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Originally Posted by Webstral
Water is another critical issue. After the TDM, electricity for pumping water will be out right across the country. People and crops need water, and they can’t go without it for very long. I have a bad habit of letting two or three days go by without watering my container tomatoes. The rainy season hasn’t started in California, so the only water those tomatoes are going to get comes from my hose. What would I do if the water were out? The same applies to everything in my garden. In cities that get rain year-round, such as those cities east of the 100th Meridian, it may be possible to rely on a combination of rainfall and improvised cisterns. Throughout much of the American West, however, rainfall is both seasonal and scanty. The more the solution to acquiring water in these places depends on civil order, planning, cooperation, etc., the less likely the solution is to be executed. Albuquerque is in a much tougher spot than Cincinnati.
Webstral
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For much of California is only rains between October and May at best. So a city like Sacramento that is next to a big river could have at least some access to water.
But where I'm at in North San Jose there is a creek like 1000ft away. But it tends to completely dry up this time of year. The Guadalupe is about 2 miles away but thats a long way for water unless things are fairly stable.
I see any urban farming as supplemental and not primary sources of agriculture. That not to say water can't be found, Silicon Valley used to have some of the best orchards in the world so the weather and soils are good. Its just how to get the water. They pumped alot of the ground water out in the early 1900's. In the 70's and 80's they contanimated alot of it. Now, its all paved over.