Stop watering lawns/golf courses and growing water-intensive crops in the desert and I'm willing to bet we'd have a healthy surplus of the stuff.
The city I'm in instituted lawn-watering restrictions and the :liberals: are already malding over government interference. Can't wait till they get harsher every year from now until forever
The decay into fascism will be caused by restrictions on watering lawns
Meanwhile, the :grillman: around me keep asking why my lawn isn't green in the middle of summer, but what is green on the front yard (native plants that are actually made for the climate) enrage them by their very existence.
They're trying to drag us all into the grave into them.
Living in southern California is unsustainable, get out :get-out:
Most of California is getting pretty fucked. If Lake Meade dries up we lose most of our power.
People laughed at me for saying in 2018 that st George was town doomed due to water shortages in the near future, they also laughed at me for saying Arizona is a testament to mans aggogance, they also continued to laugh at me about pointing out that the southwest will be a wasteland by 2040.
WHOS LAUGHTING NOW
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Saint George, they have golf courses and large lawns in the middle of a red clay desert and its one of the fastest grow towns in utah, which is gonna expose the arsenic lake bed soonish.
they also continued to laugh at me about pointing out that the southwest will be a wasteland by 2040.
that means it'll be actualized by 2025
Lake Mead is critically low, I was watching a beautiful boater on YouTube check it out and it went down 5 feet in just 1 week. It’s so low that almost all the water intake pumps that pull from the lake are just floating in midair unable to pull in water
According to the video, 22,000,000 people in the Southwest get their water from Lake Mead (most everyone from Nevada, Southern California and Arizona)
god i forgot about the beautiful boaters and was so confused by your adjective choice
Because it (and many other reservoirs) are V-shaped, it will continue to go faster the lower it gets. Good times.
Lowest level of water since a year after the fucking Hoover Dam was made which established the reservoir
uhh...
Ha ha, good thing I haven't began to set up a life in a location that is entirely sourced from Mead and the Colorado. Bodes well
There was an interesting post last year or so where someone took the (then) current water levels and comparing them to FO:NV and the waters were lower IRL than in the estimates of the fictionalized post-apocalyptic Mojave.
Hahaha! Jokes on you! I'm already burning up to a crisp!
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Good thing we don’t dedicate most of the land to force people to water useless grass every day or get fined
It rocks that taking action a reasonable time before this becomes a crisis had been procrastinated on for probably a decade.
Shipping millions of bottles of water to reduce the risk of an Arizonan moving next door.
I sometimes think about how nature was somehow different when I was a kid. Some how lusher with more birds and bugs. I remember catching fireflys in jars. They aren't around anymore.
I saw fireflies just yesterday (Connecticut suburb)
However, I've definitely noticed a decrease in the number of butterflies, especially Monarchs and Swallowtails. They used to be common back in the 2000s, now I barely see any.
I've seen only one butterfly this entire year (orange with brown, I forgot the name). The only other one I see is the common white one.
I also see fewer honeybees and bumble bees. Carpenter bees are doing GREAT though lol
It's weird to hear stuff like this because I was in Upstate New York recently and the number of fireflies and butterflies have seem to have increased. Maybe the bugs are migrating.
:stop-posting-amogus: STOP BUILDING CITIES IN THE FUCKING DESERT
I'm actually surprised that most US states have lasted as long as they have.
do not, my friends, become addicted to water. it will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence
Euro settler style cities arent feasible in a much drier climate than where these settlers originated? Damn, whomst could have imagined
Also, build a fucking aqueduct from the PNW to southern California. There's more than enough water 1000 miles away, surely with modern technology building an aqueduct system of that scale is possible.
I know they would never do this, I'm just saying it's gotta be possible
