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So, something I've been thinking about for a while now, as the decades long draught persists in parts of the mid west, and as I hear more fighting over the allocation of river water in agricultural states like CA...
Is the life cycle of water. I'd welcome @ecofarm on this, as I wager he's forgotten more about this than most of us will learn.
Now, we can blame the droughts and lack of water on climate change, certainly. More heat = more evaporation, and changing air currents can result in rainfall in places that don't normally get it, and no rainfall where the water evaporated from. That is happening.
But what about all the water we ship out? When I lived in FL, there was a major movement to put together a class action law suit against Nestle, for it's monopolization and exportation of the water from Zephyre Hills, a major source of fresh water for central FL. I remember hearing about a similar effort in...Michigan, I think? Now, if bottled water can displace enough water from a specific environment to affect it negatively...can't farming? Consider the tons of livestock feed (millions of gallons of water) shipped to China, annually. Consider the water trapped in grapes in Napa Valley. Consider all the produce we grow and ship out of state, and have been for decades. Agricultural states are quite literally exporting their water, and have been, for years. How does that water get back? When we deplete and entire river...I think it's time to consider this as a possible cause for draughts.
Thoughts?
Is the life cycle of water. I'd welcome @ecofarm on this, as I wager he's forgotten more about this than most of us will learn.
Now, we can blame the droughts and lack of water on climate change, certainly. More heat = more evaporation, and changing air currents can result in rainfall in places that don't normally get it, and no rainfall where the water evaporated from. That is happening.
But what about all the water we ship out? When I lived in FL, there was a major movement to put together a class action law suit against Nestle, for it's monopolization and exportation of the water from Zephyre Hills, a major source of fresh water for central FL. I remember hearing about a similar effort in...Michigan, I think? Now, if bottled water can displace enough water from a specific environment to affect it negatively...can't farming? Consider the tons of livestock feed (millions of gallons of water) shipped to China, annually. Consider the water trapped in grapes in Napa Valley. Consider all the produce we grow and ship out of state, and have been for decades. Agricultural states are quite literally exporting their water, and have been, for years. How does that water get back? When we deplete and entire river...I think it's time to consider this as a possible cause for draughts.
Thoughts?