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minus-square@atempuser23link35•1 day agoThat doesn’t happen. This is a favorite talking point of farmers who live in a desert in the middle of California when the government doesn’t subsidize their farms as much as they want for more profits.
minus-squaresp3ctr4llinkfedilinkEnglish28•edit-224 hours agohttps://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/06/colorado-river-deal-west-water/ Apparently farmers have been paying $20 for an acre foot of water since… 2011. That is about 325,900 gallons of water, for $20. https://www.ladwp.com/account/customer-service/water-rates/schedule-residential Meanwhile, if you live in a house in LA, you are charged $2.095 for every 748 gallons of water. 325,900 / $20 = 16,295 gallons of water for $1 748 / $2.095 ~= 357 gallons of water for $1 So…farmers use 80% of the water, and are charged 45.6x less per gallon than an LA resident. Or, a farmer pays about ¢2.2, or $0.022 to recieve the same amount of water an LA resident pays $1.00 for. Literally pennies on the dollar level subsidy.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•20 hours agoHey now, stealing water from the Owens Valley ain’t cheap /s
That doesn’t happen. This is a favorite talking point of farmers who live in a desert in the middle of California when the government doesn’t subsidize their farms as much as they want for more profits.
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/06/colorado-river-deal-west-water/
Apparently farmers have been paying $20 for an acre foot of water since… 2011.
That is about 325,900 gallons of water, for $20.
https://www.ladwp.com/account/customer-service/water-rates/schedule-residential
Meanwhile, if you live in a house in LA, you are charged $2.095 for every 748 gallons of water.
325,900 / $20 = 16,295 gallons of water for $1
748 / $2.095 ~= 357 gallons of water for $1
So…farmers use 80% of the water, and are charged 45.6x less per gallon than an LA resident.
Or, a farmer pays about ¢2.2, or $0.022 to recieve the same amount of water an LA resident pays $1.00 for.
Literally pennies on the dollar level subsidy.
Hey now, stealing water from the Owens Valley ain’t cheap /s