The Ogallala Aquifer: When will the wells run dry? What then?

[surada]

Their running out of water too.

They have lots and lots of desalination plants since 1950. Now they are using solar to desalinate water plus new nuclear power desalination plants produce lots of cheap electricity.

The recharge dams have been very successful.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

would it surprise you if the other aquifers are running out of water.

not in the least

 

[Penelope]

Yep....it's water that cannot be recovered.... Once it has been polluted with metal in that manner it cannot be processed back to
Potable....

Jo

or oil

 

[surada]

or oil

Who is polluting water with oil?

 

[Penelope]

The wife and I will be doing just that in 6 years max.

I don't need to worry about it. I will be dead.

 

[Mac-7]

You have low expectations if future generations, how are they supposed to deal with it.

There are a couple of possible responses

One is to stop basing agriculture on exports

We must feed Americans first and our closest allies second

If you are an America hating foreigner tough luck

We can also distill water from the Gulf and pipe it up to West Texas

 

[Penelope]

Who is polluting water with oil?

The oil pipeline that GOP insist on.

 

[iku]

Yep....it's water that cannot be recovered.... Once it has been polluted with metal in that manner it cannot be processed back to
Potable....

Jo

Drinking water with trace lithium is just fine.

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[surada]

There are a couple of possible responses

One is to stop basing agriculture on exports

We must feed Americans first and our closest allies second

If you are an America hating foreigner tough luck

We can also distill water from the Gulf and pipe it up to West Texas

The problem is that politicians would rather fight Disney and ban books than do the work.

 

[surada]

The oil pipeline that GOP insist on.

Keystone XL? That's a boondoggle that only benefits the Chinese.

 

[Penelope]

There is nothing that can be done about it today.

BTW, if it happens after the Rapture, I'm sure the new King will be able to figure it out.

There is no King, you might as well forget about the rapture.

 

[Penelope]

Keystone XL? That's a boondoggle that only benefits the Chinese.

The GOP is insisting upon it.

 

[surada]

The GOP is insisting upon it.

Lol So they're stupid.

 

[ReinyDays]

Whoo-Hoo! A combo western water/CC religion thread!

Your CC crack is warranted ... but Western water problems are real ... food grows year-round in the southwestern deserts ... if and only if we get water shipped to these places ... and agriculture is a far far better way to use this water than [blanking] old people in Phoenix ... these folks can move back to Fargo for all I care ...

I disagree with the OP in one important fact ... "the Midwest is where most our food comes from. Corn belt." ... this is where a large percentage of our meat comes from ... all that corn is for animal food, not humans ... domestically grown human foods are grown in California ... roughly 2/3's the nation's domestic vegetable production ... shipping by electrified train or semi-truck is an efficient use of our "dwindling" fossil fuel supply ... whether it is dwindling or not is a different debate, all we can say today is we'll run out of water before we run out of carbon fuels ...

"Inflation in the food sector" ... that's funny ... the climate in the Midwest is "humid" ... meaning it rains year-round ... that means it's strictly greed to pump water out of the aquifer ... with the 90% reduction in meat consumption, farmers will have to grow human food ... which will glut the market and drive prices down relative to the general economy ... inflation will be because we "printed" $250 trillion to bail out ADM, "too big to fail" ...

Water wars will kill many many more people than global warming ... the American Midwest will be the last to fight ... it rains there ...

 

[Mac-7]

The problem is that politicians would rather fight Disney and ban books than do the work.

Or corrupt children with a perverted unnatural lifestyle

And flood the country with foreign children that are unwanted and unneeded

 

[surada]

Or corrupt children with a perverted unnatural lifestyle

And flood the country with foreign children that are unwanted and unneeded

These guys are creating battles where none exists... and you pearl clutching hysterics are off to the races.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

"Inflation in the food sector" ... that's funny ... the climate in the Midwest is "humid" ... meaning it rains year-round ... that means it's strictly greed to pump water out of the aquifer ...

Except that climate has changed and the rain patterns along with it. While we are still getting close to the same amount of rain it now comes in far fewer days with much longer time between rains. This hurts the crops on both ends as too much water at one time is bad and too long between rains is bad.

Irrigation is being added at a quick pace as it is the only way they will be able to keep working the land here.

 

[multivita-man]

A lot of it is drought. Conservatives, they don't realize precious earth. They don't want to have clean energy and the GOP is doing all to fight it.

It's drought but it's also overuse and waste. That's why I think sometimes discussing climate change misses the mark in terms of accurately describing our problem, which is overshoot. The 8 billion people (and counting) who live on earth are using resources far beyond the capacity of our planet to replace them.

Climate change is really more about humanity and all multicellular life potentially dying off as a result of our own waste product.

 

[multivita-man]

And this is why in the end we are fucked. People would rather line and up like the monkeys at the zoo and throw shit at each other than talk about how to deal with these sorts of problems.

When partisanship is more important than water you know we are a dead country that just has not realized it yet.

Indeed. Definitely seeing strong signs that our political system and society are systems that are beginning to fail, and we're not even seeing a whole lot of actual scarcity yet - just the perception of scarcity that has been manufactured by a political class that wants permanent inequality. When the actual scarcity gets here, holy shit...my popcorn bucket won't possibly be big enough.

 

[Mac-7]

These guys are creating battles where none exists... and you pearl clutching hysterics are off to the races.

You dont have to agree with our concerns

But that wont stop us from pushing back against the perverted agenda of the left