Saltwater corrodes firefighting equipment and may harm ecosystems, especially those like the chaparral shrublands around Los Angeles that aren’t normally exposed to seawater. Gardeners know that small amounts of salt – added, say, as fertilizer – does not harm plants, but excessive salts can stress and kill plants.
This is a shortsighted, unintelligent comment.
Please explain.
The only reason that most of the southwest is short on water is that the water rights in California were decided in the late 1800s allowing farmers in the central valley to use most of the water that we have available to us in the southern part of the state. They have decided to plant water hungry crops, such as alfalfa, in a desert so that they use their allotment every year and don’t lose access to “their” water. Some of the cities have decided to sell “excess” water to Nestlé to be bottled at a rate of cents per 1000 gallons of water.
The US is literally starving, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Mexico of water because of all these bullshit imaginary contracts that haven’t been revisited since the 1800s
Cogently put. Thank you!
He was talking about his own post