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

[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.

[Steely Tom]

Where’s it going?

[jjotto]

Think ‘Peak Oil’.

[meowmeow]

Georgia apparently (not ours, the other one)

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Thorium --> Nuclear Power --> Desalinization

There. Fixed it.

[BlackAdderess]

Into too many people in too small a place.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Maybe that’s what set off the Global Warming crowd. Fresh water aquifers are draining and causing see levels to rise. Their conclusion? Ice HAS to be melting.

[Gaffer]

I really, really just don’t believe these peoples with their agendas anymore. They could be complaining about the dearth of mushrooms on the moon for all I care. Just crickets here in my little world.

[cripplecreek]

Apparently its all coming to Michigan. Texas has gotten a few sprinkles as well.

[Vendome]

Down the toilet?

[wiggen]

Stop making sense.

[Resolute Conservative]

It is somewhere, maybe China is buying that all up as well.

[BlackAdderess]

I’m sorry :(

[Sopater]

Oh, there it is. I found it.

[umgud]

Dump the world’s undesirables, especially politicians.

[onona]

ha ha, my first thought too !

Where’s it going?

[3boysdad]

Geez, not this sh!t again!

[3boysdad]

Geez, not this sh!t again!

[circlecity]

"Into too many people in too small a place."

that all gets recycled eventually.

[driftdiver]

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

“Climate warming is expected to result in rising sea level.”