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CurtisSerVaas comments on California Drought thread - Less Wrong Discussion

3 Post author: SanguineEmpiricist 07 May 2015 06:44PM

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Comment author: CurtisSerVaas 14 May 2015 07:22:47PM *  1 point [-]

That figure doesn't factor in the costs of transporting the water, but these seem like minor costs to me. I wonder if there are any costs I'm not thinking of. Even if it were 3X as much, it still seems reasonable.

According to this site, Americans use ~100l/person/day.