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Water supply
DIR By: guest5
Date: February 15, 2021, 12:55 pm
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Why Iraq's great rivers are dying
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> And the timing couldn't be worse.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c7AuSQdvow
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Water supply
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 20, 2021, 1:32 am
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How serious is the water crisis in China's Taiwan region?
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> China's #Taiwan​ region is facing the worst
#water​ #crisis​ in 56 years. The historic drought
is putting pressure on crucial semiconductor manufacturing at a
time when global companies are clamoring for chips, and the
local authorities are taking criticism for their drought
alleviation approach. How serious is it? Will it pose a threat
to the global supply of semiconductors? And what are the
political ramifications?
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_CTK9ym43M
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> A H
> 6 days ago
> Japan has some a lot of water that they want to dump into
Pacific Ocean. China and Korea protest and Taiwan is ok with
it. Taiwan can import this Japanese water, I’m sure Japan
would be happy to share.
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Re: Population and Demographics
DIR By: guest5
Date: April 23, 2021, 9:13 pm
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Los Angeles Races To Avoid A 'Megadrought'
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Water supply
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 15, 2021, 2:24 pm
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The Water Wars Are Coming
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> The world faces a looming water crisis, and it's getting worse
every year. With a number of large cities facing Day Zero, and
just a handful of heavily contested water sources providing
freshwater for millions of people, the possibility of water wars
is very real. In this episode we'll look at the current state of
water insecurity and speculate about the future of water-based
conflicts, including whether they will replace those fought over
oil.
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnJ4gjVZqao&list=TLPQMTUwNTIwMjG-kv0gNJoBag&index=3
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Re: Population and Demographics
DIR By: guest5
Date: May 18, 2021, 11:29 pm
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Pakistan could run out of water fresh water sources by 2040
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> Pakistan is one of 43 countries deemed most at risk from a
lack of fresh water. Obaida Hitto has this report on how one
Karachi suburb is working to keep the vital resource flowing.
> #WaterCrisis
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_qIs0pbJsQ&list=TLPQMTkwNTIwMjFDzUMICsO-aQ&index=4
#Post#: 14853--------------------------------------------------
Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 23, 2022, 11:58 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/taps-run-dry-monterrey-mexico-090054182.html
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> Taps have run dry in Monterrey, Mexico, where there is water
for factories but not for residents
> ...
> Drought has drained the three reservoirs that provide about
60% of the water for the region’s 5 million residents. Most
homes now receive water for only a few hours each morning. And
on the city’s periphery, many taps have run dry.
> ...
> Many are angry at government officials and also the region’s
mega-factories, which have largely continued work as usual
thanks to federal concessions that allow them to suck water from
the strained aquifer via private wells.
>
> Experts say the crisis unfolding here is a stark warning for
the rest of Mexico — as well as the American West.
> ...
> Monterrey sits at the semiarid tail of the Rio Grande basin,
which stretches 1,800 miles from the snowcapped Colorado Rockies
to the Gulf of Mexico and is fed by tributaries from both sides
of the border. The reservoirs behind two of the three dams that
serve it are nearly empty.
> ...
> Along with the southwestern United States, nearly 60% of
Mexico is in drought. Climatologists say it is linked to the
weather event known as La Niña, whose effects are intensifying
with climate change
> ...
> But the fact that the region's biggest factories have seen no
cuts to their water supplies doesn’t sit well with many
> ...
> In San Pedro Garza Garcia, a Monterrey suburb that is the
wealthiest area in Mexico, some houses have green lawns and
brimming swimming pools.
> ...
> Vivienne Bennett, a professor emerita at Cal State San Marcos
who wrote a book about a previous water crisis in Monterrey
during the 1970s and 1980s, said the industrialists who helped
establish the city as a manufacturing powerhouse ensured that
factories and wealthy neighborhoods had the best water
infrastructure.
> ...
> On the factory floor, she and her friends talked about how it
was possible that the plant had water to flush toilets and cool
down machines when its workers didn't have enough water at home
to prepare beans.
>
> The plants in her beloved garden — herbs, flowers, a peach
tree — were drooping a little in the heat. But how could she
give them water when she and her family didn't have enough to
drink?
>
> On her $10-a-day salary, she didn't have money to waste on
bottled water. "Sometimes when you're thirsty, you just suck on
your own saliva," Diaz said.
>
> “I’m mad,” she continued. “But I don’t know who to be mad at.”
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Answer: Western civilization.
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 25, 2022, 10:56 am
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HTML https://us.yahoo.com/news/japan-regulators-approve-release-fukushima-072958935.html
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> Japan regulators approve release of Fukushima water into sea
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: July 30, 2022, 6:53 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-change-intensifying-water-cycle-152332153.html
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> Studies by scientists around the world show that the water
cycle has been intensifying and will continue to intensify as
the planet warms. An international climate assessment I
coauthored in 2021 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change lays out the details.
>
> It documented an increase in both wet extremes, including more
intense rainfall over most regions, and dry extremes, including
drying in the Mediterranean, southwestern Australia,
southwestern South America, South Africa and western North
America. It also shows that both wet and dry extremes will
continue to increase with future warming.
>
> Why is the water cycle intensifying?
>
> Water cycles through the environment, moving between the
atmosphere, ocean, land and reservoirs of frozen water. It might
fall as rain or snow, seep into the ground, run into a waterway,
join the ocean, freeze or evaporate back into the atmosphere.
Plants also take up water from the ground and release it through
transpiration from their leaves. In recent decades, there has
been an overall increase in the rates of precipitation and
evaporation.
>
> A number of factors are intensifying the water cycle, but one
of the most important is that warming temperatures raise the
upper limit on the amount of moisture in the air. That increases
the potential for more rain.
> ...
> Understanding this and other changes in the water cycle is
important for more than preparing for disasters. Water is an
essential resource for all ecosystems and human societies, and
particularly agriculture.
>
> What does this mean for the future?
>
> An intensifying water cycle means that both wet and dry
extremes and the general variability of the water cycle will
increase, although not uniformly around the globe.
> ...
>
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>
> Globally, daily extreme precipitation events will likely
intensify by about 7% for every 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees
Fahrenheit) that global temperatures rise.
>
> Many other important aspects of the water cycle will also
change in addition to extremes as global temperatures increase,
the report shows, including reductions in mountain glaciers,
decreasing duration of seasonal snow cover, earlier snowmelt and
contrasting changes in monsoon rains across different regions,
which will impact the water resources of billions of people.
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 2, 2022, 7:51 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/dead-fish-litter-dried-pond-171103960.html
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> Dead fish litter the cracked dirt of what was once a pond
beside the Trinity River, their bodies mummified by the Texas
sun, video shows.
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Re: Water supply
DIR By: 90sRetroFan
Date: August 4, 2022, 3:38 pm
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HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/un-warns-two-largest-us-154329318.html
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> the two biggest water reservoirs in the United States have
dwindled to “dangerously low levels” due to the impacts of
climate change.
>
> The situation has become so severe that these reservoirs, Lake
Mead and Lake Powell, are on the verge of reaching “dead pool
status” — the point at which water levels drop so low that
downstream flow ceases
> ...
> The Colorado River system supplies water to more than 40
million people and irrigates about 5.7 million acres of
agriculture. The system serves seven states — Colorado, New
Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Nevada and California — as well
as Mexico.
>
> Scientists have already estimated that Lake Mead and Lake
Powell, which are fed by the river, will plunge to 25 percent of
their capacity by the end of this year.
>
> Meanwhile, only about 10 percent of the Colorado River’s
natural flow, which has been heavily diverted throughout history
along its 1,400-mile course, now reaches Mexico.
>
> “In the long term we need to address the root causes of
climate change as well as water demands,” Morgado added.
>
> The combined impacts of climate change and overconsumption
have exacerbated the crisis, as frequent droughts and
temperature rises confront an expanding population, the UNEP
statement said.
>
> While the situation may be dire in the American West, the
agency stressed that what is happening in the region is
indicative of a wider global trend.
>
> Across the world, hundreds of millions of people are impacted
by climate change as drought and desertification become “the new
normal,” according to UNEP.
>
> “We are talking about a 20-year period of drought-like
conditions with an ever-increasing demand on water,” Bernhardt
said. “These conditions are alarming, and particularly in the
Lake Powell and Lake Mead region, it is the perfect storm.”
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