{"id":90093,"date":"2014-01-31T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T01:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2014-01-31T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T01:03:21","slug":"gimmie-some-water-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/gimmie-some-water-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gimmie Some Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sustainable-business\/solar-power-california-water\" style=\"line-height: 21px;\">Is solar-powered desalination answer to water independence for California?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From a sustainability perspective, the upside of the technology is huge. The US federal government is currently pumping in about seven million-acre feet of water into California\u2019s Central Valley every year. Replacing a \u201cmeaningful percentage\u201d of that figure \u2013 say, 20%-30% \u2013 would be enough to have a dramatic impact on securing water security for the area, says WaterFX\u2019s Mandell.<\/p>\n<p>The implications for sustainable agriculture are also vast. After a successful proof of concept stage, Sundrop is now building a 20-acre greenhouse, which promises to produce 2.8m kg of tomatoes and 1.2m kg of pepper a year. As well as making desert land productive, Sundrop maintains that its approach reduces pesticide use, cuts food miles and results in better tasting produce.<\/p>\n<p>The arguments from a climate-change perspective appear especially attractive. Saudi Arabia\u2019s 30 or so desalination plants, for instance, currently use about 300,000 barrels of crude oil equivalent a day. The trend in other Gulf countries, as well as in Algeria and Libya, is similar. \u201cThe status quo is not sustainable,\u201d concludes the World Bank, which describes the elimination of fossil fuel use in desalination as \u201ccritical\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My home state of California is proudly leading the way to a sustainable future by building on our homegrown agriculture and technology industries.<\/p>\n<p>The next step will be using the vast power of the pacific ocean for tidal energy and clean water via solar desalinization.<\/p>\n<p>If its good enough for Saudi Arabia, it\u2019s good enough for America!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is solar-powered desalination answer to water independence for California? From a sustainability perspective, the upside of the technology is huge. The US federal government is currently pumping in about seven million-acre feet of water into California\u2019s Central Valley every year. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/gimmie-some-water-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hempfarm.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}