Preparing for Lack of Water World

[Cavedweller]

Here are a couple of interesting documentaries discussing the geologic, atmospheric, and astronomical factors influencing the formation of deserts.

 

[ma96782]

No exaggeration: Record lows at Lake Powell and Lake Mead call for drastic action

Lake Powell's elevation requires immediate protective actions. Everyone will be asked to conserve to delay or reduce further mandatory reductions.

www.yahoo.com

Aloha, Mark

 

[rjmt]

there's a reason I purchased property in a river valley with 3 hydro dams
have my own well, water table just 21' down, but also have an artesian well with 12 mo. surface water just 100 yrds from the house
when my neighbor's well went out, I let him drop a pump in my artesian well and he was able to pump enough water in July to supply his place

 

[arakboss]

Kingsland is going to have a serious water shortage problem if they keep pissing away their water supply.

Johnny Cash mural springs a curious leak after vandal shoots hometown water tower in 'sensitive area'

The Johnny Cash water tower was hit in such a way to make it appear as though "the Man in Black" is urinating over the Arkansas town.

www.foxnews.com

 

[nammac]

Life Straws…. There's gotta be water somewhere…

 

[ma96782]

Kingsland is going to have a serious water shortage problem if they keep pissing away their water supply.

Johnny Cash mural springs a curious leak after vandal shoots hometown water tower in 'sensitive area'

The Johnny Cash water tower was hit in such a way to make it appear as though "the Man in Black" is urinating over the Arkansas town.

www.foxnews.com

I'd be guessing that......some people weren't in the Navy.

Aloha, Mark

 

[Mikej]

I bet his buddies Jack & Johnny had a hand in this.

 

[WillametteWill]

Just a recent observation...
I'm not in any way saying there are not water issues around, but the hype and lack of good information (misinformation?) is a challenge as well. I have been using the National Weather Service NOAA website for years for checking weather and rainfall. I've always found it to be pretty accurate...unit recently. They had a pretty significant format change a few months ago and the rainfall amounts have been massively off.

There have been times recently where we have received tons of rainfall and their report shows none, a trace or maybe .02". I understand the rainfall gauge is a few miles from my house so their amounts will differ, but I've talked with folks who have been in the area during a rainstorm and the amounts show 0.00".

Peculiar.

 

[arakboss]

Sweeping water restrictions begin in Southern California as drought worsens

The new rules, which limit outdoor watering to once a week, will affect more than 6 million residents in Southern California.

www.cnbc.com

 

[slimmer13]

Sweeping water restrictions begin in Southern California as drought worsens

The new rules, which limit outdoor watering to once a week, will affect more than 6 million residents in Southern California.

www.cnbc.com

Lawns are stupid anyway. All that time, energy, water and other resources to have a green patch around your house. Especially in the Southwest.

That said, I have a big lawn/yard, but I'm only maintaining a small part of it. The rest I'm just mowing or letting go natural.

I've also been looking into more low maintenance low water landscaping. I'm probably going to bring in a bunch of rock in the fall.

 

[arakboss]

As California's big cities fail to rein in their water use, rural communities are already tapped out | CNN

Rural Californians live with the daily worry that they won't have enough water to bathe with or drink.

www.cnn.com

 

[dobeman]

Life Straws…. There's gotta be water somewhere…

yep. get water collection barrels at your gutter downspouts. at least you'll have water to drink in emergency. Life Straw. Big Berkey, etc. Doesn't solve the lager megadrought problem. Time for states to get serious about water conservation and change some environmental laws. Maybe it's time for the little fish California is protecting in the Sacramento river delta to meet it's maker and divert water to storage.

 

[dobeman]

Lawns are stupid anyway. All that time, energy, water and other resources to have a green patch around your house. Especially in the Southwest.

That said, I have a big lawn/yard, but I'm only maintaining a small part of it. The rest I'm just mowing or letting go natural.

I've also been looking into more low maintenance low water landscaping. I'm probably going to bring in a bunch of rock in the fall.

the older I get the less I like manicuring grass and the more I like rocks. rocks are cool!

 

[ma96782]

Aloha, Mark

 

[ma96782]

And closer to home.

MSN

Aloha, Mark

 

[Tony617]

Lawns are stupid anyway. All that time, energy, water and other resources to have a green patch around your house. Especially in the Southwest.

That said, I have a big lawn/yard, but I'm only maintaining a small part of it. The rest I'm just mowing or letting go natural.

I've also been looking into more low maintenance low water landscaping. I'm probably going to bring in a bunch of rock in the fall.

I live in a neighborhood with an HOA and I pay a yearly fee to maintain the common areas with a playground and stuff. Unless there is a drought within Washington State I need to keep my front lawn green in the summertime even though it wastes a lot of water.

 

[arakboss]

And closer to home.

MSN

Aloha, Mark

That's what happens when you throw bacon on land over aquifer.

 

[ma96782]

RE : Bacon
Besides agricultural run off from growing food.

Perhaps, the Marijuana Growers are contributing too?

Aloha, Mark

PS.....BTW, it's illegal in Morrow County.

BUT, But, but......it's not like a law (in this case- prohibiting marijuana production, processing, wholesale, retail in Morrow County) has 100% stopped people, from doing illegal stuff.

An example from Jackson County.

Overwhelmed by illegal cannabis, Oregon county declares emergency

A county in southern Oregon says it is so overwhelmed by an increase in the number and size of illegal marijuana farms that it declared a state of emergency, appealing to the governor and the Legislature’s leaders for help

www.opb.org

Local police continue crackdown on illegal marijuana

The warrants resulted in the seizure of 15 firearms, nearly 4,000 plants, and more than 1,300 lbs. of processed black-market cannabis. At this time there is no evidence suggesting the

www.kdrv.com

etc....etc....

 

[CountryGent]

And closer to home.

MSN

Aloha, Mark

Yikes! I used to live in neighboring Gilliam County.

 

[Mikej]

That's what happens when you throw bacon on land over aquifer.

I read "Nitrogen rich Waste Water" Sewage water that has had the solids separated from it. No?