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This subject is a particular interest of mine (and I have a thread going in the Self-Sufficiency sub-forum about it) because I find it fascinating how wide the disconnect is between business-as-usual and reality.
Just because fresh, safe water has always flowed from the tap does not mean you can always count on its being there for your use.
Any resident of the major metro areas mentioned in your article ought to think long and hard about the future as these population centers continue to add more residents with additional demands on the available water supplies.
I'd say just group ALL of socal into one listing. It used to be a desert. Riverside looks nice and green since people planted trees and grass but that was after water was imported. A bad quake along the canal that feeds water from nocal and millions of people in socal, at least the bottom third of the state, are going to instantly run dry. This is one of the things which figures prominently in the effects of a quake along the San Andreas since you can't just go and fix it.
The ONLY reason socal is such a mess now (and I'm sooooo glad I left) is water is brought in. Take that away and you end up with rural Oklahoma without the trees. We need to look at rainfall, and lake catches and other normally available supplies when we deal realistically with water availability down the road. If the acequduct goes, where is the state to find the money to build another one, for instance?
Don't be so sure, water rights are being purchased all over the country by T Boone Pickens and others; its use is and will be restricted.
If I'm not mistaken Ohio, and the rest of the Great Lakes have signed a pact to not allow the water to be piped to the south and southwest. I'll have to double check that. At any rate, if you want water, don't move to a desert.
This could be a wind fall for me, I have a artisian well on my property with so much water that I had to dig a trench line so it would not flood my land. So my plan is to start saving old milk cartons and filling them with water when the time is right. Then seek bids on ebay for the highest bidder. What do you think? will this plan work?
If I'm not mistaken Ohio, and the rest of the Great Lakes have signed a pact to not allow the water to be piped to the south and southwest. I'll have to double check that. At any rate, if you want water, don't move to a desert.
I think one of the great lakes has a botted water plant on it. They won't pipe it, just bottle it up.
Wow, I'm surprised my hometown of Fort Worth is on there... I was assuming it'd all be desert cities and such. But on the other hand, I am well aware of the badly managed growth Fort Worth has had in recent years, and so a fight over water rights actually is probably a standard result of that.
Other surprises are Houston and Orlando... I guess being in a wet climate does not equal water security...
The Southwestern cities there don't really surprise me, though. After all, a bunch of people moved to a desert!
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