What does 10 TRILLION gallons of water even equate to?

Fizz wrote:

fulltimedaniel wrote:

Here is a quote from the Global Drought Information System website:
etc, etc,etc

One question for these people.
Where is the rain then?
Believe it or not it has to rain somewhere on earth. Obviously people who work for Global Drought Information System only see droughts.

Well I suggest you go to the website and read a bit. The NIDIS is headed by a DR Pulwarty here is a brief bio:

[COLOR=]Dr. Roger S. Pulwarty is the Senior Advisor for Climate Research in the NOAA Climate Program. His research and publications focus on climate, impacts assessment, and adaptation in the U.S., Latin America and the Caribbean.

Roger is a lead author on a number of national and international climate assessments, including the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Global Assessment of Disasters, the UN IPCC Special Reports on Water Resources and on Extremes.

He is a Convening Lead Author on Adaptation Planning and Implementation in the 2014 IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Dr. Pulwarty has acted in advisory capacities on climate, natural resources and disaster risk reduction to several national and international agencies, including the Organization of American States, the Caribbean Economic Community (CARICOM) the Global Framework on Climate Services, the UNDP, UNEP and the InterAmerican Development and World Banks.

He co-chairs the UN World Meteorological Organization Climate Services Information System implementation team and the White House Committee on Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability Task Force on the Water-Energy-Food nexus.

Sounds to me like he is imminently more qualified than most here to speak intelligently about Drought.

And keep in mind that just because it's raining in Bangkok and they are having one heck of a monsoon that rain does NOTHING for the drought in Rajasthan...or California Or Sub Saharan Africa.

Yes it is raining somewhere but not where it is needed most. But that certainly does not negate the FACT that there is a drought in another part of the world.

fulltimedaniel wrote:

Here is a quote from the Global Drought Information System website:
etc, etc,etc

One question for these people.
Where is the rain then?
Believe it or not it has to rain somewhere on earth. Obviously people who work for Global Drought Information System only see droughts.

Tree Huggers? Evirowhackos? I see once again the level of civil and intelligent discourse here has taken a nosedive into the right-hand gutter.

California's drought is real as are severe droughts in many parts of the world. Water is going to be the 21st century's Fluid of Conflict that Oil was from 1915 to the Gulf War.

Here is a quote from the Global Drought Information System website:

"According to NOAA, September 2016 was the second hottest September in the 137 year record at 1.29C above average.

In Europe, drought conditions expanded through Central Europe and up to the North Sea. For the second month in a row, the European Union’s crop monitoring service lowered the corn yield forecast for this year.

In Asia, drought continues throughout central Russia and a ring from the Indian sub-Continent around eastern China and Mongolia. In China, drought in the northwestern Gansu Province led to implementation of the government’s level-IV emergency response plan.

In Africa, short-term drought eased slightly in the western part of the continent while continuing to strongly impact South Africa. In South Africa, there has been a culling of hippo and buffalo herds due to the poor condition of vegetation.

In North America, drought remains entrenched along the western coast as well as through New England and the US Southeast. In the US Northeast, the apple crop has suffered due to the drought with noticeably smaller fruit produced this year.

In South America, drought continues in Brazil as well as from the equator down along the Andes. Irrigation water for farms was restricted in Espirito Santo, where rivers were largely dry. In Oceania, drought continued nearly unchanged."

garyhaupt wrote:
What does 10 TRILLION gallons of water even equate to?

Gary ... I'll go way out on a watersoaked limb here and make a guess to help visualize things: That much water probably could fill somwhere around the coach interior volumes of 5 billion motorhomes like yours.

By the way, along with all that water comes nasty winds. Here's what was laying next to our rig when I got up last Thursday morning:



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10 trillion gallons of water by comparison to just the water contained in Lake Michigan alone (only one of the 5 Great Lakes) is less than 1/8 of an 8 ounce glass of water (1 oz) taken from a 16' deep full Olympic sized swimming pool.

FWIW: 22,394 sq miles of water surface on Lake Michigan alone and contains 6 QUADRILLION gallons of water. 10 trillion gallons over a large area of huge California really isn't that much water from rain. However, the ground is very slow to soak it in there. So much thin mud type soil over rock makes it even worse as the water must run off rather than down thru the soil. The runoff quickly overfills the reservoir and exposes the poor planning done for the dam there!

600,000 cubic feet per second is the average flow rate of the Mississippi at New Orleans. Day in day out 24/7 365 days a year. Problems arise when it all comes at once.

Save some for Flint

Filter it, bottle it and then they can quit pumping water out of the Great Lakes.

"What does 10 TRILLION gallons of water even equate to?"

For those living in that part of California, a lot of concern I'm sure. :E

For those of us living around the Great Lakes - peanuts. :) I'm but a mile from Lake Ontario which alone contains 393 cubic miles of water ... or 432 739 038 940 000 US gallons. 10 trillion gallons is nothing as long as it stays where it belongs. ;)

Well here's an idea... let's open ALL the floodgates, drain the reservoirs, that will wash all the natural river/ stream vegetation away, the streams will eventually dry (because other than this year that's the new norm), and the fish can walk upstream, we still have drought so the water district can keep their rates up, and everybodys happy.. Especially the tree huggers :)