{"id":414,"date":"2014-07-17T23:52:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T03:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=414"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:14:22","slug":"growth-in-demand-for-almond-milk-may-be-affecting-californias-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/07\/growth-in-demand-for-almond-milk-may-be-affecting-californias-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"Growth in demand for almond milk may be affecting California&#8217;s drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s current drought is one of the worst ever seen in the state&#8217;s history, according to a recent study by UC-Davis. &nbsp;In the story, published <a title=\"California drought\" href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/californias-2014-drought-greatest-water-174446516.html\">here<\/a>, it points out that California produces 80 percent of the world&#8217;s almonds and that it takes 1.1 gallons of water to produce each almond. &nbsp;Because of the lack of surface water, almond growers are turning to groundwater to irrigate their almond trees. &nbsp;But in the long term this may be counter-productive, since groundwater cannot be easily restored. &nbsp;Groundwater pumping is currently unregulated in California, so no one knows how much water is being withdrawn and how much is remaining. &nbsp;This may cause problems if the drought continues for several years, as has happened in the past. &nbsp; &nbsp;This has caused some recent discussion in the popular press about the climatological impacts of drinking almond milk, including articles in <a title=\"Almond milk and CA drought\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/tom-philpott\/2014\/07\/your-almond-habit-sucking-califoirnia-dry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mother Jones<\/a> and <a title=\"Grist article on almond milk\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/food\/lay-off-the-almond-milk-you-ignorant-hipsters\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=update&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grist<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s current drought is one of the worst ever seen in the state&#8217;s history, according to a recent study by UC-Davis. &nbsp;In the story, published here, it points out that California produces 80 percent of the world&#8217;s almonds and that it takes 1.1 gallons of water to produce each almond. &nbsp;Because of the lack of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22696,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/22696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}