Food & Water Watch has found that oil and gas operators devoured 3 billion gallons of freshwater between 2018 and 2021. Expanded nut crop acres required more than 520 billion gallons more water in 2021 than just four years prior, and alfalfa irrigation guzzles around 945 billion gallons of water per year. Mega-dairies use more than 142 million gallons per day.
Gov. Newsom must use his executive and emergency powers to stop the egregious misuse of California water by both preventing the expansion of large-scale farming operations and oil and gas drilling, and investing in truly sustainable climate projects. If we don't do so quickly, the only thing predictable about our water supply is which industries will continue to exploit it.
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