It's A Freaking Desert

[twocorgis]

Sorry, the water belongs to Nestle.

I was going to resist chiming in (piling on?) here, but Nestle is indeed a rather large part of the problem, as are all the tree nuts that are grown in places that they shouldn't be. Tree nuts use a massive amount of water, and in a place where three arid states are fighting over an increasingly dwindling, single source of water. The whole situation is completely unsustainable, and I wouldn't worry so much, but running out of water there will have massive repercussions for the rest of this country.

In addition to golf courses, why does Vegas allow a place like the Bellagio to be built? Wait...I think I know the answer to that.

 

[Westerly Wood]

maybe they should send in Erin Brokovich to solve.

 

[Guildedagain]

Is it me or does she look better with age, I mean she's way hotter now than she was them just saying ;]

Mentioning Nestle had nothing to do with nuts, they take lots of water that should stay in the environment to bottle, a contentious amount to the people being dried out.

W's back?


;]

 

[Westerly Wood]

Hey Guilded!
Yes, good to be back in the fold.
Still got the 2 Guild acoustics, the Br is what I use, my wife uses the F30r. Perfect size for her.

w

 

[Guildedagain]

Figured the bass took you to the low/deep end ;]

Here's a really cool version of this old favorite for us 70's victims.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Is it me or does she look better with age, I mean she's way hotter now than she was them just saying ;]

Mentioning Nestle had nothing to do with nuts, they take lots of water that should stay in the environment to bottle, a contentious amount to the people being dried out.

W's back?


;]

Yep. If someone would have told me back in high school that one day a 16oz bottle of tap water will cost close to $2 and will sell like hot cakes, I'd have called them clinically insane!! People walking around sipping bottled water all day long, making sure their pee stays clear. It's crazy. The human body knows exactly how much water it needs, and has this pretty neat mechanism that lets you know. Not sure if people remember it, but it's something called "being thirsty". Personally, I reject all bottled water unless I'm in a part of the world w/ horrid water quality. Thankfully, my home tap water is some of the best in the country, and is much more stringently tested and regulated than any of the bottled stuff....which is all just municipal tap water guised as coming from some magical alpine spring. It's the biggest rip off known to man. And to think Coke and Pepsi just turn off the sugar syrup and carbonation, bottle the water, and charge you more than the soft drink for it!! Insanity!

 

[Westerly Wood]

Figured the bass took you to the low/deep end ;]

Here's a really cool version of this old favorite for us 70's victims.

So my favorite show at 12 and 13 was Welcome Back Kotter. Gabe Kaplin was brillian and so funny...
All those characters too.

I used to watch every episode before dinner, then call a girl I really liked from a phone hanging off the wall to tell her the joke at the end of the show.

 

[crank]

Yep. If someone would have told me back in high school that one day a 16oz bottle of tap water will cost close to $2 and will sell like hot cakes, I'd have called them clinically insane!! People walking around sipping bottled water all day long, making sure their pee stays clear. It's crazy. The human body knows exactly how much water it needs, and has this pretty neat mechanism that lets you know. Not sure if people remember it, but it's something called "being thirsty". Personally, I reject all bottled water unless I'm in a part of the world w/ horrid water quality. Thankfully, my home tap water is some of the best in the country, and is much more stringently tested and regulated than any of the bottled stuff....which is all just municipal tap water guised as coming from some magical alpine spring. It's the biggest rip off known to man. And to think Coke and Pepsi just turn off the sugar syrup and carbonation, bottle the water, and charge you more than the soft drink for it!! Insanity!

Actually, when I lived in Southern California back in the late 70's - early 80's our tap water had a terrible chlorine smell. The local little reservoir was between a town dump and the coast and it was a major hangout for seagulls. It was full of bird poop. We had one of those water dispensers that hold a 5-gallon bottle upside down and that's what we drank and cooked with. Arrowhead Spring Water delivered. Bet we went through a lot of those bottles. I had the thought, more than once, that this, meaning bottled or spring water, is a growing business and I should figure out a way to get into it. Never did though.

Anybody watch Goliath, season 3 on Amazon Prime? Weird but good and it was all about almond growers stealing water in CA's Imperial Valley.

 

[twocorgis]

Hey Guilded!
Yes, good to be back in the fold.
Still got the 2 Guild acoustics, the Br is what I use, my wife uses the F30r. Perfect size for her.

w

I didn't mean to conflate the two, as they are separate issues. Nestle's water greed is a large part of the problem in the southwest for sure, and so (separately) is the the tree nut thing.

What did Sam Kinison say? "We have deserts in America too, but we don't live in them". Only we do.

 

[gjmalcyon]

Some farmers in California have started diverting storm channel drainage into their fields where it can replenish the water table which is being drawn down at a ferocious rate to make up for the lack of fall and winter rain and snow:

New tool aims to amplify groundwater with floodwater | Stanford News

Using a new computer framework, scientists are able to project future floodwaters under a changing climate. The approach could help California water managers plan for and redirect floodwaters toward groundwater aquifers, alleviating both flood and drought risks.

news.stanford.edu

 

[tommym]

Many of us will be drinking recycled sewage water in the future.

Tommy

 

[davismanLV]

Not sure everyone will enjoy but this song addresses time going by, changes, and people screwing up the earth. "Time goes, where does the time go? I wonder where the time goes....."

 

[5thumbs]

Ah, Joni. Always good. Thanks for that.

 

[bobouz]

Having read 1968’s The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich, the whole “This place is actually just a desert!” thing was already on my mind by the time I left SoCal (Pasadena) in the summer of 1971. There are so many things we’ve known about for a very long time, and unfortunately the easy way out has always been to just kick the can a little bit further down the road.

 

[walrus]

MAD magazine mini-poster from the early '70's. As usual, MAD was ahead of it's time.



walrus

 

[fronobulax]

Those who read speculative fiction might be interested in The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi.

 

[Cougar]

Our place overlooks Lake Pend Oreille (pronounced Ponderay up here). It's a big lake -- 148 square miles of surface area and over 1,000 feet deep. Every November they drain 10 feet off the top (that's a lot of water!) to prepare for the winter snow melt, which is used to fill the lake back up in April. If they didn't reduce the level in November, it would flood every year in April-May.

We have a well. Free water.

 

[crank]

I had 2 houses with wells. The water was never free. lol. Because of things like pumps and pipes breaking I figured out having well water cost about the same as being hooked up to a municipal supply.

 

[Opsimath]

Where does the water they drain off go?

 

[Opsimath]

We have three wells here on the farm. Well, four if the original hand dug well is counted but pulling water up with a bucket has little appeal so it's not being used. True that the water is not "free" because of maintenance and electricity to run the pumps, but we are not charged for every gallon we use, or use to irrigate the field/gardens, or fill up the livestock water troughs. Bonus is that there are no chemicals added. Our water tastes just like the bottled stuff, meaning it does not have a taste or a smell, and that's a good thing.

We were at an agricultural expo some years ago. It was hot, and people were filling their containers with water to drink from faucets on the facility grounds. More than once I saw people take a sip and then heard, "Aah! City water!"