USA Can Still Take Our Water

[AnnaG]

I have been reading a little bit. I started out reading a little bit about the history of the Los Angeles River and the Aquaduct. Then I went to Las Vegas water and found this:

Las Vegas Running Out of Water Means Dimming Los Angeles Lights - Bloomberg.com

In it is a plan to steal water from ranchers to give to LV residents. It seems to me that LV caused an awful lot of environmental damage by stealing water from other places just to build a playground in the first place.

Then there is this:

Water upheavals are intensifying because the population is growing fastest in places where fresh water is either scarce or polluted. Dry areas are becoming drier and wet areas wetter as the oceans and atmosphere warm.

and this

In 2002, 8 percent of the world suffered chronic shortages. By 2050, 40 percent of the projected world population, or about 4 billion people, will lack adequate water as entire regions turn dry, the UN predicts.

But, keep polluting and increasing the population everywhere. Brilliant.

 

[ironsides]

Government projects at least 36 states will face shortages within five years

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn’t have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York’s reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year.
Across America, the picture is critically clear — the nation’s freshwater supplies can no longer quench its thirst.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21494919/

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/prelim/drought/palmer.html

I have been reading up on the subject also and there is no question water will be a problem soon.

 

[JLM]

It'd be a lot easier for you folks to set up desalinisation and water-recycling plants.

That's what I was going to say before I saw your post, plus maybe dig or drill a few wells. I said it before - the amount of water on the planet never changes and it's impossible to "waste" water- it just goes right back into the circuit and gets purified at the same time. :smile::smile::smile:

 

[AnnaG]

That's what I was going to say before I saw your post, plus maybe dig or drill a few wells. I said it before - the amount of water on the planet never changes and it's impossible to "waste" water- it just goes right back into the circuit and gets purified at the same time. :smile::smile::smile:

We do waste water. Pollution is one way we do that. We use it faster than the planet can purify it. So, the world's supply of fresh water is diminishing.

 

[ironsides]

We do waste water. Pollution is one way we do that. We use it faster than the planet can purify it. So, the world's supply of fresh water is diminishing.

There ya go, beat me to it also, it is just pure clean drinking water we are running out of. Seems that here in Florida we are using recycled water at least for farming, lawns etc..

 

[JLM]

We do waste water. Pollution is one way we do that. We use it faster than the planet can purify it. So, the world's supply of fresh water is diminishing.

WAter pollution is just temporary.

 

[AnnaG]

WAter pollution is just temporary.

Irrelevant. We are polluting it constanty and using it constantly at a rate faster than it can replenish.

Think of the fresh water supply of the Earth as the water in a well. The well holds 60 gallons at a time and refreshes at a rate of 2 gallons every hour. You have a shower, wife has a shower, kids have showers, you wash the car, wife waters her garden. The 60 gallons run out and you have to use the toilet. You flush and nothing happens because the refill rate of the well is only a gallon an hour. The water will come back but in the meantime you can't flush for two hours, the wife can't cook dinner for an hour after you've flushed, the kids can't make Koolaid, etc. But the water will come back ...... eventually.

 

[JLM]

Irrelevant. We are polluting it constanty and using it constantly at a rate faster than it can replenish.

Think of the fresh water supply of the Earth as the water in a well. The well holds 60 gallons at a time and refreshes at a rate of 2 gallons every hour. You have a shower, wife has a shower, kids have showers, you wash the car, wife waters her garden. The 60 gallons run out and you have to use the toilet. You flush and nothing happens because the refill rate of the well is only a gallon an hour. The water will come back but in the meantime you can't flush for two hours, the wife can't cook dinner for an hour after you've flushed, the kids can't make Koolaid, etc. But the water will come back ...... eventually.

Why couldn't I have thought of that? :lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[L Gilbert]

Why couldn't I have thought of that? :lol::lol::lol::lol:

You probably haven't studied the water situation as much as Anna. Just a guess.