The bigger issue is that 1/3 of crops are used as animal feed.
No matter how water efficient they are, you still need 10x as much of them for the same amount of calories.
It'd be much easier and have a bigger impact to just go plant-based.
It'd be much easier and have a bigger impact to just go plant-based.
It's not as if the farmers in India are feeding cows and everyone feasts on hamburgers. And in Yemen, they're growing that qat drug (not meat)
And who cares about India, when we're already screwing ourselves over well enough: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-wa...
70% of the water used from the Colorado River (which is slowly losing water) is used for crops, and 80% of that is used for feed production. But let's stop taking so many showers, that'll fix the issue.
Who cares about India -- hmm, doesn't ground water depletion have quite different consequences:
In the US, there'll be fewer hamburgers. While in India, people will starve, famines?
Ok but this is a non starter since myself and a huge chunk of the western population will say no thank you.