re: #144 William Barnett-Lewis

says a bit about when people try to have too many families live where there isn’t enough water. LA needs to lose all the water they’re stealing.

Actually, the rest of the U.S. needs to start growing more of its own fruits, nuts and vegetables. California produces nearly half of the nation’s supply of those things along with a significant percentage of its dairy products. CA does so by virtue of highly subsidized water: 40% of CA’s water goes to agriculture, 10% goes to municipal and other non-agricultural users, 48% is used for environmental purposes (31% to wild and scenic rivers, 8.5% to instream flows, 6.5% to required Sacramento Delta outflow, and 2% to managed wetlands).

Average US per capita water usage is 152 gallons. Average per capita water usage in Los Angeles is 129 gallons.

The fire danger stems not from inadequate water supplies, it stems from the built up, and now quite dry fuel in our foothills, canyons and mountainsides combined with seasonal high winds.

Get your Los Angeles hate on all you want to, we’re not the ones using up all of the water.