Hey, pot-smokers, if you dont grow your own, do you think about this at all? Dire water warnings about the ecological effects of pot-faming in Californias pot-farm-heavy Emerald Triangle (Mendocino, Humboldt, and Trinity counties). ....a forthcoming study from the California Fish and Wildlife Department on three key Emerald Triangle watersheds. Using satellite imagery, the researchers found that pot cultivation had skyrocketed in the areas since 2009, rising between 75 percent and 100 percent. The three watersheds contain an average of 30,000 pot plants each, they found. (Heres a nifty map). And theyre thirsty. According to the Press Democrat, Researchers estimate each plant consumes 6 gallons of water a day. At that rate, the plants were siphoning off 180,000 gallons of water per day in each watershed—all together more than 160 Olympic-sized swimming pools over the average 150-day growing cycle for outdoor plants. pressdemocrat/article/20140412/articles/140419825#page=0 motherjones/tom-philpott/2014/04/your-pot-habit-sucks-salmon
Posted on: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 20:34:25 +0000
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