Could you cite the source on your claim that a single pistachio farmer uses 130 billion-with-a-b gallons of water a year, please?
Do you mean a particular farm, or “any” farmer in the abstract?
Do you mean a particular farm, or “any” farmer in the abstract?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2021/11/21/how-m...
Here we’d be talking about “the corporate name” in pistachios. That’s a very different thing from what “a” typical pistachio farmer needs. I submit the original comment is cherry-picking to make their argument.
A pistachio tree needs something like (on average) 60 gallons of water a day.
For one 365-day year that is 21,900 gallons/tree/year.
That’s a lot of water, of course. But most farms do not have in excess of 5.39 million pistachio trees (using the 130 billion gallon number).