These pretzels are making me thirsty.
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PEAK WATER
These pretzels are making me thirsty.
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God help you if you live in out West, and more recently, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. The drought is already worse than the “dust bowl”.
My main concern is my house getting flooded. It’s happened before. Peak water eh? Hard to believe, there’s so much around.
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How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth’s surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth’s radius. The above illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120515.html
With this, and the whole age of limits element, doesn’t the socioeconomic shit sort of fade into the backdrop?
Water? One of the many issues with which I am intimately familiar.
Arizona is THE guiding beacon of light for the nation when it comes to water use and conservation. The century-old Salt River project is a gift of sheer genius from our ancestors, and the Central Arizona Project (CAP) is a more recent example.
Here in Tucson, a massive underground aquifer, 2nd largest in the US, is recharged from ponds using recycled, treated waste water and injecting that water back into the aquifer, which has INCREASED by 90 feet in the past decade. The metro area, served by over 200 water wells and the CAP, is good to go for many more decades. Hopefully, the Colorado Rockies snowpack will continue to cooperate and extend our water security far into the future.
As with a national energy policy, I have some ideas and suggestions for our country to put water issues on the back burner in a New York minute. Unfortunately, expenditures on SNAP cards and Obamaphones will deep six all of them.
It’s not just the Southwest getting hit by drought, I never thought I’d see it but I will have no cattle by the end of this year. Ten years ago I was selling 2000+ calves annually. As we speak, I’m weaning 200# calves and sending good mothers to slaughter. Giving away fine saddle horses, 200+ dollar feeder hay if you can find it.. ….Calif./Oregon border.
But to be honest it’s a combinations of things, it’s also increasingly heavy handed big brother, a collapsed work ethic among the young, sky rocketing input cost equating to increased risk, an overwhelming urge to be hunkering down, etc.
Damn AWD ,you had some bad luck in your life and you still got alot to look forward to.
AWD ,that above is not what I meant but you get the point.
I blame it primarily on industrial ag with sterilized soils–soils need to be teeming with life to hold water. If you haven’t seen it, check out Alan Savory’s TED video:
It could be THE solution to rising carbon levels and more importantly, desertification (the US is turning to desert faster than any country in history, even though the native “Indians” created the richest soil in the world through their superior land management). Best thing about it: it makes farms more profitable and requires zero government intervention.
Peak Honkie
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http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/05/27/a-shift-from-germany-to-mexico-for-americas-immigrants/
Admin – great post!
Mike Moskos – brilliant Ted Talk. Thanks for posting that!
If they would close golf courses in Aridzone they could have much more water…but then the geriatrics would be doing drive-bys on their golf carts throwing golf balls at politicians offices.
I KNEW I shouldn’t have logged on today!!
I spent most of yesterday offline … from everything.
Funny thing happened …. I was actually a CHEERFUL and HAPPY muthafucka! I stopped beating Ms Freud, stopped choking the chicken every 5 minutes, and even said “How ya doing”? to my neighbor instead of “Fuck you, asshole!”.
And now this; peak fucking water.
Kinda funny though. In about an hour I’ll be going to my parent’s house. The next door neighbor … cocksucking fuckwad dickhead that he is …. heats his house with a wood burning stove. By spring time, the house has a nice layer of soot. So, I’ll be POWER WASHING the entire house. Will probably use a few hundred gallons of water. Fuck peak water!!
“Arizona is THE guiding beacon of light for the nation when it comes to water use and conservation.” ———— SSS
Give me a fuckin’ break, will ya?
Home in Glendale, AZ.
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See all that green shit? Grass? You know what that’s called in a desert? UNNATURAL!!!
And, do answer Kill Bill’s commentary! How many fucking millions of gallons of water are need to make those fucking precious golf courses you love so much become so pretty and UNNATURALLY green? hmmm?
Consuming more water than the world produces, consuming more calories than it produces too.
And yet we continue to be divided on contraception and the like.
It is completely unsustainable to use more than is capable of being produced. What cannot be sustained, won’t be. Contrary to fairytales and wishful thinking, we have reached peak people, no matter what a book written in a different world tells us.
Maybe this is the 1000 year war and Armageddon talked about. At some point it won’t just be Third World countries killing each other over clean water and fertile land.
Even though the majority of Westerners believe that chemicals and GMOs will stretch this out, the reality of our poisoning is catching up with us and won’t be denied for many more years.
Meanwhile our leaders want to force our reduction of water consumption by taxing energy, reducing our opportunities through destroying the non-government middle class, and generally make sure that huge swaths of our fellow ‘murkins are destroyed when our destruction can no longer be hidden through gubment largesse and falsified financial reports.
Scary when I look at all the shoes dangling above my dearest daughter and granddaughter’s heads. Their generation is majorly fucked. And they are going to be the one’s to pay as the coming population losses are going to wipe out the fat as fuck oldsters, and many of the slightly younger as their lifetime illusions crash down amongst us.
Forewarned is forearmed. And even then it will be a bitch to survive.
Don’t have kids.
Kill Bill and Stucky
Golf courses in Arizona use retreated sewage water. It is not fit to drink and used to be thrown away like so much garbage headed to a dump. True, the process does consume more POWER to retreat the water and pump it to courses, but it does NOT subtract from the water supply.
As for lawns in Glendale – and Scottsdale and Paradise Valley and other Phoenix suburbs – you got me. There are far too many that still exist in the Valley of the Sun, but they are dwindling rapidly as more and more people turn to desert landscaping, as they should have done in the first place.
You want to know who created that foolishness in the first place? Transplanted Midwesterners and Easterners who moved to Arizona after they retired or bought a second home here. They wanted to maintain a bit of the “back home” flavor to their homes. Stupid. They also planted non-native species such as olive trees, which greatly ADDED to the pollen issues in the spring and made the climate WORSE for people who suffered from asthma and other COPD issues. More stupid.
In the larger picture, businesses and agriculture still use about 80% of the water supply here, not private residences. That too is lessening as the price of water is based on how much you use. Many of the citrus groves and cotton fields that were so prevalent in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s are gone. Pffft. Never to return.
Back to private homes. Used to be that the big status symbol in Arizona was to have a pool in your backyard. That too is dying fast, really fast. A private pool is a giant pain in the ass, much like owning a boat. Hundreds of businesses that built and maintained pools have closed up shop. The “community pool” both public and private is on a rapid upsurge. Makes good sense. Plus homes have stuff like restrictive shower heads and in some cases “gray water” recycling.
Arizona knows water, and I know what I’m talking about. The end.
Stucky , don’t fall off the latter. Hurts really bad.I know from experience.
Boats don’t use water, they float on the water. Also boats and boating have been known to induce women to take their tops off.
@PJ: You’re starting to sound like Smokey did (rest his whatever). One reply to everything. Not that I don’t agree with you, of course, because I do. If I had it to do over, there would be 13 less people on the planet than there are right now —— and while I love my kids, I could have survived without them, been a fat $million or so better off after cost of raising them, educating them and bailing there ass out about half a dozen times.
It’s hell to think ahead when you’re 19 – 20 and horny as hell and your sweetie is hormonally charged into a kid or two.
Don’t have kids……… right……….
MA
Ragman hints at Arizona’s best kept secret: Lake Havasu.
Muck, we all follow in your footsteps on that one. It’s Adam’s curse – someday you’ll have kids of your own.
But Abraham complained when he didn’t have kids. Then the old guy went and dipped into the pond of his young Latina-looking maid. It’s a trap, women are physically and spiritually designed to lure men to impregnate them and generate kids. We may try to warn them as PJ does but we can’t undo Adam’s curse.