Yes, we need to streamline permitting and inspections etc. That's a no brainer. But that can't be the only thing keeping US residential solar costs 3 to 4-times more expensive than it is anywhere else in the world. There's got to be more to fix than just permitting.
Golf courses in Spain use more water than Madrid & Barcelona combined
Each hole requires more than 100,000 litres of water a day to maintain the greens
An elite pursuit that wastes precious natural resources https://t.co/TDh9ANFtor
Who needs California and Hawaii #waves ? Some hearty surfers head to the Great Lakes, from Duluth to Sheboygan. “Sheboygan is the Malibu of the Midwest.” https://t.co/qQRSksDyun
Water #infrastructure is poor, outdated & under-resourced, as well as notoriously inadequate & underfunded — in some cities and states, it’s over 100 years old. @EPA estimates that it could take an #investment of up to $839M/yr to replace... " https://t.co/c9bHWPd4mh
#energy fields in CA are some of most productive in US, generating billions of barrels of #oil annually & > 2/3 of state’s natural #gas in #drought -stricken state, also, consuming vast quantities of fresh #water to extract stubborn oil. https://t.co/ZII9wDKweR
#Snow acts as a kind of “frozen #reservoir ” that stores #water from one season to another But when precipitation falls more heavily as #rain — & when storms come in quick succession — water isn’t as easily stored and instead becomes destructive. https://t.co/hO7kqk4l9P
Mitchell agrees # of new #water#users in West is important to account for, but real math happens at reservoirs. There's been consistently more water being released than #MotherNature is adding in with #precipitation. And she said that's a huge problem. https://t.co/Lt0zN0QXOt