vtsnowedin wrote:Some 750,000 gallons of water go over Niagara falls every second on it's way to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. That is about 122 gallons per day for every person in North America. So we don't have a water shortage just a transportation and logistics problem.
Subjectivist wrote:vtsnowedin wrote:Some 750,000 gallons of water go over Niagara falls every second on it's way to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. That is about 122 gallons per day for every person in North America. So we don't have a water shortage just a transportation and logistics problem.
The Missiouri river flows over the Ogalala Aquifer on the surface making it eminently more useful for irrigating Kansas and Nebraska.
dohboi wrote:Yes, I also could care less about golf courses.
But I was hoping you could enlighten me on why water is needed for coal and oil production, and what kinds of quantities we are talking about here.
Thanks ahead of time for any light you can throw in my generally dim direction!
Subjectivist wrote:dohboi wrote:Yes, I also could care less about golf courses.
But I was hoping you could enlighten me on why water is needed for coal and oil production, and what kinds of quantities we are talking about here.
Thanks ahead of time for any light you can throw in my generally dim direction!
Coal has to be washed after it is mined to separate it from the clay and rock it is mixed with.
ROCKMAN wrote:dohboi - Not being defensive at all. Just pointing out the spin as opposed to the facts. Spin that seems to have sucked you in perhaps. lol. And again the USGA lumps coal mining and oil/NG extraction together as the "mining" category. Which it says accounts for 1%. I would have thought a stronger reaction would have registered over from power generation utilizing fossil fuels consuming half the fresh water in the US. That surprised me given how many point to ag as the big bad water consumer.
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