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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
...makes one wonder how much of that water is actually used in "growing" versus how much water is being lost to evaporation.
...in the desert areas (southwest), LOTs of water is lost to evaporation just getting it from the source to the cities...and open-field irrigation is one of the worst offenders.
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Those desert areas are also close to oceans, too bad they don't make them pipe ocean water, pipe it in with black pipes and a big air gap, blow the wet air underground, instant desalination.