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Re: Water supply
By: WaterSupply Date: August 23, 2023, 12:45 pm
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Up to 75% of the world could be facing drought by 2050 - BBC
News
[quote]Levels of water scarcity in major economies such as the
US and China are soaring, with world annual water use rising by
billions of cubic metres over the last century.
The British Standards Institution says that without action, 75%
of the world's population could be facing drought by
2050.[/quote]
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Brought to you by one civilization and one civilization alone,
western civilization:
[quote]How did Industrial Revolution affect population growth?
The process of industrialization had begun, bringing about
profound changes over the lives of humans and their interactions
with the natural world. With improved living standard, lowered
death rate and prolonged life expectancy, human population grew
exponentially.[/quote]
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: WaterSupply Date: August 23, 2023, 1:22 pm
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Why Japan's Fukushima Decision is Problematic | Vantage with
Palki Sharma
[quote]Why Japan's Fukushima Decision is Problematic | Vantage
with Palki Sharma
Japan will start releasing waste water from the Fukushima power
plant on Thursday. The move has been criticised as selfish and
irresponsible by China and other neighbouring countries.
Could Japan have better prepared for the water release? What do
scientists say about Japan's plane to release contaminated
water? Palki Sharma tells you.[/quote]
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Re: Water supply
By: 90sRetroFan Date: August 28, 2023, 9:26 pm
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Skip to 7:00:
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Migration within India will not solve the problem. The only
correct solution is migration out of India. See also:
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HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/population-and-demographics/msg21717/#msg21717
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Re: Western civilization is a health hazard
By: . Date: September 9, 2023, 8:05 pm
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HTML https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/artificial-intelligence-technology-behind-chatgpt-131601493.html
Artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT was built in
Iowa - with a lot of water
[quote]
The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like
ChatGPT can be hard to measure.
But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology
was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon
and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa to cool a powerful
supercomputer as it helped teach its AI systems how to mimic
human writing.
As they race to capitalize on a craze for generative AI, leading
tech developers including Microsoft, OpenAI and Google have
acknowledged that growing demand for their AI tools carries
hefty costs, from expensive semiconductors to an increase in
water consumption.
But they’re often secretive about the specifics.
Building a large language model requires analyzing patterns
across a huge trove of human-written text. All of that computing
takes a lot of electricity and generates a lot of heat. To keep
it cool on hot days, data centers need to pump in water — often
to a cooling tower outside its warehouse-sized buildings.
Ren’s team estimates ChatGPT gulps up 500 milliliters of water
(close to what’s in a 16-ounce water bottle) every time you ask
it a series of between 5 to 50 prompts or questions
Google reported a 20% growth in water use in the same period,
which Ren also largely attributes to its AI work.
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Re: Water supply
By: 90sRetroFan Date: September 10, 2023, 7:10 pm
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Water apartheid:
HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/palestinian-water-woes-highlight-dashed-022214165.html
[quote]Thirty years after the landmark Oslo Accords, Palestinian
hopes for statehood seem as remote as ever and popular
frustration is rife -- nowhere more than over access to water.
...
today, Palestinians complain of unequal access to clean water,
even as Israel boasts a world-class system with vast underground
tunnels and pipes, coastal desalination plants, high-efficiency
water usage and wastewater recycling.
...
Dudin is not allowed to dig for water on his land without
permission, under rules that were cemented by the Oslo Accords
of the 1990s and follow-up agreements.
...
Area C residents must seek Israeli permits for any construction,
including wells, but in practice these are almost impossible to
obtain.
This is despite the establishment of a Joint Water Committee
under the Accords.
Palestinian former water negotiator Shaddad Attili ridiculed the
committee as a "Mickey Mouse forum" in which, he said, Israel
often rejects projects or stalls them for years.
"Whenever we say no to an Israeli project, they implement it
anyway, because they do have the power," he charged.
Israel's Water Authority declined to be interviewed and directed
AFP to COGAT, which also refused repeated requests to discuss
the topic.
...
Attiyat harnesses drip irrigation to use the water sparingly.
"The situation is really miserable," said the 42-year-old, who
receives support from the UN World Food Programme.
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Water scarcity is no problem in the Israeli settlement bloc of
Gush Etzion, said its spokesman Josh Hasten.
The Gush Etzion settlements, like other ones across the West
Bank, are deemed illegal under international law and have
expanded massively since the 1990s.
Excluding east Jerusalem, the occupied territory is now home to
around 490,000 Israeli settlers.
Hasten praised the massive investments in seawater desalination,
which now supplies 63 percent of Israeli domestic usage, and
other "advancements and improvements".
He slammed the Oslo Accords as "a complete disaster in every
which way, shape or form" and accused the Palestinian Authority
of mismanaging natural resources.
Water scarcity suffered by Palestinians is most acute in Gaza,
the crowded and impoverished coastal enclave blockaded by Israel
that is home to around 2.3 million people.
Past wars and restrictions on imports of construction materials,
spare parts and fuel have devastated much of Gaza's water and
sanitation infrastructure, driving a public health crisis.
...
Nada Majdalani, Palestine director of the group EcoPeace, said
that, three decades after the Oslo Accords, "there needs to be a
holistic mechanism of managing water resources that would meet
all needs."
Her Israeli counterpart Gidon Bromberg said it is "madness" that
the water issue is still tied to a broader peace deal.[/quote]
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Re: Climate, Weather, and Climate Effects, 2020 and Beyond
By: Neagh Date: September 26, 2023, 12:28 pm
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Lough Neagh: Largest freshwater lake in UK and Ireland
threatened by toxic algae
[quote]Environmental campaigners in Northern Ireland are worried
about pollution in a large lake called Lough Neagh.
The water from Lough Neagh provides half of Belfast's drinking
water and around 40% for the rest of Northern Ireland.
It's the biggest freshwater lake in the whole of the UK and
Ireland.
There has been a big bloom of blue-green algae in Lough Neagh
this summer, which is harmful to the wildlife that lives in and
around it, and anyone who enters the water.[/quote]
Entire article:
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[img]
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Re: Water supply
By: BrazilDrought Date: October 28, 2023, 10:50 pm
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Brazil drought: Misery for hundreds of thousands as rains fail
[quote]Drought in Brazil's Amazon affects 600k+ people, 60
cities in emergency. Climate change worsens El Ninho's impact.
Families are walking kilometers on dry sand, queuing for food
and water, as the most severe drought in 120 years has isolated
entire communities. The Amazon, home to the world's largest
rainforest, is suffering from a lack of water, causing severe
food and water shortages. The region depends on its rivers for
transportation, and the drought has made it difficult for the
people to fetch the food packages and water sent by the
government. Scientists say that climate change has made the
situation worse, and the rainy season may take longer to arrive.
Brazilians are waiting for relief as they endure the effects of
this natural phenomenon.[/quote]
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Comments:
[quote]
Rivers all over the world are changing in nature like this. The
Mississippi etc goes from old man river to a seasonal creature.
Weather extremes are still treated as contingency rather than a
waypoint to a constantly changing set of conditions. Past
experience is becoming useless.[/quote]
[quote]How big is the Brazilian deforestation issue? In 2022,
Brazil registered by far the largest area of primary forest loss
in the world, amounting to nearly two million hectares. This was
roughly the same area as the remaining top nine countries
combined.[/quote]
[quote]I wonder if deforesting 20 - 25% of the rainforest might
have added to this issue.[/quote]
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Re: Water supply
By: NarrativeInCrisis Date: November 10, 2023, 10:35 pm
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Shrinking Lake Titicaca rings climate alarm bell
[quote]The exposed cracked floors of parts of Lake Titicaca,
South America's largest body of fresh water and the highest
navigable lake in the world nestled amid the Andes mountains,
are an alarming sight for local farmer Manuel Flores
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Re: Water supply
By: PinkPonds Date: November 11, 2023, 3:56 pm
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Drought likely cause for pink pond in Maui
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Re: Water supply
By: NAlabama Date: November 13, 2023, 1:47 am
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Drought Conditions Worsen
[quote]The drought continues to worsen across much of North
Alabama and Southern Middle Tennessee.[/quote]
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