Posted on 06/17/2015 7:06:47 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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.
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......groundwater reserves take thousands of years to accumulate and only slowly recharge with water from snowmelt and rains. Now, as drilling for water has taken off across the globe, the hidden water reservoirs are being stressed. Underground aquifers supply 35 percent of the water used by humans worldwide. Demand is even greater in times of drought. Rain-starved California is currently tapping aquifers for 60 percent of its water use, up from the usual 40 percent....
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But I’m predicting they’ll be talking about great lake levels rising by the end of summer.
The Oceans are evaporating?
It won’t stop raining here in the Twin Cities. Two years in a row. Cutting the grass three times a week and I don’t fertilize.
Explain this to people in the Houston area....
What about the water cycle....I”m sure it’s going somewhere...
The upper midwest has been a rain forest for a couple of years now.
The Earth has the same amount of water that it did 5000 years ago. None has been shipped off-planet. When you put millions of people in a desert, though, you have a local issue. Perhaps they need to move.
Same here in Indiana. The rain is always present day in and day out.
Hard rains too.
At least we’ll have a bullet train
First the ice caps were melting and coastal cities were to be flooded, now we are running out of water. Next year there will be no change in the amount of water and that will be a worry to somebody.
Liberals are trans-crisis. They transition from fictional crisis to fictional crisis.
Finally sold my Mom’s house, so I only have one lawn to mow, three times a week!
;-)
I hear that the sky is falling too
Why?
Well, two winters ago we had near record snowfall in Illinois, parts of Indiana and Michigan, all of which border Lake Michigan (where alot of that snow fell into.) Lake Michigan also FROZE OVER 95% which helps retain the water.
This past winter we got a normal amount of snow but had a colder than normal winter which caused Lake Michigan to once again freeze ofer 95% or more of the lakes surface, which again, protects the water from evaporation.
That ice also takes a long time to melt and clear the lake, keeping water temps down which affects the areas around the lake with colder temperatures.
There is no "global drought." It's just another scheme world governments are running to try and gain more control over our every day lives.
Time to overthrow these world governments and put more rational, sane people in office.
Oh no....we’re all gonna die!
Same here about 30 miles Southwest of Chicago.
Why is NASA sticking its nose where it doesn’t belong? Their job is Muslim outreach.
I have to mow with the deck all the way up to keep it from clogging.
I need to figure out a way to mow with a wet vacuum attached.
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