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.

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    You can click the export stats. Almonds are #1 export, followed by dairy. Dairy exports were about $2B out of $10B produced. So roughly 75% of dairy is not exported.

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      Well, I did a little analysis and almonds sure are a consumer of water in California, but I’d encourage you to look into the water, land use and emissions impact of cattle and dairy, I know, you are worried about exporting away all your water, but there are larger impact agricultural products and you said everything should be scrutinized more, so here is more scrutiny.

      tl;dr: In 2022, California used this much water on these agricultural products: Almonds: 9 billion m³ Beef: 20 billion m³ Cheese: 4.4 billion m³ Butter: 1.3 billion m³

      This doesn’t factor in other dairy products because the data doesn’t line up well enough to compute and I’m just some internet user, so what do I know?

      Anyways land use is crazy, beef alone used 1 million acres, while all other field crops used 627 thousand acres. (Source: cdfa stat review)

      2022                  1000 pounds  metric ton              m3 water usage
      Almonds (with shell)  2565000      1163476.36759503        9362494330.0372
      Butter                685953       311146.239680668        1346018632.85857
      Cheese                2460538      1116092.71523179        4402985761.5894
      Sour Cream            199309       90405.9693368412
      Yogurt                377839       171386.646103602
      Milk Nonfat           860246       390205.02585503
      Milk condensed        108237       49095.9811303638
      Dry Buttermilk        60090        27256.6451964075
      Ice Cream             77939        35352.8984849859
      Lowfat Ice cream      36140        16392.9964619432
      Cattle Calves         2197765      996899.664338202        20154320513.9254
       
      Water use (m3 /ton)   green        blue              grey  total
      Milk                  647          60                89    796
      Butter                3519         324               483   4326
      Milk Powder           3007         277               413   3697
      Cheese                3196         310               439   3945
      Almonds (with shell)  4632         1908              1507  8047
      Beef                  19102        525               590   20217
       
      References:
      https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2022_Exports_Publication.pdf
      https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2022-2023_california_agricultural_statistics_review.pdf
      https://www.waterfootprint.org/resources/Report-48-WaterFootprint-AnimalProducts-Vol1.pdf
      https://waterfootprint.org/resources/Report47-WaterFootprintCrops-Vol1.pdf