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Sixty minutes talking about groundwater....scary

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200 foot drops in groundwater tables in one year in some areas, and commonly dropping five feet a month. Satellites called Grace are measuring groundwater from space and massive drops are happening around the world. Within ten years water problems will cause state failures. Water is the new oil, and we too have problems in California where the ground is sinking a foot a year.

ZVUGKTUBM

ZVUGKTUBM

I took a course in Limnology (the study of lakes) when I was in graduate school, and the text book said only 11% of the worlds water is fresh water, and only a fraction of that is groundwater.

As the world's population eventually surges toward 9 billion souls in the coming decades, yes, there will be more demands for limited supplies of clean fresh water.

As you said, water will one day be the new "oil," and billionaire investors are already clamoring to get a stake in the new market for it.

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The land on earth has been drying out since the last glacial maximum... that's also increased the sea level by hundreds of feet. We had a thread on here the other day about all of the amazing cities that lay long buried under water.

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/

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OMG!!!!! All the water is vanishing and giant worms are appearing in the deep desert. We're all going to die!

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ZVUGKTUBM

ZVUGKTUBM

PkrBum wrote:The land on earth has been drying out since the last glacial maximum... that's also increased the sea level by hundreds of feet. We had a thread on here the other day about all of the amazing cities that lay long buried under water.

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/gornitz_09/

They must have emitted too much CO2 back in antiquity for the seas to rise like that....

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Yella

Yella

The ground water levels are sinking mainly because of increased irrigation and also because of accelerated meltoff of snow cover on mountains, glaciers and the polar icecaps. Its all a part of the global warming that is occurring. The water runs off in torrents to the seas rather than seeping slowing into the earth. What is also scary is that a lot of the water that we have is being contaminated by fracturing to retrieve crude oil.

But, as our Republican friends love to say, why worry? The grandchildren will fix it.

We should be spending billions to develop water desalinization plants but instead we blow it on war, because that is where the profits are. Halliburton, as we all know, mades unimaginable profits in the Middle East.

http://warpedinblue,blogspot.com/

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http://m.phys.org/news/2013-04-abrupt-widespread-climate-shift-sahara.html

Markle

Markle

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:I took a course in Limnology (the study of lakes) when I was in graduate school, and the text book said only 11% of the worlds water is fresh water, and only a fraction of that is groundwater.

As the world's population eventually surges toward 9 billion souls in the coming decades, yes, there will be more demands for limited supplies of clean fresh water.

As you said, water will one day be the new "oil," and billionaire investors are already clamoring to get a stake in the new market for it.

Actually, of all the water on earth, about 2.5% is and has been freshwater. When was that course?

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Anybody who is honest with him or herself can see we're fucking up the air and water for future generations.

TEOTWAWKI

TEOTWAWKI

Yella wrote:The ground water levels are sinking mainly because of increased irrigation and also because of accelerated meltoff of snow cover on mountains, glaciers and the polar icecaps. Its all a part of the global warming that is occurring. The water runs off in torrents to the seas rather than seeping slowing into the earth. What is also scary is that a lot of the water that we have is being contaminated by fracturing to retrieve crude oil.

But, as our Republican friends love to say, why worry? The grandchildren will fix it.

We should be spending billions to develop water desalinization plants but instead we blow it on war, because that is where the profits are. Halliburton, as we all know, mades unimaginable profits in the Middle East.


The Powers that be hate people....Wars = less people....good
Water shortage = less people......also good

2seaoat



All that snow in Buffalo and not enough out west......it would be great if we had a nationwide infrastructure on potable water.

Yella

Yella

A canal from the Mississippi to Texas could be opened in the spring to send floodwater to where it could do some good. It would be maintained by the Corps of Engineers.

This will be laughed at and hoorahed but it would be money well spent. Far more intelligent than the oil pipeline to make the Koch brothers even wealthier than they already are.

http://warpedinblue,blogspot.com/

2seaoat



I have to completely agree. In Illinois they have things called drainage districts. Most of the Western part of the state had been grasslands and wetlands, but when John Deere invented the plow which could cut through the prairie, the farmers through the state legislature formed drainage districts which put field tiles in low areas and drew off ample ground water which poured into local streams and eventually made its way down the Mississippi. Your idea, plus a hundred others could save this clean water and divert it to areas which are in need. The problem with much of the agricultural run off is the nitrates it picks up from the fields. There are solutions if we want to invest in America.

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