Its crazy how fast Lake Mead is losing water - A Slow Disaster Unfolding

[Wildhundreds]

People have been talking about doomsday apocalypse of the world ending since the late 1800s

Ya'll must be bored lol

Not necessarily dooms day, but the environmental shift will cause lives to be lost. If humans evolve parallel to natural resources, they have a major problem coming.

 

[Tony Khan]

Nah we're gonna destroy the earth. Jesus will reign on the new earth

Not if I got anything to say about it.

 

[UpAndComing]

Not necessarily dooms day, but the environmental shift will cause lives to be lost. If humans evolve parallel to natural resources, they have a major problem coming.

"Lives being lost" due to natural resources and nature in general wasn't a new thing in the 1800s and not a new thing now

And there have been measures to fix the water crisis

 

[Wildhundreds]

"Lives being lost" due to natural resources and nature in general wasn't a new thing in the 1800s and not a new thing now

And there have been measures to fix the water crisis

The information we have now wasn't around in the 1800s though. The industries thats destroying the planet now wasn't around in the 1800s. We're where here because of pollution. Pollution that wasn't around in the 1800s.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

I wonder how much of that drop is due to evaporation. I'm sure that problem has been solved.

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[At30wecashout]

I wonder how much of that drop is due to evaporation. I'm sure that problem has been solved.

EDIT:

This was actually fascinating as hell.

 

[pawdalaw]

They know. They just don’t care.

Don't underestimate the stupidity of Americans. "They,," we are in last place when it comes to social sentiment. We the only ones who were oblivious to this fuel crunch, when other countries have had the safety valve priced in for decades.

Diesel fuel has doubled in price. The average American ain't stockpiling or adjusting eating habits. Nor growing food.

We still getting thousands of newly constructed houses with sprawling lawns. Those who know don't care or are profiteers. The majority are willfully ignorant. How many of us have been making adjustments to our personal lives? Very few!

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Not just rain, snow as well. The big piles of snow in parking lots in states from the midwest to the northeast. Dont even have to build a pipe line. Use those big tankers that run across the already existing railway system, that currently run from coast to coast transporting high fructose corn syrup. The great lakes states get a massive amount of lake affect snow, on top of snow from weather systems. Instead of plowing that snow into large piles, transport them to rail yards and transport them by rail to the east coast. Do that for a winter to see if it'll make a difference. If not, no significant amount of money was loss.

Breh, transporting by rail would be far more expensive than transporting by pipeline and the volume moved would be almost worthless. You gotta crunch the numbers, this shyt would have no impact at all.

And snow is 5-10x less dense than water. Railcars carrying loads of snow are basically carrying 85% air. Just a complete waste of time and energy.

 

[Wildhundreds]

Breh, transporting by rail would be far more expensive than transporting by pipeline and the volume moved would be almost worthless. You gotta crunch the numbers, this shyt would have no impact at all.

And snow is 5-10x less dense than water. Railcars carrying loads of snow are basically carrying 85% air. Just a complete waste of time and energy.

Guess the people in the southwest region days are numbered.

What y'all gonna do?

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Guess the people in the southwest region days are numbered.

What y'all gonna do?

Personally I'm moving. But like I said, it's basically three moves:

1. Heavily reduce water consumption, especially lawns and overly water-sucking crops and cattle
2. Reduce water loss, especially collecting more rainfall and recycling more runoff
3. Desalination eventually, despite the tremendous drawbacks involved (especially energy)

People have been talking about doomsday apocalypse of the world ending since the late 1800s

Ya'll must be bored lol

This is just about the dumbest possible response to this issue and that's saying something.

If you have something to contribute then contribute it. If you're unaware that humans have done dramatically more damage to the Earth by 2022 than we had in the late 1800s then I don't know what to say to you. At this point we've fukked up nearly every square acre of natural land on Earth and the only question is which areas can handle the disruption and which ones are just gonna collapse.

 

[ignorethis]

California and Nevada gonna run out of water in our lifetime.

fallout was prophecy lol

 

[Dave24]

@Rhakim

@Micky Mikey


What are the best states to live in the United States to live to suffer the least effects of this crisis or is the whole United States going to be drastically effected? I currently live in Georgia.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

@Rhakim

@Micky Mikey


What are the best states to live in the United States to live to suffer the least effects of this crisis or is the whole United States going to be drastically effected? I currently live in Georgia.

Well, here's a map of where the drought has been the worst:

But there are other factors too, like how much they need the water and how good they are at adapting. Like the midwest doesn't look as dought-hit as the southwest, but in reality they might be more fukked cause they're entirely reliant on agriculture so they need that water a LOT and they're red states so they're shytty at adapting to conservation.

Georgia has some drought on the map but I actually don't think they'll be hard hit because they're just not that sensitive, they don't use water at the rates that a lot of those western/midwestern states do.

 

[Mike809]

As someone looking into buying his first home , i always hear how Buffalo , NY wont be impacted by climate change as much as the rest of the country.

 

[Paradoxx]

More like Texas and Florida, no one in Cali wants to live in flyover states.

The migration is already fukking us up because of the large amount of people are coming here.

More people, more communities being developed and more water usage to help build those homes.

Bad enough you have evil companies like Nestle trying to take the water here and sell it outside Florida.