www.nationalgeographic.com
Why do you hate America?Can the Colorado River keep on running?
The Colorado River is being sucked dry by cities and farms and is also suffering the effects of climate change. What will it take to save the “lifeline of the West”?
Like a lot of these articles it largely places the onus on individual actions while ignoring the drastic impacts of industry. Individuals can help but in general homes tend to use a fraction of the water as industries.
Yeah stop eating almonds. The California agriculture practice are mostly to blame, and to a lesser extend bottle water plants that pull from the municipal supplies out West.
Water prices have gone up here in Madison and will climb higher as the population increases. I have become increasingly conscious and recently began to use brown water to water garden plants and flowers. We recently invested in a diy drip irrigation system to begin to install in the Fall. The next logical step will be to capture rain water for use in the garden although that requires a bit of doing due to the shear amount of rain we receive in the spring. How can that be conserved to utilize in August/September? As stated earlier regarding business usage a car wash probably uses more in an hour than we do in a year.
The problem is that dishwashers are no longer designed to wash really dirty dishes and get them clean without clogging up. There's an old thread I put up with what the inside bottom of my dishwasher looked like after only six months of use and the dishes rinsed - full of something resembling chocolate pudding. Somehow, Trump's magic wand granting us more water in it didn't reach around here...
We have three rain barrels, but, even with the heavy spring (54.5" on 8/1 up here), they're empty long before the fall rains start...
Water prices will no doubt skyrocket going forward - along with food prices (both from increased water costs & increasing climate related crop failures - which has already started).
It may have been the Netflix series Broken that was showing that beekeepers all over the country haul their hives to California each year for pollination. A crazy waste of resources & evidently an extreme stressor on the bees.
www.theguardian.com
It may have been the Netflix series Broken that was showing that beekeepers all over the country haul their hives to California each year for pollination. A crazy waste of resources & evidently an extreme stressor on the bees.
'Like sending bees to war': the deadly truth behind your almond milk obsession
Bees are essential to the functioning of America’s titanic almond industry – and billions are dying in the process
Water wars are not new. They go back to when farmers from the Middle East moved into Europe and displaced hunter-gatherers...
No doubt but I expect them to become increasingly more vicious & desperate as sources like glaciers & mountaintop freezes start drying up (another process that has already begun around the world).
How many gallons? I've been considering this, but when I would need the water it would be in a drought.
