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It even shows why some aquifers may never replenish. The layer of the aquifer is not tightly compressed and can hold water. When the water is released and the layer starts to compress from the weight from above, its ability to hold water is permanently diminished.
Happens to Teheran and many Indian cities. Viewable via satellite.
Unpopular (or at least unconventional) opinion: depleted aquifers are a good thing, because it's turns one of the externalities of outrageously exploited agriculture into a true cost. More expensive food means less land use and less energy spent irrigating what we do grow. (I felt the same way about "peak oil" 20 years ago, but alas fracking messed that guess up.)
That's the issue, I've found, with hoping that calamity will make the problems visible enough to shock us into making systemic changes. Humans are very good at inventing clever short-term "solutions" that ameliorate the symptoms but wind up making the long-term problem worse. I have no doubt that if/when global civilization fails due to global warming, we'll wind up burning everything in sight to power our air condit…
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well then why did you move in there, lol
Well the lawn rule was probably a non-issue because it was cheap/easy/morally justifiable enough to comply with with at the time and appeared it would be for the foreseeable future.
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Do you know of any good articles on this. I.E. futures for the small family-run farm?
There's magazines like this one ( https://www.agweb.com/farmjournal); however it sounds like we'd have different ideas of small though. Outside of direct to consumer farmers market type opperations, "small" farms in the US are still measured in thousands of acres (just, 4 figures instead of 6). The meta markets in how and when you sell crops (pre sale on the futures market vs sale at harvest, vs store and wait for co…
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I'm sure that your job is very wonderful, but the NAWPA post was not entirely serious, and I hope that a water resources researcher would realize that first of all. For one thing, it's not a municipal drinking water project, it's an irrigation project to deliver large amounts of water to (potential) cropland in the American Southwest. It's really about (massively) increasing US (and therefore world) food production.…
See it as you want, but that's a pretty negative view on the entire situation. We as humans are very resilient and we'll continue to find a way to make it through. This also isn't a localized issue but an international issue with localized variable impact. It doesn't exactly work like the way you described... But hey you do you! I'm aware that NAWPA post wasn't entire serious, but the thing is that similar to how peo…
Yet another strange, nearly zero-information post. Another post you made the other week sheds more light on this job of yours:
>I work in critical infrastructure planning. My organization builds software in R, Python, and other programming languages customized for these major organizations.