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Merely one ounce of pot required 10 or more gallons of water to grow.

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Another estimate is that a mature cannabis plant consumes 23 liters of water per day, which is 6.08 gallons daily..

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Estimates are that the water use by legal cannabis crops will double in five years, and there are about 3 times as many illegal cannabis plants as legal ones.

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Cannabas water use is an average of an immense six (6) gallons per plant per day

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Seizure in August 2022 of an illegal cannabis grow of 8,716 plants, apparently funded from Mexico, also discovered unlawful use of water, all near Junction City, Oregon.

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→‎Theft of Santa Ynez River water

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The alleged theft by these cannabis growers thereby totals the annual water needs of up to 5,000 people, amid a terrible drought in the summer of 2022 in California.

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In 2021, federal interdicting efforts seized 5.53 million unlawful cannabis plants, which therefore were consuming 5.5 billion gallons of water annually.

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→‎Humboldt County, California: Water use by cannabis farms have caused the wells of neighbors to go dry

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Severe water shortages have been caused by cannabis growing, both legal and illegal, in Humboldt County, California on its northwest coast.

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merely with respect to California it's an immense problem

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A study of water theft included this observation

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Aschlafly moved page Cannibis water use to Cannabis water use without leaving a redirect

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Almonds are considered to be unusually wasteful of water, requiring 5 liters of water to produce merely one almond. But cannibis is just as wasteful of water, without providing the nourishment that almonds confer.

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Aschlafly moved page Cannibas water use to Cannibis water use without leaving a redirect

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Cannibas water use is nearly twice that of conventional commodity crops