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FakeNoose

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3. Why isn't desalinated water used for crops?

Reply to Bayard (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 8, 2021, 07:59 PM

Jun 2021

It's lower quality than the mountain spring water, am I right? The good water should be used for drinking water and other human use. Let the lower quality water be used for farming.

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It would help Bayard Jun 2021 #1

Start building de-salination plants. We should have started years ago. demosincebirth Jun 2021 #2

Why isn't desalinated water used for crops? FakeNoose Jun 2021 #3

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Prolly gunna get intelligence shamed for saying this hydrolastic Jun 2021 #5

Many actions become a solution. The water that runs down the LA River alone Hortensis Jun 2021 #6