What You Need to Know About the World's Water Wars

[cali]

PUBLISHED July 14, 2016


Beijing is sinking.


In some neighborhoods, the ground is giving way at a rate of four inches a year as water in the giant aquifer below it is pumped.


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Beijing isn’t the only place experiencing subsidence, or sinking, as soil collapses into space created as groundwater is depleted. Parts of Shanghai, Mexico City, and other cities are sinking, too. Sections of California’s Central Valley have dropped by a foot, and in some localized areas, by as much as 28 feet.

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Around the world, alarms are being sounded about the depletion of underground water supplies. The United Nations predicts a global shortfall in water by 2030. About 30 percent of the planet’s available freshwater is in the aquifers that underlie every continent.


More than two-thirds of the groundwater consumed around the world irrigates agriculture, while the rest supplies drinking water to cities. These aquifers long have served as a backup to carry regions and countries through droughts and warm winters lacking enough snowmelt to replenish rivers and streams. Now, the world’s largest underground water reserves in Africa, Eurasia, and the Americas are under stress. Many of them are being drawn down at unsustainable rates. Nearly two billion people rely on groundwater that is considered under threat.

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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/world-aquifers-water-wars/


Amazing map at link.

Water wars are going to exacerbate the oil wars currently being fought, and eventually dominate the geopolitical world.

[lapfog_1]

1. massive scale desalination

is the only answer I can think of, after we drive more efficiency into our usage.

[CrispyQ]

2. "...and in some localized areas, by as much as 28 feet."

The United Nations predicts a global shortfall in water by 2030.

In 15 years, will today's journalists (network news readers), look back & think, "Hell, we did the world a huge disservice by not reporting on things like climate change & overpopulation. How am I gonna tell my kids I was derelict in duty?"

[cali]

3. It's the CEOs and COOs of corporations that own those MSM outlets that should

but won't. And yeah, a global water shortfall in less than 15 years is a

BIG FUCKING DEAL

[Mendocino]

4. In many cases

the collapsed aquifers lose their ability to store water or as much water even if replenished. Another problem, pumping from increasingly deeper wells requires massive amounts of energy.