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[-] lunarshot@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago
[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

More than just Arizona, this is true of almost the entire American West

>Correspondingly, our hydrologic modelling reveals that cattle-feed irrigation is the leading driver of flow depletion in one-third of all western US sub-watersheds; cattle-feed irrigation accounts for an average of 75% of all consumptive use in these 369 sub-watersheds. During drought years (that is, the driest 10% of years), more than one-quarter of all rivers in the western US are depleted by more than 75% during summer months (Fig. 2 and Supplementary Fig. 2) and cattle-feed irrigation is the largest water use in more than half of these heavily depleted rivers

https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=wffdocs

this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2023
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