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Comment on Arizona's solar-over-canal project will tackle its major drought issue

squirrelwithnut@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Arizona and the entire South West don’t have a drought problem. They have an aridification problem. While this canal project is a good move in general and we should have been doing it years ago, there is no solving the over-population of a desert. One look at Colorado River basin and its reservoirs is enough to know there is nothing we can do to fix it.

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BeautifulMind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
With any luck pretty soon they’ll look at alfalfa farming in the desert too

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- ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Why the fuck are humans so stupid that we decided to grow one of the thirstiest crops in the fucking desert.
  
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  - pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Because entrenched, and exceptionally wealthy interests. Reading about how about in CA there are tons of Colorado River fed foreign owned farms growing alfalfa to export to the middle east is the definition of capitalist success…the profit of a commodity has been made the most efficient; acquired cheaply for something otherwise impossible with international arbitrage as the medium.
    
    Every time someone asks people in the southwest to take shorter showers show them this: www.foodandwaterwatch.org/…/california-water/
    
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    ieightpi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    We should probably sttart making the word ‘greed’ synonymous to dumb, stupid, ect. Cuz it sure seems that greedy people just have a super low IQ.
    
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- PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  They already do.
  
  Also, all those new Intel wafer plants near Phoenix.
  
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  - Poach@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And Samsung and TSMC and others
    
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Sludgehammer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah… but sometimes you’ve gotta accept that a band-aid is all you can do. While this doesn’t fix the underlying problems, if it works it’ll provide more water and low carbon energy, which is better than nothing.

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- DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  if it works it’ll provide more water
  
  Unfortunately they will just use even more then, so the “shortage” will be maintained.
  
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  - ours@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    The “one more lane” of water supply.
    
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