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What about things like Nestle siphoning off 58 million gallons a year from public land near LA for nearly no cost in order to bottle Arrowhead water?


That's roughly enough water to grow 50-100 acres of alfalfa. There's a million acres of alfalfa grown in California. And more of other water intensive crops. Yeah it's shitty but it's not a root cause, it's a rounding error compared to agriculture.


I hadn't even heard of that, but that's ridiculous. Definite outright ban of water exports, no exceptions!




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