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Kathleen McCroskey's avatar

A truly great horror story! Yet some people continue to imagine feeding 10 billion people with help from AI, technology, etc. Not only the water problem, soil horizons continue to diminish - the northern plains should return to natural grassland minimum 25 years in every 100. But debt-driven agriculture can't tolerate that. See also: https://www.thebrockovichreport.com/p/we-cant-keep-ignoring-our-water-crisis

Mark Roberts's avatar

We're going have to change something!

Harikrishnan Santhosh's avatar

An excellent and timely article on a very real crisis that is unfolding. I also cannot stress enough how important it is to monitor wells in a timely manner so that decentralized policies such as the LEMAs in Kansas could be implemented through community mobilization. Metering wells is a dire need in over-critical aquifers like the Ogallala. Kansas does this through the publicly available WIMAS dataset (which is also a rich panel dataset that's a blessing to economists working on the subject). But what about other states and regions where groundwater is in overdraft?

Mark Roberts's avatar

Great comment! One of the things I try to do is find publicly available date sets that people can monitor to see what climate and in this case over use of water resources is doing. Can you post a link here? Thanks.

Michael Kramer's avatar

Isn't it odd that 70% is projected population 'culling" by the eugenic movement of the Satanists,WEF/Gates etc!

Mark Roberts's avatar

I did not know that :-)

Michael Kramer's avatar

The depop agenda really calls for 90% reduction by 2030, WHERE wef U WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY! The 70% number qA FOR 2026. lOOK AT DEAGLE.com for guidence-a Rockefeller spinoff wit US Navy! Pure evil, the foundation of the chaos that is happening now. From out of chaos comes a NWO!

SUE Speaks's avatar

Well, no one else has to do this awesome documenting on what can wipe us all out. OK, now what?

The answer is so revolutionary that with our government being incapable of dealing with it, my focus is on making everyone aware of the grim realities so that this clever species has its best chance to save ourselves...somehow. A revolutionary conversation is in order!

Mark Roberts's avatar

So true.We need to be talking about all of the planetary boundaries that are being breached and how we can reverse those trends and reign in corporations.

SUE Speaks's avatar

Start from too late. The evidence is very compelling. Then what? That's where my suggestion comes in

Mark Roberts's avatar

We need to be pushing our politicians and leaders to push for action before and not after the famines that we can precict are coming from 150 years of data!

SUE Speaks's avatar

The objective is to get everyone sharp about the threats to us. How to do that is a question. Getting our politicians to do it would be great. How? That's the conversation to be having..

Annie Waters's avatar

At some point scarcity of water will outstrip oil as a concern for most people and countries, and it could be sooner rather than later.

Live in gratitude for the water that comes so easily from your faucet, that fills your tub, that sits in ponds and lakes and river basins for you to drink from, gaze at and enjoy.

Immerse with great reverence.

Jeff Suchon's avatar

We gotta desal alot more and pipe it inland. And reflect/shade accessible waterways ftom evaporation. My idea of s gl9bal aqua frigida :)