Shocking satellite images of lakes show extent of man's impact on world's water supply

Daily Mail ^ | July 2, 2010 | Staff

[C19fan]

These dramatic before-and-after satellite photos show the terrifying effect man is having on the world's resources.

Taken over nearly 40 years, photographs show the drying up of several bodies of water around the world - receding as mankind's demand for water grows. Included in the shocking collection is the once mighty Aral Sea in Central Asia. The expanse of water, like several others across the globe, has been reduced to worryingly sparse levels. In April the situation at the Aral Sea was described as 'one of the planet's worst environmental disasters' by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

[Redleg Duke]

It is funny, but when I went to college in the 60s, we were taught that "matter cannot either be created or destroyed".

Hence, how can humans be able to "produce too much carbon" if it was always there?

The Greens are the ultimate in "NMBY" mindset. They don't want so many humans on their Earth.

[TomGuy]

With the growth of mass-agriculture to feed a severely ballooning global population, water demand has begun to perilously outstrip supply, making disasters like the Aral Sea a grim and alarming likelihood for the future.

Ahhhh. So, ballooning population is the problem. Okay: easy solution: get rid of the people and that will cure the problem of decreasing water supply.

[/s]

[relictele]

And those damned Great Lakes! Drain them now!

[Pan_Yan]

I know how we can help save the earth’s water. Let’s get rid of all the double taxes and stupid regulations that are driving manufacturing jobs out of the United States. Then goods can be produced here where the environmental standards are high rather than in third world hell holes where they dump every known toxin into the local river. Same thing with oil and gas production.

[SuperSonic]

No mention of this in the article:

USAID Helps Restore Iraqi Marshlands Destroyed by Saddam Hussein

[metesky]

High school freshman science...

[LRS]

The planet has the same amount of water on it that it did millions of years ago.

Ahhh, Scottie beamed up a lot of water into space in that Star Trek save the whales movie...

[kidd]

THE HEADLINE IS BOGUS

This has nothing to do with the “Worlds Water Supply” - and has every thing to do with Russians mismanaging the water supply to this lake.

(worth a repeat)

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

Okay, you got me on that, but Scottie also returned the water to Earth in the future when he unloaded trhe whales.

Sorry for the triple posting. Slow computer this morning and lack of coffee.

[Haiku Guy]

What can you say? Communism kills. No news there.

Some commie thug thought it was a good idea to drain a sea, and he had the power to do it. That’s pretty much the end of that.

Similarly with the Iraqi marshes. Saddam drained them in order to control the people and for a strategic buffer with Iran. He was a thug with a plan, and that was the end of it.

[Zeppelin]

I just checked Google Maps, satellite view...I’m not sure when the Google satellite image was taken, but it shows the Aral Sea somewhere between the 1999 and 2009 levels.

Perhaps the 2009 satellite image shown in the article was taken during a dry season.

[tx_eggman]

I have noticed a strong trend among the Greens -- carbon has receded as a focal point and water has taken its place. Humans used to be bad because we produced too much carbon, which warmed the planet and would eventually kill us all. As the fraud of Global Warming has become apparent, they've shifted the storyline. Now, humans are bad because we use too much water, which causes shortages, and will eventually kill us all.

Dong, ding, ding, ding ....

We have a winner.

Water is the next battleground as stastists all over the world look for things they have to save us from ... so they can justify their need control us.

[LRS]

*LMAO!* Touche!

[tx_eggman]

The planet has the same amount of water on it that it did millions of years ago. It changes places and forms constantly, but it’s the same volume of water. If it has left these lakes in China due to poor land and water management that just means it has relocated elsewhere.

The planet has the same amount of water on it that it did millions of years ago. It changes places and forms constantly, but it’s the same volume of water. If it has left these lakes in China due to poor land and water management that just means it has relocated elsewhere.

The planet has the same amount of water on it that it did millions of years ago. It changes places and forms constantly, but it’s the same volume of water. If it has left these lakes in China due to poor land and water management that just means it has relocated elsewhere.

You're stuttering again ...

[TomGuy]

Isn’t water pretty much a zero sum game?

To repeat a phrase popularized by Senator Ernest Hollings: "There's too much consumin' goin' on out there."

Ergo, there ain't enough peein' goin' on out there, apparently. People must be hoarding their 'outflow'.

[McGruff]

We're all gonna die!

[txhurl]

Isn’t water pretty much a zero sum game?

---

It is, and the only way to ‘disappear’ it is to lock it up in plants, or God Forbid, humans and animals.

[Ax]

While the Aral Sea is an unmitigated disaster, Lake Baikal in Siberia is another story. Even the Soviets couldn’t mess that one up. Lake Baikal contains about 20% of the world’s fresh water reserves. The lake is over a mile deep and if it were to be drained, it would take all the water in the Great Lakes to refill it. Only the Caspian Sea has a greater volume of fresh water.

[mikelets456]

The Liberal’s solution.... end mankind!

I agree, so lets start with Liberals, Progressives and commies... there, SOLVED!

[Haiku Guy]

The Soviets weren't all bad...

They created this lake with an atomic blast in order to store water for crop irrigation. It was all perfectly healthy and safe, but for some reason, nobody lives around there, anymore...