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New NASA data show how the world is running out of water
http://www.washingtonpost.com ^ | June 16 at 2:01 PM | By Todd C. Frankel

Posted on 06/16/2015 12:50:40 PM PDT by redreno

Drought-stricken California is not the only place draining underground aquifers in the hunt for fresh water.

It’s happening across the world, according to two new studies by U.S. researchers released Tuesday.

Twenty-one of the world’s 37 largest aquifers – in locations from India and China to the United States and France -- have passed their sustainability tipping points, meaning more water is being removed than replaced from these vital underground reservoirs. Thirteen of 37 aquifers fell at rates that put them into the most troubled category.

“The situation is quite critical,” said Jay Famiglietti, senior water scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California Irvine-led studies’ principal investigator.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: california; china; doomed; drought; france; globalwarminghoax; governormoonbeam; india; irvine; jayfamiglietti; jerrybrown; jpl; moonbeam; nasa; popefrancis; romancatholicism; uofcalifornia; water
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To: 21twelve

“Part of the problem in the U.S. is farmers switching over to corn for ethanol”

“Subsidize failure and you get more failure”

Aaaaaaah Government!!!


61 posted on 06/16/2015 3:03:52 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: VanShuyten

“most of the agriculture west of about central Nebraska is dependent on irrigation”

See (my) post #60


62 posted on 06/16/2015 3:06:36 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: SES1066

LOL! Soylent Green is even older than V.
:)


63 posted on 06/16/2015 3:11:43 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Sopater

Maybe they should have added the word “fresh” ahead of the word “water”.


64 posted on 06/16/2015 3:16:11 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: redreno

NASA a Muslim outreach program.
Consider this... http://www.islam-watch.org/warner/taqiyya-islamic-principle-lying-for-allah.htm


65 posted on 06/16/2015 3:16:23 PM PDT by Tigen (I shall raise you one .)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

“Thorium —> Nuclear Power —> Desalinization”

You are correct, of course. And we need to get help from the Israeli’s on the desalinization.

The world is NOT running out of water. And as far as California goes, water to San Francisco and Sacramento, and especially Jerry’s house, needs to be cut off. F... the libtards where they live!


66 posted on 06/16/2015 3:22:48 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea (I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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To: Steely Tom
Where’s it going?

Into those damn plastic bottles that no one can go anywhere without. And oh yeah right back to other parts of the earth, lots of it into the the rich gaia worshippers lawns, pools and water features.

67 posted on 06/16/2015 5:27:30 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: redreno

The water is all disappearing into space on fairy dust.

And being dumped into the ocean by left-wing environmentalists.


68 posted on 06/16/2015 5:35:17 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Steely Tom

“Where’s it going?”

Aliens took it and removed it from the planet. We need Kirk and the Enterprise to intervene.


69 posted on 06/16/2015 5:44:28 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland
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To: redreno

We’re Dooooooommmmmmmmmeeeeeddddd!!!!!


70 posted on 06/16/2015 5:58:28 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: GGpaX4DumpedTea

Why couldnt coastal areas use salt water for toilets.... that could save a lot of water for showers with real showerheads and lawns...


71 posted on 06/16/2015 6:36:11 PM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: redreno

Water does not disappear it just goes somewhere else.


72 posted on 06/16/2015 11:15:50 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Barack Obama is not inarguably sane.)
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To: redreno
Water recycles and is frequently found falling free from the sky.
NASA fresh out of muzzie outreach ideas?
73 posted on 06/17/2015 6:08:16 AM PDT by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Sopater; Theoria; Mariner; LibWhacker
Actually (from the immediately preceding FR post by LibWhacker) Study: Deep beneath the earth, more water than in all the oceans combined" and a link provided by Theoria:

That surface water you show is not terribly much...

74 posted on 06/17/2015 6:21:05 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: TXnMA

I heard a prof say to me if you could hold the earth in your hand it would feel smoother than a que ball. I assuming he meant earth sans water.


75 posted on 06/17/2015 6:23:25 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: onona; Steely Tom
"Where’s it going?"

Read the preceding FR article. (See #74, here, above..)

76 posted on 06/17/2015 6:24:50 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: SpaceBar
"The real problem is that we’re drowning in idiots."

Make that,

"The real problem is that we’re drowning in LIBERAL idiots."

... and you have THE post of the whole thread!

77 posted on 06/17/2015 6:28:57 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: central_va
The diameter of the Earth is 7,918 miles, and the maximum relief (top of Mt. Everest to the bottom of the deepest ocean) is 12.3 miles.

on a 2" cue ball that would be a total surface roughness of 3 mils (.003") -- or about the diameter of a human hair or the thickness of a sheet of paper.

Since Everest and the Challenger deep near Guam are widely separated, your fingers probably would not be able to detect the surface roughness at all.

So -- I agree with your prof:

"The earth's surface IS almost as smooth as a cue ball!"

(To make it visible on maps, Google Earth, the above APOD image, etc, we use relief exaggeration and strong shadowing -- otherwise,the relief would, essentially, be invisible at computer screen scale.

78 posted on 06/17/2015 7:50:55 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's current alias... "Barack": Allah's current ally...)
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To: TXnMA
That surface water you show is not terribly much...

It's plenty.
79 posted on 06/17/2015 7:54:52 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: central_va
I assuming he meant earth sans water.

You should've told him, "Correction, professor, it would feel like a wet cue ball. With gravity. And an atmosphere. It'd feel weird!" :-)

80 posted on 06/17/2015 10:11:54 AM PDT by LibWhacker ("Every Muslim act of terror is follow by a political act of cover-up." -Daniel Greenfiel)
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