Posted on 06/16/2015 12:50:40 PM PDT by redreno
Did the evaporation - rain - drain - soak cycle suddenly stop working?
Did the water fly off into outer space?
The earth is a closed system. We have exactly the same amount of water today as we had a million years ago. And the human population is trivial noise in the movement & consumption & elimination of water.
If we pump water into the ground, we are damned because it creates earthquakes.
If we pump water out of the ground, we are damned because the aquifers run dry.
Terrance McCoy and this guy can’t compare notes or something
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3300920/posts
Underground....
Since this is a headline, I find it hard to blame the article writers for it. Obviously, the Earth (world) is as close to a 'closed' ecosystem as is known. As a closed system you cannot lose water without transforming it. So the headline is NONSENSE!
As for the real problem, the older methods of getting usable potable water are no longer sufficient for foreseeable future requirements. This has happened in the past and thus we went from drinking from streams, to building aqueducts to piping systems to drilling for ground water. There will be tech solutions that we already know to new ones we may discover.
I have lived in countries where every house had a cistern and now live in an area with a reverse-osmosis desalination plant to supplement other sources with an available 25million daily gallons. Obviously this is a higher cost water and so should be used only when necessary.
It is ALWAYS a good thing to look ahead and see problems BEFORE they become emergencies. However SCARE HEADLINES like this one only make people ignore a problem.
What the heck is a Sr Water Scientist?
So when water evaporates, it just vanishes from existence?
I was considering building an ARK here in MN.
Its been wetter than Seattle this Spring.
HA! When I learned the ‘V’ (1983 TV series) secret mission, I spewed my coffee. If the space-capable aliens wanted water, it would have been a LOT EASIER to harvest ice in space for it. As for their hunger for leg-of-man, I refer you to Soylent Green!
“Climate Watering”
“Corn is a huge user of water.”
A lot of people forget that most of the agriculture west of about central Nebraska is dependent on irrigation, and a lot of that comes out of the aquifers, not from rivers.
Total water use for irrigating crops is actually trending down.
Todd C. Frankel needs to kill himself so that he will stop using water. He needs to lead the way for others who are concerned about water due to overpopulation.
Besides, I'm here in Texas, I'd love to send some their way...
Its a regular Waterworld here in the upper midwest in normal times.
-- Depletion of the ozone layer
-- Arsenic in our water
-- Radon
-- SARS
-- Ebola
-- Melting polar ice caps
-- Hungry polar bears
-- The coming Caliphate
-- Economic collapse
-- Bitcoin
-- Destruction of the rainforests
-- Acid rain
-- Global cooling
-- Global darkening
-- The Exxon Valdez
-- Three Mile Island/Fukashima
-- Plastic bags in the ocean
-- Agent Orange
-- Agent 007?
Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen.
Maybe not much *on*, but a whole lot *within* ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3300920/posts
http://water.usgs.gov/edu/gwdepletion.html
The Ogallala aquifer in the midwest (Kansas, Nebraska, etc.) has for a long time now had more water taken out than naturally goes into it.
So to prevent the eventually starvation of millions in the distant future they propose to starve millions NOW?
That’s that liberals are really proposing!
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