I think most people take showers but most people don't irrigate their fields.

Most people consume produce from irrigated fields. So it depends on how you want to allocate the consumption: to farmers or consumers? (It's just an accounting question.)

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hooverd a year ago | parent [-]

I'm convinced there's a pareto distribution of crop water usage. We're depleting our aquifers to grow sileage crops and almonds (which aren't even that good).

	▲	eru a year ago \| parent [-]
		Different things happen in different parts of the globe, and water is a fairly local issue. You are right that me consuming almonds in Singapore can indirectly cause trouble in California, where they grow the almonds. But the well-known solution to that is proper water rights trading, like they do in Australia in water challenged areas.