{"id":5930,"date":"2009-07-24T08:45:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5930"},"modified":"2009-07-24T08:45:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T15:45:21","slug":"curbing-water-waste-the-demand-side-solution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=5930","title":{"rendered":"Curbing Water Waste: The Demand-side Solution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/spigot-cv-20090723165715.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/spigot-cv-20090723165715.jpg','popup','width=165,height=249,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/spigot-cv-20090723165715-tm.jpg\" height=\"150\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Spigot Cv 20090723165715\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacinst.org\/reports\/california_agriculture\/\" target=\"_blank\">A new report<\/a><\/strong> by the Oakland, California-based <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacinst.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific institutes<\/a><\/strong> claims the best solution to California&#8217;s water problem is to simply curb waste in the Central Valley, according to a post on the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2009\/07\/24\/waste-not-a-demand-side-solution-for-californias-water-troubles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Environmental Capital<\/a><\/em><\/strong> blog.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What\u2019s interesting about the analysis is just how much the authors think a combination of irrigation technologies and management practices can save: 5.6 million acre-feet in an average year. That\u2019s 17% of all water used by California farmers, and more than twice the total the state\u2019s millions of city-dwellers could save if they wised up about their water use. It\u2019s also a whole lot more than the enormous desalination plant in Carlsbad, Calif. will produce when it comes online.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See what they&#8217;re getting at here?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2009\/07\/24\/waste-not-a-demand-side-solution-for-californias-water-troubles\/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Capital<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by the Oakland, California-based Pacific institutes claims the best solution to California&#8217;s water problem is to simply curb waste in the Central Valley, according to a post on the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Environmental Capital blog. What\u2019s interesting about the analysis is just how much the authors think a combination of irrigation technologies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5931,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5930\/revisions\/5931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}