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Related: About this forumThe United States of Drought
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/10/22WASHINGTON - As the planet heats up and larger populations demand larger water supplies, the United States will be left high and dry if it fails to address a worsening water shortage.
By 2060, the gap between water supply and demand could grow to nearly four billion cubic metres per year 10 times the amount of water used by the desert-bound city of Las Vegas.
Water shortage has huge ramifications not just for the entire national economy as farmers, ranchers, cotton producers have to cope with less and less water but also for the natural system itself, Adam Freed, the director of the Securing Water Programme at the Nature Conservancy, an environmental organisation here, told IPS. And climate change is only going to make it worse.
According to a new trend analysis by scientists in the public and private sectors, U.S. population growth of nearly one percent and rising global temperatures will result in a clear and significant supply-and-demand imbalance.
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The United States of Drought (Original Post)
xchrom
Oct 2013
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newfie11
(8,159 posts)1. This is the reason we sold the farm 3 weeks ago
Now live back in SD Black Hills.
Water for farming is going to be a high scarce priority in the very near future and that includes irrigation water.
So glad I'm retired.
pscot
(21,024 posts)2. Did you sell to aan individual
or did Big Ag buy the place?
newfie11
(8,159 posts)3. Two rich city slickers
From Maryland. They have hired a farmer to farm it for them.
pscot
(21,024 posts)4. You've done well, Pilgrim