{"id":2790,"date":"2022-09-28T20:28:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2022-09-28T20:28:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T20:28:00","slug":"hope-for-water-usage-in-the-american-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/28\/hope-for-water-usage-in-the-american-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope for water usage in the American west?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting video. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f0gN1x6sVTc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Most of the water is not being used by residents or by non-agricultural companies. It&#8217;s being used for agriculture, and specifically for agriculture aimed at feeding cows. That&#8217;s interesting. First, it means we need to stop blaming swimming pools and water fountains in Vegas. But second, this means there&#8217;s a lot of room for innovation. <\/p>\n<p>Some nags are going to say we can solve this by cutting down on our meat consumption, but there&#8217;s another and better option. Innovation! <\/p>\n<p>My understanding is that Israel has done great work in extending the reach of their water resources &#8212; using drip irrigation and other things. Rather than scolding everybody, or trying to get people to change their lifestyle, why not make a big effort to make our agriculture more efficient in its water use? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an interesting video. Most of the water is not being used by residents or by non-agricultural companies. It&#8217;s being used for agriculture, and specifically for agriculture aimed at feeding cows. That&#8217;s interesting. First, it means we need to stop blaming swimming pools and water fountains in Vegas. But second, this means there&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2022\/09\/28\/hope-for-water-usage-in-the-american-west\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hope for water usage in the American west?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2792,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions\/2792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}