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Water Shortage Situation Critical: Our Time is Up | Rick Rule - Liberty and Finance - VIDEO
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Why The American West Is Running Out Of Water - Cheddar Explains
US Western Megadrought Worst In 1,200 Years, Scientist Warn
by Tyler Durden
Friday, Feb 18, 2022 - 05:20 PM
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/us-western-megadrought-worst-1200-years-scientist-warn?fbclid=IwAR3c4IJEGFZSUzCUL7gfr8_xoV0Ci0gqa7BLuYbYocghEo4aZ2BtdkitzT8
Sumisu Thanks; Inside the American Redoubt: Trump voters building a new state | Times Documentaries
California farmers face ‘catastrophic’ water restrictions. Can they adapt to survive?
By Dale Kasler
Updated January 28, 2021 10:31 AM
https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/big-valley/article233596597.html
Green and Grand: John Wesley Powell and the West That Wasn’t
No photos were taken during John Wesley Powell’s pioneering 1869 expedition of the Colorado River. This photo, taken along the Green River in northern Colorado, dates from Powell’s 1871 expedition, which retraced the 1869 journey. Credit: National Park Service
"The completion of the transcontinental railroad was especially timely for a nation in pursuit of Manifest Destiny, which disregarded the realities of climate and the native peoples who occupied the land in favor of spreading American industrialism and progress from coast to coast. Politicians, speculators, and homesteaders were eager to exploit the promise of the West’s seemingly endless resources and would be quick to deny the hard truth that lives and livelihoods depended on one all-important ingredient: water."
By Korena Di Roma Howley 23 May 2019
https://eos.org/features/green-and-grand-john-wesley-powell-and-the-west-that-wasnt
It Is So Dry In California That The Drinking Water Is Literally Starting To Taste Like Dirt
http://endoftheamericandream.com/it-is-so-dry-in-california-that-the-drinking-water-is-literally-starting-to-taste-like-dirt/?fbclid=IwAR2q8DnTpuKSZ2mF5tWJqa1y2Jr23NWWFRUOdIstbc4eo_jwQuJuk6345fQ
Western U.S. may be entering its most severe drought in modern history
nativenewspost
May 22, 2021
https://nativenewspost.com/news/health/western-u-s-may-be-entering-its-most-severe-drought-in-modern-history/
The entire state of California is now in drought, just kindling waiting for an ignition
By Chad Myers and Monica Garrett, CNN Meteorologists
Updated 1:52 PM ET, Thu May 13, 2021
Boat docks at the Browns Ravine Cove sit on dry earth at Folsom Lake on May 10 in El Dorado Hills.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/13/weather/california-drought-wildfire-season/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0LkXsBJjN5ne1-TEq0qxepEYcTVetHn0evu9baIK-Hmbi8jrrA5-T2ehc
As a megadrought persists, new projections show a key Colorado River reservoir could sink to a record low later this year
CNN Digital Expansion 2016 Andrew Kann
Story by Drew Kann, video by Bryce Urbany and graphics by Renée Rigdon
Updated 6:34 PM ET, Wed April 21, 2021
https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/19/weather/western-drought-colorado-river-cutbacks-study/index.html
Water Wells at Risk of Going Dry in the U.S. and Worldwide
The Conversation
May. 10, 2021 12:40PM EST
An orchard near Kettleman City in California's San Joaquin Valley on April 2, 2021. Frederic J. Brown / AFP via Getty Images
By Debra Perrone and Scott Jasechko
https://www.ecowatch.com/water-wells-depletion-drought-2652937397.html?share_id=6466759&fbclid=IwAR0FmGgBbhNBFqjU8Ct2gQ5TZBrGNlqkjHdRRrPPqfmXK2YhuCH5wHeQNrI#toggle-gdpr
Peak Water: Are we Running out of a Critical Resource?
https://thesenecaeffect.blogspot.com/2021/04/peak-water-update.html?fbclid=IwAR0G2ue32vx2t-TQOD5yxABE0ckBR0w2k6vpHkc0yy7ynOGCRwwb51gVs3s
Drought in Taiwan Pits Chip Makers Against Farmers
By Raymond Zhong and Amy Chang Chien
Published April 8, 2021 Updated April 13, 2021
The water level at Tsengwen Reservoir, near Tainan, is dangerously low.Credit...An Rong Xu for The New York Times
As water levels continue to drop at Tsengwen Reservoir and other reservoirs, some companies have hauled in truckloads of water from other areas.Credit...An Rong Xu for The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/08/technology/taiwan-drought-tsmc-semiconductors.html?fbclid=IwAR0BbaD7nZx4OTR7qyu0FIWsB5fZLM6XZE2aQb0f2NGMOn3eTka_P_cOf9g
What Will The Western Half Of The US Look Like During "The Second Dust Bowl"?
Tyler Durden's Photo
by Tyler Durden
Wednesday, Apr 07, 2021 - 04:40 PM
Authored by Michael Snyder via https://www.TheMostImportantNews.com
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/what-will-western-half-us-look-during-second-dust-bowl
Western US States Prepare For 1st-Ever Water Shortage Declaration; Hoover Dam Hydroelectric Generation At Risk
by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Apr 18, 2021 - 11:40 AM
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/hoover%201.jpg?itok=IfTIQtwt
we agree, 100%. and it really irks me the media has done such a bang up job of hiding fukushima. this is an issue we should all -- and i mean globally -- have a voice in resolving. weigh all the options and vote on it.
An amazing story... with solutions but these bureaucrats always want to take the easy and reckless way out without regard for consequences.
Understanding the California Water Futures Market https://agnetwest.com/understanding-the-california-water-futures-market/
i doubt most people realize what's being unleashed with fukushima right now. it's the biggest story never told. a total nighmare.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2021-03-15/plan-dump-fukushimas-radioactive-water-ocean-causes-outcry
Japan Comes Clean, Admits Dumping Fukushima Radioactive Water In Pacific Ocean Is Now "Unavoidable"
BY TYLER DURDEN - FRIDAY, APR 09, 2021 - 08:20 PM
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/japan-comes-clean-admits-dumping-fukushima-radioactive-water-pacific-ocean-now
The world's supply of fresh water is in trouble as mountain ice vanishes
These high "water towers" provide a huge percentage of global fresh water, but climate change and geopolitical stresses endanger their existence.
By Alejandra Borunda
PUBLISHED December 9, 2019
https://tinyurl.com/u377sdm
How drought and the fight for water is splitting the state of California
Published on Aug 15, 2017
Pumped Dry: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater | USA TODAY
Published on Aug 14, 2018
In places around the world, supplies of groundwater are rapidly vanishing. As aquifers decline and wells begin to go dry, people are being forced to confront a growing crisis.
Almost 30 Bangalore Lakes Killed For Urbanisation! No Wonder We Are Facing A Water Crisis!
Roshni Jacob | Updated on Jul 02, 2019 09:09 IST
https://www.whatshot.in/bangalore/lakes-encroached-bangalore-c-16155?fbclid=iwar1xumjhecstaupdop9zxnovwdmkffxalkw4cesakotsqqpmtbhi2jsvzby
To the point: In light of the looming water crisis, we take a look at Bangalore’s lakes that were encroached for urban structures.
Once known as the City of Thousand Lakes, Bangalore barely has enough lakes anymore to retain its beautiful title. In fact, it was described as a ‘City of Burning Lakes’ in an article by The Guardian, a couple of years ago. Considering the impending threat of water crisis in the city, with reports saying Bangalore will run out of groundwater by 2020, the disappearance of lakes is an issue worth delving into.
Picture credit: Distilled Stills
From an approximate of 920 tank and lakes in the 1960s, Bangalore has now come down to just over 100 lakes, as per reports from 2012. With just 17 lakes existing in the centre of the city, we’ve lost more than 20 of these water bodies to urbanisation! Whether it’s to build up swanky apartment buildings or infrastructures like bus stands and terminals, several lakes were encroached. We’ve compiled a list of some of the major lakes (out of the 25) which were lost to urbanisation, becoming concrete jungles.
Challaghatta Lake was changed to Karnataka Golf Association
Koramangala Lake was changed to National Games Complex
Siddikatte Lake has now become KR Market
Karanji tank is now the Gandhi Bazar area
Nagashetty Halli Lake became Department of Space
Kadugondanahalli Lake is now Ambedkar Medical College
Picture Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dharmambudhi Tank has become Majestic Bus Stand
Domlur lake changed to BDA layout
Millers lake was replaced by Guru Nanak Bhavan, Badminton Stadium
Sampangi Tank has become Kanteerava Sports Complex
Chenamma Tank was converted into a burial ground in Banashankari 2nd Stage
Picture Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Dasarahalli Tank was converted into Dr. B.R Ambedkar Stadium
Adding to this, there are several lakes which were encroached for residential layouts, grounds and other structures.
While taking over lakes might have met the urban needs of the city at that point in time, it has, unfortunately, led us to the current water shortage we’re facing. And, the only way out is to start acting now!
Source: Wikipedia and Bangalore Mirror
Puttennahalli Tank is the present JP Nagar 6th Phase
“Day Zero” has arrived for 100 million Indian people as reservoirs dry up and people queue in long lines with temperatures of more than 50 deg C 122 deg F
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
Water Crisis in India’s Chennai as Reservoirs Dry Out: Photo liveindia.com
http://www.thebigwobble.org/2019/06/day-zero-has-arrived-for-100-million.html?fbclid=IwAR1EbxJP6Cg53xewU7F6seC_aj88DimtDa_ejRzXM3DLpBDSY4Efeue3cIg
Where will the 'water wars' of the future be fought?
The remains of a dead tree are pictured at the almost empty Maria Cristina water reservoir during a severe drought near Castellon, Spain, September 14, 2018. REUTERS/Heino Kalis - RC1D52A2BDC0
'Water wars' could rise as a result of climate change.
Image: REUTERS/Heino Kalis
This article was originally published by Big Think
23 Oct 2018
Paul Ratner of Big Think
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/where-the-water-wars-of-the-future-will-be-fought/?fbclid=IwAR2Dzc1d3cY25is3hrNufuFB1ySaLvKgqZFMHhC0zrRmb19FIkoqjSSumQQ
India's sixth biggest city is almost entirely out of water
By Jessie Yeung, Helen Regan and Swati Gupta, CNN
Updated 9:18 PM ET, Wed June 19, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/19/india/chennai-water-crisis-intl-hnk/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0NKXvzuRKzsWQrHxxsZobQwhzv8gqUS31IEhXyR6r1ldLVYxMoZNLLTcw
PUMPED DRY: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater-FULL VIDEO
Declining levels in rivers, dams spark water crisis fears
The CWC data also shows that, except the Indus, the Narmada, and the west-bound rivers of the south, the water level in all the river basins is less than the average of the last 10 years
india Updated: Apr 29, 2019 07:12 IST
Chetan Chauhan
Hindustan Times, New Delhi
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the pre-monsoon rainfall from March to April — critical to agriculture in several parts of the country — has recorded a 27% deficit. An analysis by scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, suggests that about half of the country is in the grip of a drought.(AP)
https://tinyurl.com/y3q8u68x
California’s central valley aquifers may be gone in 2030s, Ogallala 2050-2070
Posted on April 6, 2019 by energyskeptic
http://energyskeptic.com/2019/californias-central-valley-aquifers-may-be-gone-in-2030s-ogallala-2050-2070/
Africa’s Booming Cities Are Running Out of Water
By Ekow Dontoh and Michael Cohen
March 18, 2019, 6:00 PM EDT Updated on March 19, 2019, 1:19 AM EDT
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-18/africa-is-running-out-of-water-as-cities-see-populations-boom?fbclid=IwAR23sBBQKp6WnWYNKDac_lFj12TTZ4cwHIfidt6RyIakUtrZ30iWsS2qS18
Great video sumisu, right on on all points, IMO. A crisis of some kind, natural or engineered could set off a bad chain reaction of the food supply. I have been watching the 4 Corners drought. Lake Powell is now lower than it was at the worst of the drought ending 5 years ago, 2014. It feeds Lake Mead and that could affect the water supply of Southern Cal, Vegas, parts of Az and more. A lot of rain moving into norther Cal this week, but maybe not much relief for the 4 Corners.
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/Maps/CompareTwoWeeks.aspx
If Lake Mead drops off as fast as in 2014..... crisis.
http://mead.uslakes.info/level.asp
The Lake Powell link is not working today and it does not show 2014 anyway. Take my word, it is a couple of feet lower than its' bottom in 2014 and a couple mopre months to go to hit the normal bottom date.
http://graphs.water-data.com/lakepowell/
The world,, you might have to to slide the bar to get it to January 20, 2019>>>>>
http://spei.csic.es/map/maps.html#months=1#month=0#year=2019
WARNING: The Coming Food Crisis | Be Ready 2019
Are you ready for the collapse of the agricultural system? In this video I go over all of the factors which threaten the global food supply. Consumerism, overpopulation, urbanization, pollution, biodiversity, monoculture, farming practices, water shortages, herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, overfishing, geopolitics, bee extinction, monopoly (big agri), genetically modified food, global warming, soil erosion, land loss. drought, are just some of the many challenges to our way of life. GET READY.
There's a Water 'Time Bomb' Lurking Beneath The Planet's Surface, Scientists Warn
DAVID NIELD
23 JAN 2019
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-water-supply-is-an-environmental-timebomb-scientists-say?fbclid=IwAR3jH2EuCeG8_fWht0Z32ziPumL-Guue6WGa8_lT4HZFBgfNrdKNW87zTwE
"We could be 40% short of water in just 12 years."
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article63685.html
The Bottled Water Bamboozle Dec 03, 2018
interesting
This article will take a look at this highly profitable but unethical industry that has duped literally billions of people into believing that bottled water is better for you and worth paying top dollar for. Of course, sometimes bottled water is necessary where clean tap water is unavailable. We’re exempting those folks, since they don’t have a choice in the water they drink. We’ll also do a global survey of the state of the world’s aquifers, to show just how much of a risk water boards are taking in allowing multinational companies to deplete billions of gallons/ liters of a scarce fresh water resource. We are truly being bamboozled.
A University of Victoria study found that just 6% of global groundwater is being replenished within 50 years.
According to the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), we could be looking at a 40% shortfall in the availability of water within just 12 years - that includes the 600 aquifers that cross borders; at current usages, there are sure to be more fights over water in future.
It gets worse. As aquifers are depleting, demand for water is growing. It’s expected to increase 55% by 2050 - mostly due to the need for more food production. Demand increases during droughts, when surface water gets dried up first. California for example, in a drought since 2011, currently taps aquifers for 60% of its water, 20% more than normal.
So how are the world’s aquifers doing, region by region? NASA attempted to answer this question using satellite data. It found that of the major gravel and sand-filled aquifers, 21 out of 37 (56%) are receding. A third were described as “highly stressed,” “extremely stressed” or “overstressed”. SIWI states that nearly half of the world’s aquifers may be past their tipping point, meaning a natural recovery has become impossible.
The water table is dropping all over the world.
Conclusion
It doesn’t take a hydrologist to figure out that the world must stop bottled water companies from drawing down already-stressed aquifers, or even pumping from areas that aren’t water-stressed. When multinationals like Nestle and Coca-Cola are allowed to sink wells into aquifers for nothing or next to nothing, there’s something seriously wrong.
The problem stems from governments and their representatives being unaware of the fragility of our global groundwater. They don’t know, or don’t care, that we have a crisis of fresh water. Less than 1% of the Earth’s water is groundwater.
Our current rates of depletion are unsustainable. But if we did one thing to slow the depletion of groundwater, it might buy us a few more years: ban bottled water companies from extracting it.
It doesn’t matter whether the company is pumping it from bone-dry California or rain-soaked BC, eventually we are going to need this groundwater when the Earth warms to the point where all the glaciers melt and once-mighty rivers are reduced to trickles. Instead we’re giving it away. What are we doing?
there's much more in the article
Cheers
Ogallala Aquifer - Wikipedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer
Ogallala Aquifer - Water Encyclopedia
The Ogallala Aquifer occupies the High Plains of the United States, extending northward from western Texas to South Dakota. The Ogallala is the leading geologic formation in what is known as the High Plains Aquifer System. The entire system underlies about 450,000 square kilometers (174,000 square miles) of eight states. Although there are several other minor geologic formations in the High Plains Aquifer System, such as the Tertiary Brule and Arikaree and the Dakota formations of the Cretaceous, these several units are often referred to as the Ogallala Aquifer.
Water Encyclopedia
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Ogallala-Aquifer.html
What Happens to the U.S. Midwest When the Water's Gone?
The Ogallala aquifer turned the region into America's breadbasket. Now it, and a way of life, are being drained away.
By Laura Parker
Photographs by Randy Olson
This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/08/vanishing-midwest-ogallala-aquifer-drought/
A Vanishing Aquifer
What Happens When The Water Runs Out?
08 2016
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/08/vanishing-aquifer-interactive-map/
Leaking Las Vegas: West's Biggest Reservoir Nears Critical Threshold
Lake Mead - the West's largest reservoir - is running dry again and is on track to fall below a critical threshold in 2020, according to a new forecast by the Bureau of Reclamation.
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by Tyler Durden
Fri, 08/17/2018 - 17:05
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-08-17/leaking-las-vegas-wests-biggest-reservoir-nears-critical-threshold
After ‘Peak Water,’ the Days of Plenty Are Over
Sabrina Ho Yen Yin
15 August 2018
http://glacierhub.org/2018/08/15/after-peak-water-days-of-plenty-over/
The Water Wars of Arizona
Attracted by lax regulations, industrial agriculture has descended on a remote valley, depleting its aquifer — leaving many residents with no water at all.
By Noah Gallagher Shannon
July 19, 2018
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/magazine/the-water-wars-of-arizona.html
TEDxCapeTown-Caron von Zeil-Reclaiming Camissa
apparently, not so. seems to be some sort of political football.
read it and weep for humanity.
Cape’s spring water wasted
CAPE TIMES / 14 JUNE 2013, 2:06PM / MELANIE GOSLING
Cape Town. 130613. Caron Van Zeil in one of many water tunnel systems that run though Cape Town City.
Cape Town - For eight years Caron von Zeil of Newlands has worked on Reclaim Camissa, a project that uncovered and documented the vast amount of fresh water that flows to waste underneath Cape Town.
Her work has been cutting edge: most of the springs and rivers that flow from Table Mountain have been paved over and forgotten, and every day millions of litres of fresh mountain water rushes away unused into drains or sewers.
Von Zeil’s archive research showed that historically there were 36 springs in the City Bowl. She has uncovered 25 springs and four underground rivers. The City of Cape Town has only 13 springs on their records. Parliament is sitting on two springs and a huge underground reservoir...
https://www.iol.co.za/capetimes/capes-spring-water-wasted-1532571
Where the world’s running out of water, in one map
By Brad Plumer August 10, 2012
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2012/08/10/where-the-worlds-running-out-of-water-in-one-map/?utm_term=.c67aa2d0b74c
NOTE: THIS IS A DATED MAP; THE WORLD WATER SITUATION IS NOW MUCH WORSE.
Why Cape Town Is Running Out of Water, and Who’s Next
The South African city plans to shut off the taps to 4 million people. But it's just one of many cities around the world facing a future with too little water.
By Craig Welch
PUBLISHED February 2, 2018 in National Geographic
https://relay.nationalgeographic.com/proxy/distribution/public/amp/2018/02/cape-town-running-out-of-water-drought-taps-shutoff-other-cities
A Kingdom from Dust
By Mark Arax
January 31, 2018
On a summer day in the San Joaquin Valley, 101 in the shade, I merge onto Highway 99 past downtown Fresno and steer through the vibrations of heat. I’m headed to the valley’s deep south, to a little farmworker town in a far corner of Kern County called Lost Hills. This is where the biggest irrigated farmer in the world — the one whose mad plantings of almonds and pistachios have triggered California’s nut rush — keeps on growing, no matter drought or flood. He doesn’t live in Lost Hills. He lives in Beverly Hills. How has he managed to outwit nature for so long?
https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust
Cape Town faces Day Zero: what happens when the city turns off the taps?
by Jonathan Watts in Cape Town
Sat 3 Feb 2018 03.00 EST
The term Peak Water is the point when water which was once abundant is or has become more scarce. Indicators of this point will center on the cost of water and its availability. The latter indicates to users that conservation has now become imperiative to preserve this valuable commodity.
Unfortunately any commodity which once was abundant will always be treated as abundant even when the warning signs indicate a scarcity is developing and that conservation is warranted. The world is facing this predicament as population growth continues almost unabated, but commodities including water are not increasing.
The purpose of this board is to discuss the trends that are affecting the availability of pure water found deep in the ground, and in fresh water lakes, streams and rivers.
Ground water is found in aquifers. "An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, silt, or clay) from which groundwater can be usefully extracted using a water well."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer
Without adequate pure water, all you can envision of the earth is a picture of a desert void of plant growth. Simply put, life will cease to exist without pure water.
The salt water of the earth is much more plentiful and supports marine organisms, which are important food source, but cannot be readily used directly to drink or irrigate the land masses.
Pure water, on the other hand, is nesessary for every human being and animal. Compromised water will adversely affect people's health. Prolonged consumption of impure water can have dire results.
USGS Groundwater Watch
http://groundwaterwatch.usgs.gov/
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