Look no further than the corporation farmers and their wasteful methods of flood watering along the Colorado all the way from Grand Junction to Yuma. It may be expensive to convert to drip irrigation but it will be much more cost effective now than a few years down the road when there is nary a trickle left.
The western edge of both North and South America is littered with evidence of past civilizations that have came and went based on the availability of water. We may or may not see another.
And yet 1/3 of Pakistan is under water, and Jackson’s decrepit water supply (both ends) has failed. Thank goodness these are acts of God and not related to climate change.
well-i-never almost 2 years ago
He’s not kidding. Lake Powell and Lake Mead are at 27% capacity.
Free Radical almost 2 years ago
Look no further than the corporation farmers and their wasteful methods of flood watering along the Colorado all the way from Grand Junction to Yuma. It may be expensive to convert to drip irrigation but it will be much more cost effective now than a few years down the road when there is nary a trickle left.
Durak Premium Member almost 2 years ago
This is a global, deadly serious problem
Havel almost 2 years ago
“Need” those golf courses and green lawns, right?
Radish the wordsmith almost 2 years ago
You need them cement ponds when you live in the desert.
Zebrastripes almost 2 years ago
Due to the drought, skeletons, artifacts, buried villages, and ships of yesteryear are exposed…
FrannieL Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Indeed it is a day of reckoning.
sandflea almost 2 years ago
Whatcha gonna do when the river runs dry?
oldchas almost 2 years ago
The western edge of both North and South America is littered with evidence of past civilizations that have came and went based on the availability of water. We may or may not see another.
schaefer jim almost 2 years ago
I believed they all were warned a few decades ago this was coming if certain steps are not started.
gammaguy almost 2 years ago
“I believed they all were warned a few decades ago this was coming if certain steps are not started.”
If they’re not listening now, they certainly wouldn’t have listened then.
Oh, right. They didn’t.
brucer31245 almost 2 years ago
People who live in a desert and have purty green lawns near purty green golf courses deserve to die of thirst.
daisypekin01 almost 2 years ago
the Colorado River has not reached the sea for years!
GiantShetlandPony almost 2 years ago
The worst offenders are the wealthy, because the fines for excessive water use are chump change for them.
A# 466 almost 2 years ago
And yet 1/3 of Pakistan is under water, and Jackson’s decrepit water supply (both ends) has failed. Thank goodness these are acts of God and not related to climate change.