A: Probably not, though itâs hard to know for sure. Hexane is a volatile solvent thatâs used, with Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval, to extract oil from soybeans (as well as from nuts and olives).
Agriculture uses about 80 percent of Californiaâs. developed water supply. As such a large. user, it is heavily impacted by the availability. and reliability of Californiaâs water resources. Agriculture can also play an important role in. helping the state achieve a more sustainable. water future.
States, or 14 percent of the population, provided their own water for domestic use in 2010. These self-supplied with-drawals were estimated at 3,600 Mgal/d (4,040 thousand acre-ft/yr), or about 1 percent of total withdrawals for all uses in 2010.