Approx 200,000m3/day or 2400 litres per second in more meaningful terms....

You can even grow in apartments, but the smaller it is the less you can obviously grow. The solution would be food sharing, so neighbours would help each other with different types of food. Because it's indoors, you have a longer growing season and don't have to worry about winters. Of course you can't grow huge amounts, but people with bigger gardens can certainly have bigger green houses. The British Columbia climate is perfect for apples, pears, plums etc. and you can make dry fruit too.

Few people would be interested in taking up valuable space in an apartment to grow food. That would be the issue with food sharing.

I thought about growing a small garden indoors, but there is just nowhere to really do it. If I had a balcony, it would be a lot easier. (assuming the strata allowed it on balconies, some don't let you have plants on the balcony.)

I could probably fit 2 or 3 small plants in our window and that is about it.

If your growing in apartments because the environment won't support it

Then your running a negative environmental footprint move south or north

Wouldn't moving north be more difficult to grow anything?

I wasn't going to attempt to convert it...lol

As California was the reason for this topic North is an option

if your sitting in parts of BC then south is an option

If your sitting in Alberta... then you don't care

Not even those Blue Diamond smoked almonds ?

I wonder if WA and Oregon could support 37 million people....lol..

Well the very northern part of California isn't too dry, but not many live there....so could fit some people in there to bring down how many have to go to Oregon and WA.


Looking at a graph yesterday of water use from 1970 until 2000, California did pretty good at keeping water consumption down overall despite the huge increase in population.

19 million in 1970 vs 33 million in 2000.

2014 estimate is 38.8 million.

The pipeline rears it head again

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/exclusive...672789084.html

It might not be the top of the list economically... but its popular

and if it wins votes then it'll get supported

http://www.newsweek.com/nasa-califor...er-left-313647

NASA says california has 1 year of water left.

Not really, because if more people move South, then there will even be less water and it's also cheaper to heat than it is to cool.

Looks like food prices will be going up.

yup. also a good opportunity for other countries (like NZ) to sell to the US

The bill still has to be approved by the California state senate and Governor, but probably will pass and signed, will ban fining people for having brown lawns which some area's of the state like to do.

Gonna piss off some of the over zealous control freak HOA's if this passes, what will they do if they don't have the power to force people to keep a green lawn?

The bill stems from a lady who made news when she was fined $500 by a local government for having a brown lawn on the same day the state passed legislation fining for excessive water use.