trust the duck on this one, it’s a can’t miss strategy! CHOOBACHOOBACHOO (Also Patrick please delete this thread it is Liable!)

"Increased groundwater pumping to support population growth in south-central Arizona (including the Tucson and Phoenix areas) has resulted in water-level declines of between 300 and 500 feet in much of the area."

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/gwdepletion.html