The Ogallala Aquifer that runs through eight states is quickly running dry. It supplies water to the American Breadbasket of the Great Plains, which is an agricultural region that feeds much of the world.
“We’re headed for a brick wall at 100 miles per hour,” states James Mahan, a plant physiologist at the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service lab in Lubbock, TX.
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stop sending our water over seas
Well, we need to come up with an alternative, don’t just give up. Desalinate sea water if we have to. There are things we can do…
Open the dams
Dumbass the world is bigger than us 99% water read MFs
First of all water does not get used up. It just moves. From one place to another and in most cases back again. There is almost the same amount of water on this planet as there was from the beginning. The aquifer can be converted into a cistern and be refilled.
Also this one small area doesn’t feed billions of people. This is just sensationalism. News people and Researchers should be looking for a way to restore the water level rather than dwelling on the loss. How long have we known about this and done nothing? We should look toward using precipitation to refill the aquifer to relieve the problem before it worsens. I wonder how much we are going to waste in study and exploitation of a fixable problem rather than fixing it? http://to-be-prepared.com
First of all water does not get used up. It just moves. From one place to another and in most cases back again. There is almost the same amount of water on this planet as there was from the beginning. The aquifer can be converted into a cistern and be refilled.
Also this one small area doesn’t feed billions of people. This is just sensationalism. News people and Researchers should be looking for a way to restore the water level rather than dwelling on the loss. How long have we known about this and done nothing? We should look toward using precipitation to refill the aquifer to relieve the problem before it worsens. I wonder how much we are going to waste in study and exploitation of a fixable problem rather than fixing it? http://to-be-prepared.com
NBC? billions could starve? Nothing but a scare tactic. This country is full of some very intelligent people who will find a way to get water there.
I know people don’t want to believe this, but in Florida they have bull dozed swamp land to build subdivisions…. Don’t come crying when you have no drinking water. Just ask the people of St. Petersburg, Florida!!!!
That’s a stretch. No doubt he might want to but also no doubt that the USA is still too self reliant to follow this moron much longer. At least I hope so.
It’s not the water drying up, it the environmentalist preventing the water form being pumped, ie the delta smelt and the California central valley.