Preparing for Lack of Water World

[gunfreak]

Build Berkey Better (now that BBB is up for grabs again)?

I'm using the filters just building the rest for a fraction of the cost.

 

[JohnnyMac]

although it took some getting used to the slower pace.

That's funny right there. My wife used to call it "Ketchikan time". Someone would say they'd be there at 10am and she would ask "What is that in Ketchikan time?" because it was never 10am.

 

[The Heretic]

That's funny right there. My wife used to call it "Ketchikan time". Someone would say they'd be there at 10am and she would ask "What is that in Ketchikan time?" because it was never 10am.

I was young and I was living in the Seattle area at the time, so I was used to rushing around when it came to traffic, and other people doing the same. "Rush hour" in downtown Ketchikan is different; people will let you pull out into the traffic flow from a parking lot and they take their time elsewhere while driving somewhere because there is only 25 miles of road (not including the logging roads), so you don't need to drive 70 MPH to get somewhere on time.

 

[oremike]

Right now the snow is piling up, snow pac is water in the bank so to speak. That is a very good thing, but what is causing the drought is those late January warm rains that melt the snow pac and then we get no more snow until next winter. No snow, no snow pack, no water in the bank. We've been in this pattern for along time. When's the last time you've seen skiing in May-June?

 

[Member 75076]

Alot of people are also unaware how much water gets consumed by data centers. I just saw a really interesting video on YouTube about the topic the other day (see below). I don't know about ya'll but in my part of Oregon they just keep building data centers one after another. Funny how we hear politicians talking about climate change and how Oregon is in a drought, then we see places like Umatilla, Prineville, and Hillsboro approving new builds of these data centers like they're going out of style and we don't hear a peep from the politicians.

 

[3MTA3]

Someone please tell me about when the Earth's climate was a static unchanging paradise. Just when was that exactly?

 

[oremike]

Someone please tell me about when the Earth's climate was a static unchanging paradise. Just when was that exactly?

Last Tuesday, for about 15 minutes.

 

[ma96782]

Alot of people are also unaware how much water gets consumed by data centers. I just saw a really interesting video on YouTube about the topic the other day (see below). I don't know about ya'll but in my part of Oregon they just keep building data centers one after another. Funny how we hear politicians talking about climate change and how Oregon is in a drought, then we see places like Umatilla, Prineville, and Hillsboro approving new builds of these data centers like they're going out of style and we don't hear a peep from the politicians.

Then.....
Add the electricity demands for charging Elec. Vehicles.

Aloha, Mark

 

[ma96782]

MSN

Aloha, Mark

 

[albin25]

I'm preparing to forget how to swim and choosing, then stocking up on, the right round for hunting herds of fish on the plains…..
….. I already sold my lawnmower.

 

[3MTA3]

MSN

Aloha, Mark

Love how they claim the water shortage is due to "man made climate change" while ignoring the 24 million people living in a desert depleting the rivers and aquifers.

 

[osprey]

Didn't read any of the responses just OP's title. I for one relish the idea of a lack of Water World! It was a tediously long and boring Costner disaster!

 

[The Heretic]

MSN

Aloha, Mark

"slow motion train wreck"?

Yup - just described peak carrying capacity.

 

[ATCclears]

from a daily, free email from https://forwardobserver.com


The National Weather Service (NWS) has released its 90-Day forecast. The conditions outlined may limit recovery from current drought conditions with above-normal temperatures in the Midwest and Western United States. Spring recovery forecasts starting in March may see a longer and slower recovery than expected. (AC: With slower recovery from drought conditions, supply relief may be limited with slower food price recovery into the summer. Increased strain on growers and fertilizer supplies will contribute to increased food prices. – D.F.)

 

[The Heretic]

The much bigger problem than the weather/climate/etc., is the fact that even with non-drought weather, we are using up the water we have accumulated over thousands of years (in aquifers) faster than it can be replenished. It takes a lot longer than a couple of years of good rain to replenish aquifers.

The root cause is human population uses too much water - in part because we waste it - but mostly because we are exceeding the carrying capacity of our environment.

 

[Horatius]

I met my brothers neighbor yesterday and we are all effed, I now KNOW for his, for certain, "the true poles of the earth have shifted position enough to alter our seasons several months, because of the volcanic eruption recently in the pacific"!

 

[RicInOR]

US Western Megadrought Worst In 1,200 Years, Scientist Warn

softpaywall:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-022-01290-z.epdf?sharing_token=tu05bg5AGTYS-CnU5doPi9RgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0OkweMbawmVFM1UCLmLxuyBpGKtFJa1_BxzJ7UFQSQZ6HaBJacDsGE-mz4IC3otD2EvgUuZ1jWwRP4fToTV-rpOZsBtF5XLb4MBb-79Xa5f5Hp9nykSihz6N09zdoxfx4X_GCDsYY-J_edxZAJcEymkZWMjzP6RZXBJ5UutlCbbYw%3D%3D&tracking_referrer=www.cnbc.com

 

[ATCclears]

Got garden?...

California Drought Grows Dire Again After Two Record Dry Months

A wet December followed by bone-dry January and February leave the state at a high risk of destructive wildfires, new measurements show.

www.wsj.com

 

[billdeserthills]

Got garden?...

California Drought Grows Dire Again After Two Record Dry Months

A wet December followed by bone-dry January and February leave the state at a high risk of destructive wildfires, new measurements show.

www.wsj.com

Oh noes,
how will they charge all those electric cars if the power lines burn up?

Keeping Nestle' from stealing the cali water could help solve some of their drought problem

 

[ma96782]

BUT, but, but….think of the MJ crop.
Yeah…..Sooooo green and great colas.

"Won't someone please think of the fish?"

Aloha, Mark

PS ……
https://www.researchgate.net/public...Watersheds.pdf?origin=publication_detail