That surface water you show is not terribly much...
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 ...
“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!!!
“most of the agriculture west of about central Nebraska is dependent on irrigation”
See (my) post #60
LOL! Soylent Green is even older than V.
:)
Maybe they should have added the word “fresh” ahead of the word “water”.
NASA a Muslim outreach program.
Consider this... http://www.islam-watch.org/warner/taqiyya-islamic-principle-lying-for-allah.htm
“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!
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.
The water is all disappearing into space on fairy dust.
And being dumped into the ocean by left-wing environmentalists.
“Where’s it going?”
Aliens took it and removed it from the planet. We need Kirk and the Enterprise to intervene.
We’re Dooooooommmmmmmmmeeeeeddddd!!!!!
Why couldnt coastal areas use salt water for toilets.... that could save a lot of water for showers with real showerheads and lawns...
Water does not disappear it just goes somewhere else.
That surface water you show is not terribly much...
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.
Read the preceding FR article. (See #74, here, above..)
Make that,
"The real problem is that we’re drowning in LIBERAL idiots."
... and you have THE post of the whole thread!
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.
You should've told him, "Correction, professor, it would feel like a wet cue ball. With gravity. And an atmosphere. It'd feel weird!" :-)
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