One of many reasons I've reduce my meat consumption. Its too hard for me to give it up completely I just hope LAB grown meat becomes more available for all our sakes
Yep that's mainly what this meme is referring to. See my other comment on this post with a source talking about how it's the leading cause of water usage
More than just Arizona, this is true of almost the entire American West
>Correspondingly, our hydrologic modelling reveals that cattle-feed irrigation is the leading driver of flow depletion in one-third of all western US sub-watersheds; cattle-feed irrigation accounts for an average of 75% of all consumptive use in these 369 sub-watersheds. During drought years (that is, the driest 10% of years), more than one-quarter of all rivers in the western US are depleted by more than 75% during summer months (Fig. 2 and Supplementary Fig. 2) and cattle-feed irrigation is the largest water use in more than half of these heavily depleted rivers
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Reeek@beehaw.org · 2 pts · 3y
One of many reasons I've reduce my meat consumption. Its too hard for me to give it up completely I just hope LAB grown meat becomes more available for all our sakes
lntl@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 3y
"It's completely normal for water to be scarce in the desert."
alphapro784@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 3y
Isn’t it alfalfa that’s literally using up a very significant amount of the already very scarce water resources in the Southwest?
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 3y
Yep that's mainly what this meme is referring to. See my other comment on this post with a source talking about how it's the leading cause of water usage
lunarshot@beehaw.org · 1 pts · 3y
ah, Phoenix is that you?
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 3y
More than just Arizona, this is true of almost the entire American West
>Correspondingly, our hydrologic modelling reveals that cattle-feed irrigation is the leading driver of flow depletion in one-third of all western US sub-watersheds; cattle-feed irrigation accounts for an average of 75% of all consumptive use in these 369 sub-watersheds. During drought years (that is, the driest 10% of years), more than one-quarter of all rivers in the western US are depleted by more than 75% during summer months (Fig. 2 and Supplementary Fig. 2) and cattle-feed irrigation is the largest water use in more than half of these heavily depleted rivers
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=wffdocs