Overuse is draining and damaging aquifers nationwide, a New York Times data investigation revealed.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html
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Previous discussion here:
Therealenvironmental crisis's/insects dying-dead zones-aquifers drying up-plastics in the ocean-landfills/trash-over consumption of natural resources-REAL pollution in the air/soil/water-WIND TURBINES (metmike is a PRACTICING environmentalist): April 2019
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquifer
An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing, permeable rock, rock fractures, or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, or silt). Groundwater from aquifers can be extracted using a water well. Water from aquifers can be sustainably harvested through the use of qanats.[1] Aquifers vary greatly in their characteristics. The study of water flow in aquifers and the characterization of aquifers is called hydrogeology. Related terms include aquitard, which is a bed of low permeability along an aquifer, and aquiclude (or aquifuge), which is a solid, impermeable area underlying or overlying an aquifer, the pressure of which could lead to the formation of a confined aquifer. The classification of aquifers is as follows: Saturated versus unsaturated; aquifers versus aquitards; confined versus unconfined; isotropic versus anisotropic; porous, karst, or fractured; transboundary aquifer.
Challenges for using groundwater include: overdrafting (extracting groundwater beyond the equilibrium yield of the aquifer), groundwater-related subsidence of land, groundwater becoming saline, groundwater pollution.
Schematic of an aquifer showing confined zones, groundwater travel times, a spring and a well
Talk about a disconnect below!!!
84% of farmers stated that they think aquifer depletion is a serious/very serious problem but only 20% think they personally should reduce water use.
Sort of like all these rich celebrities and politicians that tell us CO2 is killing the planet, while they are responsible for 50 times the emissions of most people.
Huge difference here though.
The fake climate crisis killing the planet because of a beneficial gas at half the optimal level for life, which is massively greening up the planet, while we experience the best weather/climate for most life/crops in the previous 1,000 years(last time it was this warm) is manufactured to scare us.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/69258/
Actions to curb the fake climate crisis are actually the ones wrecking the planet!!!
However, the draining of the Ogallala Aquifer is a REAL crisis because its REALLY being drained and there will be REAL consequences that are catastrophic to the future people living there.
The ones in this survey most responsible for draining it, insist they don't think they are responsible. We either:
1. make big cuts now to save more for later or
2. we make small cuts now to save a little more for later or
3. we do nothing and run out sooner and future generations will either suffer greatly or move to another place that has water.
4. build a pipeline with Missouri or Mississippi water that is piped south/west
Viadero’s team estimated that the sale of the water needed to fill the Colorado River’s Lake Powell and Lake Mead — the largest reservoirs in the country — would cost more than $134 billion at a penny a gallon. The price tag for construction would add to this hefty bill, along with the costs of powering the equipment needed to pump the water over the Western Continental Divide.
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We can't afford that price tag. We need that money for more important things than drinking and crop raising water for people in the United States(-: sarcasm
For $134 billion the last 1.7 years we killed 500,000 Russians and Ukrainians with 1 trillion in damages, 1% in inflation and forced a Russia, China, North Korea, Iran alliance.
That's alot of NEGATIVE bang for our buck to enrich the military-industrial-political complex..
How is providing a trillion gallons of fresh water to Americans supposed to convince our totally corrupted political leaders to support something that they can't get a bigger kickback on?
What we need is rich water lobbyist's to bribe our politicians, like they do to turn them into corrupt war hawks because of hundreds of thousands of donations each year to individual political accounts like with corrupt SOBs like Lindsey Graham and Nikki Haley.
Or, we could throw out all the politicians and get honest ones, which is impossible. They are in control. Each side telling lies that are what that side wants to hear so they get votes from those people. Then, they do things to ENRICH THEMSELVES FIRST.
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A solution to this problem will be based more on whether politicians and crony capitalists can make a bunch of money on it rather than what would help Americans in the water starved Plains and West.
And then, there are the fake/misinformed environmentalists that will object. They are just fine with wind power killing millions of birds/bats and hundreds of whales. Along with solar power and batteries, destroying landscapes/ecosystems and tearing up the earth for raw materials while calling them GREEN energy solutions needed to save the planet thats already massively greening up from beneficial CO2 emissions.
In essence, we are doing the complete opposite of what makes the most sense for the environment, planet and people living on it in most of the realms related to this topic.
While the crony capitalists, politicians and those bribing the politicians are stealing our tax dollars to become rich by tricking people to support and vote for them.
AT LEAST THAT WAY, THE BARGES WOULD BOTTOM OUT, SOONER & WE'D ALL DIE OF THISRT & HUNGER. LOLOLOL
This would be extremely costly of course and take, maybe 2 decades and only be used at times when the Mississippi had high river levels.
We should keep in mind that trillions of gallons are wasted as they get dumped into the Gulf of Mexico.
This would provide an added benefit to help a tiny bit to slow down ocean levels from rising as fast.
Fact is that ground water being pumped out and some running into the oceans is responsible for 25% of the rising sea levels.
https://revealnews.org/article/overpumping-of-groundwater-is-contributing-to-global-sea-level-rise/
https://sealevel.nasa.gov/news/254/linking-water-from-land-to-sea-level-rise/
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/groundwater-depletion-earths-axis
