So you will remain your constitutional right to survive (enough water for that)
Survival is a constitutional right? Please quote the article and section of the U.S. constitution. Thanks.
So you will remain your constitutional right to survive (enough water for that)
I live in California. We only have a year's worth of water left for the entire state. Ask me if I give a crap about what the ice caps are doing?
lol, raise the price? Really?
It's water, dude. It's a necessity, not a luxury or commodity.
Survival is a constitutional right? Please quote the article and section of the U.S. constitution. Thanks.
"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is a well-known phrase in the United States Declaration of Independence. The phrase gives three examples of the "unalienable rights" which the Declaration says has been given to all human beings by their Creator, and for which governments are created to protect.
Survival is a constitutional right? Please quote the article and section of the U.S. constitution. Thanks.
That sounds like fear-mongering from NASA's water guy.
Seems to me if people were made to pay for the water they use, there wouldn't be an impending shortage. Or at least, supplies could be restored. If there's a drought or supply is low, just raise the price.
Instead, there's all kinds of bullshit that screws up the market for water.
You want free water? Go get it yourself. You want the luxury of having a safe, sanitized product pumped into your house? It takes a massive infrastructure to do that which needs to be paid for.
A once-thriving Mesoamerican metropolis dried up about 1,000 years ago when below-average rainfall triggered centuries-long droughts that largely prompted people to abandon the city for greener opportunities, a new study finds.
In its heyday, about 90,000 people lived in Cantona, which is located in a dry volcanic basin.
But people deserted the city between A.D. 900 and A.D. 1050, research shows.
Overall, Cantona still had wet summers and dry winters, but its regular monsoon season was disturbed by frequent long-term droughts, which likely harmed the area's crops and water supply, the researchers said.
Moreover, the droughts lasted hundreds of years.
A 650-year period of frequent droughts plagued the area from about A.D. 500 to about A.D. 1150, they found.
This dry period wasn't isolated, but part of a period of droughts in modern-day Mexico's highlands that lasted from about 200 B.C. until A.D. 1300, just before the Aztec empire took power.
The study was published online Jan. 26 in the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
650-Year Drought Triggered Ancient City's Abandonment
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But people deserted the city between A.D. 900 and A.D. 1050, research shows.
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A 650-year period of frequent droughts plagued the area from about A.D. 500 to about A.D. 1150, they found.
Keep on sheepin, sheeple.
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with members from Mexico, the U.S. and Germany has found that the demise of the pre-Columbian Mesoamerican society centered around a city known as Cantona, was likely due to a combination of weather and politics.
The researchers note that little work has been done to gain an accurate portrayal of what the climate was like in Mesoamerica during the times when various early people lived there, creating civilizations that in many cases vanished leaving behind ruins for modern scientists to ponder.
There is currently no consensus on the importance of climate change in Mesoamerican prehistory.
While I don't think there's 100% truth in the "1 year of water left" statement, I will say that the price of water has gone up drastically, at least here in San Diego County. My water (+sewer) bill is close to $300 a month, and that's in the Winter months, when lawn watering is minimal. They have us on water rationing now. You can only run your exterior irrigation tues, thurs, sat. for no more than 5 minutes per watering zone. My bill will be $500/month this summer. Showers, washing machine, dish washer etc. are not used excessively. We just pay a shit load per unit of water here. Yet, we're still in a drought and Sacramento doesn't seem to have any reasonable solution in sight. We're told it's a water crisis, yet the elected officials sure don't act like there's a crisis.
I live in California. We only have a year's worth of water left for the entire state. Ask me if I give a crap about what the ice caps are doing?
Because of this ruling, in 2009 and 2010 more than 300 billion gallons (or 1 million acre-feet) of water were diverted away from farmers in the Central Valley and into the San Francisco Bay – eventually going out into the Pacific Ocean.
I live in California. We only have a year's worth of water left for the entire state. Ask me if I give a crap about what the ice caps are doing?
Famiglietti (NASA guy): The online headline, written (and now corrected) by the LA Times, was misleading. It originally read "California has 1 year of water left," which I did not write nor did I intend to convey. My real point: at the time of writing, statewide, California's surface water reservoirs held about a year's worth of water supply, perhaps plus or minus a couple of months.
Of course, our surface water reservoirs are not designed to provide long-term water supply, and really cannot hold more than about 3 year's worth. So after 3 years of drought, it is understandable that our reservoirs are very low.
However, we are at no risk of running out of water any time soon, since we have decades worth of groundwater in our aquifers.
Growing fruits, vegetables, and nuts in the desert is probably not a feasible idea.