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The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater - GMDino - 12-10-2015 http://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/groundwater/ Quote:Much of the planet relies on groundwater. And in places around the world – from the United States to Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America – so much water is pumped from the ground that aquifers are being rapidly depleted and wells are going dry. Much more at the link. RE: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater - Benton - 12-10-2015 It's been a looming problem for a while. And it will only get worse as we continue to have more and more people, which all require more water and more food. RE: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater - Mike M (the other one) - 12-10-2015 Nothing that a good all out World War can't solve. RE: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater - michaelsean - 12-10-2015 I was thinking all those hurricanes from global warming woukd replenish it. Actually I have no idea about this. RE: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater - Rotobeast - 12-10-2015 (12-10-2015, 11:01 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I was thinking all those hurricanes from global warming woukd replenish it. I would have thought that all the liberal tears from the Bush era would have done the trick. ![]() RE: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater - SunsetBengal - 12-10-2015 The groundwater isn't "vanquishing", It's just being used in a faster fashion, than is being cycled back into the aquafers. Water never goes away, it is either being used, or it is cycling back into the ground. The Earth's ecosystem is finite. RE: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater - JustWinBaby - 12-11-2015 So we're running out of fresh water and the oceans are rising. Solution: desalinization. Give me something difficult. RE: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater - Benton - 12-11-2015 (12-11-2015, 01:17 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: So we're running out of fresh water and the oceans are rising. Solution: desalinization. http://www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_25859513/nations-largest-ocean-desalination-plant-goes-up-near Quote:Desalinated water typically costs about $2,000 an acre foot -- roughly the amount of water a family of five uses in a year. The cost is about double that of water obtained from building a new reservoir or recycling wastewater, according to a 2013 study from the state Department of Water Resources. In the end, like with anything, it boils down to money. $2,000 a year isn't a lot to a lot of people. On the other hand, about 3 billion people exist on about $900 a year. So that would probably put a crimp in their ability to live more than a week. RE: The Global Crisis of Vanishing Groundwater - JustWinBaby - 12-11-2015 (12-11-2015, 12:03 PM)Benton Wrote: In the end, like with anything, it boils down to money. $2,000 a year isn't a lot to a lot of people. On the other hand, about 3 billion people exist on about $900 a year. So that would probably put a crimp in their ability to live more than a week. All the climate change protocols have significant large costs associated with them, too. $2000 doesn't sound like anything prohibitive - in comparison to a lot of other "pssing into the wind" costs - for a family of 5. And as the technology improves, costs come down. Plus alternative/renewable fuel sources drive the cost down further. |