Green | September 29, 2010 | 5 comments

Southwest US Headed For Water Crisis

source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/28/us/28mead.html

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Proud_Progressive
This is nothing new to anyone that has been paying attention. This part of the Earth just isn't meant to be inhabited and used the way it currently is.
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5 comments // Southwest US Headed For Water Crisis

  • ausetkmt
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  

    • Unfortunately not many are paying attention. Political pissing matches are all this site seems to be about lately. What is happening to Lake Mead is a direct result of human greed and apathy. We have no one to blame but ourselves. The first step in mitigating this crisis is to admit that, and from there we can work on solving the problem. Unfortunately, human pride dictates that we always find another source for the blame to absolve ourselves from our selfish wasteful behavior. In doing so it gives us license to continue said behavior safe in the knowledge that we can still have what we want when we want it... until the well runs dry. But of course, then we will just find another source to ravage to get what we want, and then another, and another... not thinking that sooner or later that too will run dry.

    • 2 years ago
  • Proud_Progressive
  • JanforGore
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      JanforGore  
    • Proud_Progressive:

      That too. People on the whole believe water can never run out so it doesn't matter how much they use. What they don't understand is that the hydrologic cycle has been effected by human behavior as well and the water they once depended on may not be in that area the more they waste it and the more climate change affects this region as well.

    • 2 years ago
  • Proud_Progressive
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