KQED has posted on their website an excellent primer on how water and power use in California are connected. Engaging cartoons convey how Water Needs Power, and how producing Power Needs Water. These short cartoons are the most effective communication tools I’ve ever seen on this subject.
For those who like to consume their information on California water in a more-voluminous, less-artistic, more-policy-oriented way, in December the Pacific Institute released its California Water Footprint report. Full of graphs and detailed information about water use, in this report you can learn things such as: meat and dairy products account for 47% of California’s water footprint, or 93% of California’s water (that is used to produce goods and services) is used to produce agricultural goods and services.