eugene wrote: we are facing the end and it's not some sin caused thing like the religious fanatics believe.
India is already facing a water crisis—and it is only going to get worse
Water scarcity has begun early in India. Corporations and farmers have been guzzling surface water, groundwater levels have been reducing, and the amount of pollutants in water is increasingly rapidly, according to a new report by the World Resources Institute.
http://qz.com/353707/india-is-already-f ... get-worse/
pstarr wrote:Let's be very clear with our hysteria. It is not our numbers that will be culled by the coming apocalypse. We comfortable Americans are safe in the New World with water, arable land, and entire ecosystems that will adjust to peak oil and AGW. We will be inconvenienced but not disseminated like those in Asia, Africa and Europe.
pstarr wrote:That's a plan Greg. The ME lacks arable land, water but has oil. Europe has arable land, water but no oil. Maybe they can work out an arrangement. Without the US.
Synapsid wrote:Tanada,
"...the Hopi civilization of the Southwest USA..."
You're referring to either the Hohokam or the Anasazi. The Hohokam are the ones who depended on irrigation as well as controlled slope runoff.
The Hopi are doing fine.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
eugene wrote: And the energy to run their equipment. Name of the game, we are facing the end and it's not some sin caused thing like the religious fanatics believe.
dohboi wrote:
But I'm open to other peoples insights on how we waste water. I'll just kick in also that pretty much any kind of lawn or non-native grass is stupid and wasteful, as is using potable water to flush sh!t down the toilet.
Ibon wrote:dohboi wrote:
But I'm open to other peoples insights on how we waste water. I'll just kick in also that pretty much any kind of lawn or non-native grass is stupid and wasteful, as is using potable water to flush sh!t down the toilet.
We have guests from California. They take fast showers and wash the dishes with minimal water. All of their landscaping back at home is now xero scaping. Here we have abundant water and we do not need to practice this level of discipline. These folks are so conditioned that they keep right on treating water here like a precious valuable resource.
It didn't take that many drought years to instill this kind of discipline. It can be just as quickly unwound if abundant rains return even if abundant rains do not recharge an aquifer that took hundreds of thousands of years to form.
It is however encouraging to see conservation really practiced as these Californians demonstrate here.
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