• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    We use twice as much to maintain golf courses and 4x as much to water our lawns every year. I’m not saying it’s a drop in the bucket, so to speak, but it’s not the worst offender. We have bigger fish to fry.

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      3 hours ago

      We’re also not at the early stages of a boom appearing poised to grow by an order of magnitude or more in the next few years in golf courses and lawns…

    • errer@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Keep in mind data center water use is set to grow geometrically over the next few years. It will soon be one of the worst offenders. The time to get it under control is now.

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        13 hours ago

        We’re not about to run out of water. You should be asking for better permitting for renewable energy because we can run out of that

        Texas actually outgrew California in renewable energy because of less regulation

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      17 hours ago

      I was almost offended at the responses to your fact checking comment, then I remembered I’m on Lemmy