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by quickthrowman 4 days ago
There’s around 1M acres of alfalfa grown in California each year. Each acre requires around 5 acre-feet of water, or 1,629,250 gallons per acre.

1,000,000 acres * 1,629,250 gallons per acre = 1.629 trillion gallons of water. That’s just California.