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There is no water left to conserve & other Cal-water management myths explained
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There is no water left to conserve & other Cal-water management myths explained

Conservation means much more water for much less money if we treat it as a new source and get real about future demand

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Nov 25, 2022
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One of the most frequently used clichés invoked by hard-core advocates of big ocean desalination plants over the past 20 years is, “We can’t conserve our way out of this drought”—said without mentioning drought’s relationship to climate change or providing data to back up the assertion.

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