California Almond Water Usage: Updated — California Water Impact Network
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Given the combination of their vast acreages, high water requirements, and export crop status, almonds are a controversial crop in California. As an export crop, they play no role in national food security: 70% of the annual harvest is shipped overseas. Here are some basic facts about almonds and wa

70% of those almonds are exported. But you should take a pathetic dribble of a shower.

For those who don’t know, the flow restriction plug can be removed from most shower heads. But you didn’t hear it from me.

  • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
    4·
    2 months ago

    Every drop counts. On the plus side when you remove the flow restriction from your shower, you never need to shower more than 5 minutes, because you’re being pummeled with an absolutely luxurious deluge. Warm up faster, rinse off faster. It’s not even clear to me that it uses more water.

    • 0^2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      1·
      2 months ago

      My pressure is so high it stings without it, I mean that’s one way to get clean by grinding off the top layer of flesh.

      • lurklurk@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        If American showers allowed adjustment of both pressure and temperature like most modern European ones, you wouldn’t have this issue

      • scutiger@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        I didn’t like the trickle that I got, so I tried removing it, and it was high flow but not enough pressure, so I just used a drill to enlarge the hole a little bit and it’s much better.