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The Agonist, from Don in West Texas, on the current devastating Texas drought, which may continue for another year and even intensify. We raise more cattle than anywhere in these United States. Or we once did, anyway… As I speak, broilers are dying by the droves while farm managers and workers watch helplessly. Cattle, [...] It may be time to stop describing south-eastern Australia as gripped by drought and instead accept the extreme dry as permanent, one of the nation’s most senior weather experts warned yesterday. “There is absolutely no debate that Australia is warming,” said Dr Jones. “It is very easy to see … it is happening before [...] Environmental Economics shows us how severe the drought is in Georgia. In August 2007, a Russian adventurer descended 4,300 meters under the thinning ice of th North Pole to plant a titanium flag, claiming some 1.2 million square kilometers of the Arctic for mother Russia. Not to be outdone, the Prime Minister of Canada stated his intention to boost his nation’s military presence in the [...] The Rio Grande has no excess water left to give, so border cities are looking at desalination. “The Rio Grande is one of the most stressed river basins in the world and water use is already at its limit,” said Casey Walsh, a water specialist. El Paso, some experts say, could run out of [...] Nearly one million people lack drinking water in a southern Chinese province that is suffering its worst water shortage in more than 50 years due to insufficient rain. The hidden cause of many water shortages, whether they be in China or Atlanta, is the increased population size. 50 years ago such droughts probably would [...] Atlanta is in a severe drought, yet a Pepsi plant in Atlanta slurps up 70.8 million gallons a month while a Dasani plant in Marietta uses 8.4 million gallons a month to produce bottled water – which residents are being told to stockpile in case the drought gets worse! And, the more water these big [...] Within our lifetimes, much of the west coast will be uninhabitable desert. That’s because the spring snowpack in the Rockies is expected to be gone by 2040. And that’s where much of the water for the American southwest comes from. Read more With a Coca-Cola plant in Atlanta sucking up huge amounts of water and a nuclear reactor and coal power plant down the river doing the same, the southeast faces major problems because of the drought. How do you cut back? Why if the unthinkable happens and the drought becomes semi-permanent? Celcias asks this and more [...] There are droughts worldwide now, with the US southwest and southeast suffering badly from them. TomDispatch has a long, thoughtful post about this asking, what happens if water really does run out somewhere? And doesn’t come back? |  | ||||
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