State of Emergency in Washington?
Really? I mean..yes, I can see the news...it is real, but wow... http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/washington-state-declares-drought-emergency-1.3076115 What does this for RV'rs? An...
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myredracer wrote:
Our local municipality was proposing to install meters on wells around here a few years back. Our old well dried up every summer and we had to get water trucked in to fill it up every couple of weeks and have been paying twice for our water. There was a huge outcry and they gave up the idea of meters. Now, in the last few years, we've had a proliferation of farmers converting to blueberries, which use an extensive amount of water and there's nothing to stop them. A guy across the street drilled 6 deep wells for his blueberries. Aquifer levels here have been steadily dropping for years but there's no measures in place to stop it and farmers can use as much as they want.
In California, 80% of water is used for agriculture. Almonds are the state's top crop and use over 1 trillion gallons of water a year - about 1 gallon per nut.
Maybe the solution is to control what farmers are allowed to grow in various regions instead of letting market demand determine what is grown. I rarely eat blueberries or almonds and wouldn't care if they were no longer available.
Dropping aquifer levels are a serious threat worldwide. There are 2 types type of them, one is replenishable from rainfall and the other type ("fossil" aquifer) is non-replenishable like the large Agallala reservoir in the US and will be emptied forever when eventually pumped dry. Dropping replenishable aquifer levels are widespread and are being depleted at a rate higher than can be replaced by rainfall. Good story in this article.
It seems that agriculture around the world is headed for a catastrophic failure unless something serious is done. There is no stopping of the effects of global warming, and the effects are accelerating with time. Personally, I don't hold much hope for the future of mankind for this and other similar reasons.
Nothing in your list of toys used water or is partly responsible for the supposed "global warming" ?
Yea let's put more regulations on our farmers so they "all" go out of business and then we can eat foods from third world countries.
Hey let's all boycott blueberries and almonds.
