SF leaders hate Trump enough they just voted to limit the city's water rather than do this

[blastoff]

What a superb idea. Help the fish and wildlife. Let the people of San Francisco drink each other's piss.

Dilly Dilly!!!

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

Hopefully they’ll all go on hunger strikes in protest of trump and die off.

 

[flacaltenn]

Crops can be watered by a drip system, which is costly to install, and for decades drip systems have proved to be more effective, more ecological and require much less water to produce a plentiful and healthy crop yield.

Who told you that part of the story? The drip lines get torn up every year and need MASSIVE maintenance. Not only that -- but BECAUSE it doesn't have wide coverage -- it KILLS biologic activity in the SOIL in areas not reached by the drips.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Crops can be watered by a drip system, which is costly to install, and for decades drip systems have proved to be more effective, more ecological and require much less water to produce a plentiful and healthy crop yield.

Who told you that part of the story? The drip lines get torn up every year and need MASSIVE maintenance. Not only that -- but BECAUSE it doesn't have wide coverage -- it KILLS biologic activity in the SOIL in areas not reached by the drips.

Really, you forgot to post the evidence, and nothing I could find verified your fear mongering. See:

Drip Irrigation

 

[JimBowie1958]

Let them dehydrate. Show them that in a socialist, liberal world, only the rich and the foreigner will fill their glass.

Why do conservatives want to save libtards from their own stupidity?

Fuck SF, let them slowly die from dehydration caused by their own stupidity, I dont care what these morons do to themselves and their own children any more.

It just makes for fewer of them and less problems for our children trying to rectify the damage of four decades of libtarded idiocy..

 

[flacaltenn]

Crops can be watered by a drip system, which is costly to install, and for decades drip systems have proved to be more effective, more ecological and require much less water to produce a plentiful and healthy crop yield.

Who told you that part of the story? The drip lines get torn up every year and need MASSIVE maintenance. Not only that -- but BECAUSE it doesn't have wide coverage -- it KILLS biologic activity in the SOIL in areas not reached by the drips.

Really, you forgot to post the evidence, and nothing I could find verified your fear mongering. See:

Drip Irrigation

Guess you missed the parts (or didn't read them) that validate most everything I've said.

Drip irrigation is the slow, even application of low pressure water to soil and plants using plastic tubing placed directly at the plants root zone.

Long term "full farm" coverage with drip irrigation will KILL the surrounding the soil by thwarting the essential biological activity that is required to keep MASSIVE farmland from reverting to dust bowls.

There are some disadvantages to drip irrigation. For example:

Drip irrigation systems typically cost $500 to $1,200 or more per acre. Part of the cost is a capital investment useful for several years, and part is annual. Systems can be more elaborate and costly than they need to be.

Growers new to drip irrigation might want to start with a relatively simple system on a small acreage.

Drip tape or tubing must be managed to avoid leaking or plugging. Drip emitters are easily plugged by silt or other particles not filtered out of the irrigation water. Emitter plugging also can be caused by algae growing in the tape or by chemical deposits at the emitter.

You might need to redesign your weed control program. Drip irrigation might be unsatisfactory if herbicides need sprinkler irrigation for activation. However, drip irrigation can enhance weed control in arid climates by keeping much of the soil surface dry. Tape depth must be chosen carefully for compatibility with operations such as cultivation and weeding.

Drip tape causes extra cleanup costs after harvest. You'll need to plan for drip tape disposal, recycling or reuse.

Was only intended for small-scale "plot level" farming. It's a BEAR to maintain. Having to add many days of spring/fall maintenance to the very narrow planting window that most large scale farms have..

In fact, there's a lot of money in PUSHING this "simple greenie" fix. But like most MOST "simple greenie fixes" there's more hype than substance. The science is not settled. Neither is the economics. Because of most of glowing claim scientific claims come from experimental "plot size" studies or subsistence level farming experiences.

Drip Irrigation for Agriculture: Untold Stories of Efficiency, Innovation and Development, 1st Edition (Hardback) - Routledge

Initially associated with hi-tech irrigated agriculture, drip irrigation is now being used by a much wider range of farmers in emerging and developing countries. This book documents the enthusiasm, spread and use of drip irrigation systems by smallholders but also some disappointments and disillusion faced in the global South. It explores and explains under which conditions it works, for whom and with what effects. The book deals with drip irrigation 'behind the scenes', showcasing what largely remain 'untold stories'.

Most research on drip irrigation use plot-level studies to demonstrate the technology’s ability to save water or improve efficiencies and use a narrow and rather prescriptive engineering or economic language. They tend to be grounded in a firm belief in the technology and focus on the identification of ways to improve or better realize its potential. The technology also figures prominently in poverty alleviation or agricultural modernization narratives, figuring as a tool to help smallholders become more innovative, entrepreneurial and business minded. Instead of focusing on its potential, this book looks at drip irrigation-in-use, making sense of what it does from the perspectives of the farmers who use it, and of the development workers and agencies, policymakers, private companies, local craftsmen, engineers, extension agents or researchers who engage with it for a diversity of reasons and to realize a multiplicity of objectives. While anchored in a sound engineering understanding of the design and operating principles of the technology, the book extends the analysis beyond engineering and hydraulics to understand drip irrigation as a sociotechnical phenomenon that not only changes the way water is supplied to crops but also transforms agricultural farming systems and even how society is organized.

THere it is.. Visions of "changing how society is organized".. WHY? Because BIG FARMA is bad. And cute, small and cuddly farming is a beautiful thing man. Pass the roach..