In San Diego County, approximately 72 million gallons were wasted on the illegal marijuana farms from corporations, enough to potentially serve 440 families for an entire year. DEA Assistant Special Agent Gary Hill made the statement that “With the ongoing drought here in California, we’re all aware of how important it is to conserve water ... but what most people don’t realize is how much water is used to grow a marijuana plant and that most of that water is stolen," during a conference on Thursday. he also added that a majority of the indoor and outdoor pot operations that have been closed used stolen water or water taken from natural resources. Not only water seized for illegal pot operations, but also water seized in any way can undo the effort that citizens of California are making to conserve this water, and in extreme cases, result in heavy fines due to falling short of the water conservation quotas set by counties and cities. Despite this atrocity, the amount of indoor operations stayed constant from 2014 to 2015, but the outdoor operations actually decreased by 20%, since water is clearly scarce.
This really angers me because southern California already takes up enough of the water for our state as is it is, but knowing that a large part of that water being taken is for illegal drugs such as pot just makes it a million times worse. Considering it could have been used to serve 440 families really says a lot about our generation, and how we would rather use clean water to grow something that slowly kills you than to use it for SURVIVAL. What a sick world we live in.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/dec/10/thirsty-pot-farms-are-a-burden-during-drought/
This really angers me because southern California already takes up enough of the water for our state as is it is, but knowing that a large part of that water being taken is for illegal drugs such as pot just makes it a million times worse. Considering it could have been used to serve 440 families really says a lot about our generation, and how we would rather use clean water to grow something that slowly kills you than to use it for SURVIVAL. What a sick world we live in.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/dec/10/thirsty-pot-farms-are-a-burden-during-drought/