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To: Sam who wrote (1053)	4/17/2014 10:18:18 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (1) of 26769

As others pointed out, I live in the SF Bay Area. Our water is from Hetch Hetchy dam North of Yosemite. Some of it comes from ground water too... The water would run out rivers exiting the SF Bay into the ocean but it is mixed with salt water by then so we trap some at the source to have very clean water. Most of us in N. California pay about 10x per volume what the farmers pay to grow food that is shipped to other states and countries. For example, my last water bill was $47 for 4 CCF (low since I turn garden water off in the winter when they measure how much you use for the sewer charges) and it was $85 in the summer and fall for 10 CCF. How much do you pay for a similar amount of water? I'd gladly pay a bit extra for food to not have to subsidize the water to grow food for the rest of the World (we send a ton of rice to Asia...) Almond milk is a huge hit with vegans and heath nuts (I use it mostly now) but it takes a gallon of water to grow a single almond... Of course, it takes a lot of water to raise a cow to get milk too... so it would be interesting to compare water needed for a half gallon of almond milk vs cows milk. FWIW, I own GE and think it is a good water play....

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