Originally Posted By: supton
Originally Posted By: Shannow
Originally Posted By: UncleDave
......That and that each almond represents about a gallon of water.
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I always thought that number was B.$., so decided today to do the math...
4 feet of water required per acre of almonds ... 1.3M gallons of water per acre.
2670lb of kernels per acre...going to have to go metric here, and 1.2g/kernel....gives 1.2 million kernels per acre.
That's pretty close...I'm astounded.
Need to look up how 2000 gals of water turns into a gallon of milk next.
Pretty crazy.
Now why do we have to buy low flow shower heads? You'd think good hygiene ougt to cost peanuts...
[ok a peanut is not a nut and certainly not an almond, and I'm conflating unrelated things.... but that was my first thought that came to mmind. If an almond requires a gallon of water, then a gallon or two to do anything seems, well, trivial. But yes, I know, wastewater treatment is not.]
You have low flow water heads because some water rights for farms (some are generations old) receive preferential treatment.