low rainfall Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 11 Jun 2014 21:23:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 California Drought is Bad News for Crops https://www.greenoptimistic.com/california-drought-bad-news-crops-20140611/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/california-drought-bad-news-crops-20140611/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2014 21:19:03 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=47954 Do you realize that 80% of the water used in California is by farms? For decades, when the state actually got a good amount of rainfall annually, this wasn’t a big deal. However, now we are in the driest 30-month stretch in California’s recorded history, and that means big problems for the price of your […]

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