Global warming will bring more hurricanes to Texas. Problem solved
That is an increase but less than I was expecting. Looking at the water use charts at TWDB it looks like irrigation uses the lions share of water at over 55%, which is most likely for farming. Municipalities (people) are next at about 25%. Surprisingly cattle and livestock barely register. I would have expected more.
Still not a fan of it, but interesting to see the comparative numbers.
Does the livestock figure include the water being used to grow their feed? Probably not because of course there’s no guarantee that their feed is Texas sourced. But there are just SO many examples of already too dry places having astronomical amounts of water given (read: stolen legally) to farm stupidly water intensive crops that are only good for feeding livestock like alfalfa.
