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Maybe it is drier, but not compared to normal? I'm not sure, it's hard to know if the map is accurate.
We just have a ****ton of dams, and a few rivers, but mainly dams. Not many rivers either, most of the large ones are away from the main towns meaning if they're dry or not doesn't affect scarcity, as they're never used anyway.
So a large part of the breadbasket of the US is "uninhabitable"? Here we go again. Because of the "bitterly cold winter" right? Uninhabitable is where you cannot sustain life and can't grow crops. Those green areas were settled in the 1800's and people survived fine there.
And Australia is probably vastly more uninhabitable than the US given their paltry rainfall and vast desert areas that could not sustain settlements in the 1800's. Interesting that the vast population of Australia hugs the coast. That is because early explorers went over those hills into the interior and never came back. The opposite happened here. Lewis and Clark went west and came back with amazing stories.
If not for the Midwest and it's climate, half the world would starve to death. LOL Our climate is perfect
These days thanks to irrigation, alot of food comes out of California and Arizona now
And California's Central Valley is in potential real trouble due to dought,
and growing certain crops, like almonds, that require a lot of water.
I watched an interesting, eye opening, documentary on it recently.
Not sure about AZ, you guys are still OK, most of your irrigation water comes from
the Colorado River.
Someday the entire western United States will be knocking on Canada's door
asking for water
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And California's Central Valley is in potential real trouble due to dought,
and growing certain crops, like almonds, that require a lot of water.
I watched an interesting, eye opening, documentary on it recently.
Not sure about AZ, you guys are still OK, most of your irrigation water comes from
the Colorado River.
Someday the entire western United States will be knocking on Canada's door
asking for water
We are already turning to desalination, take water from the Pacific amd remove the salt. A plant just opened in Carlsbad. More will come along as the technology gets cheaper
We just have a ****ton of dams, and a few rivers, but mainly dams. Not many rivers either, most of the large ones are away from the main towns meaning if they're dry or not doesn't affect scarcity, as they're never used anyway.
We have a large river flowing and yet the map says that we are physically deprived of water, whilst WA, which is even drier, isn't deprived of water? I don't get it.
At least we have Murray river. So I don't understand why we have water shortages?
Does WA even have rivers? I thought it's more drier there?
Yes, there are rivers all over Washington. LOL. For example, I have sisters in Wenatchee (central WA) and Spokane (eastern WA). They are both on the "dry side" of the state, but the Columbia River, which is huge, and the Spokane River, one of many tributaries of the Columbia, go right through their cities and I've never heard of a serious water shortage there.
And of course, the far western side of side of Washington, where Seattle is, is very wet.
We are already turning to desalination, take water from the Pacific amd remove the salt. A plant just opened in Carlsbad. More will come along as the technology gets cheaper
Nowhere near enough for drinking water much less the massive amounts needed for agriculture any time soon.
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