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minus-squaresp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-221 hours ago The reality is that farms pay pennies for multiple Olympic sized pools worth of water. My whole comment doing the math was inspired by me hearing people saying stuff like this, thinking it must be hyperbole… Your statement technically is, an olympic swimming pool is about 660k gallons… That would cost a farmer about $40. But it would cost an LA resident about $1850. Fucking bonkers. Like… I can see some level of subsidy, but not nearly 50x.
minus-squareatempuser23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·14 hours agoIt’s only 50x of the water that residences are consuming is properly priced. Other places with much more water available pay more than Southern and central Californians pay.
My whole comment doing the math was inspired by me hearing people saying stuff like this, thinking it must be hyperbole…
Your statement technically is, an olympic swimming pool is about 660k gallons…
That would cost a farmer about $40.
But it would cost an LA resident about $1850.
Fucking bonkers.
Like… I can see some level of subsidy, but not nearly 50x.
It’s only 50x of the water that residences are consuming is properly priced. Other places with much more water available pay more than Southern and central Californians pay.