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.
Fresh drinking water makes up only 6% of the total water on Earth and 100% of the worldâs population relies on it. This includes the icecaps and glaciers and if these sources are subtracted from the total, only 0.3% of the water on Earth is useable for drinking, and the majority of that is groundwater.