Sounds like projection on their part. Using 15% and selling the rest is exactly what I would expect Russian military personnel to try getting away with.

Gotta stay strong, fight off the siren call of naptime.

I operate on a similar schedule, I usually fall asleep by 1pm (I stay up a bit later if I don't work that night) and wake up at 9pm to go to work at 10:30pm. My shift times are consistent, at least, so I can at least follow some kind of schedule.

On top of that, because of the drought we've been depleting groundwater at an even faster rate, and that takes much longer to replenish. So, during the next inevitable drought in the next 10 years or so we're not gonna have as much groundwater to fall back on.

We are, quite simply, using too much of a shrinking resource, and not enough is being done to deal with the problem. We needed to put the screws to the big agribusinesses years ago, that's where all the damned water's going.

In 1960, it would be 10 million equivalent.

Late 1956 to 1960. Benefited heavily from the Post-war boom I suspect, once you're hitting those kinds of numbers during that time it becomes harder to 'fail' because unless you massively fuck up on a big, risky venture the money can basically grow itself through stable, safe, lower-return investments.

This, we'd need at least a couple years of less-scorching summers with rainy winters before a real dent could be made in the drought, it's hard to overstate how dry and depleted the state is, even after being clobbered by weeks of rain and snow we're still gonna have water problems.

It's ultimately a temporary reprieve that'll help with water supply for this year and maybe a ripple effect into next year depending on how much melts. The issue is prolonged drought plus overconsumption of water resources has depleted the 'stockpile' of snowpack that usually accumulates year over year, as well as the groundwater reserves. What the state needs is at least several winters with rain/snowfall like what we're getting this winter.

Well, they are in the live site version, I guess they removed it before saving the image.

Holy hell, 2" of growth in a day and this weather's not gonna let up for another week, to say nothing of possible rain over the next three months. Jeez.