#U s. Has depleted Two Lake eries'Worth Of Groundwater Since 1900over the last century the U s. has depleted enough of its underground freshwater supply to fill Lake erie twice according to a new study from the U s. Geological Survey.
Here's another way to understand how much water we've used. Just between 2000 and 2008 the latest period in the study and the period of fastest depletion Americans brought enough water aboveground to contribute to 2 percent of worldwide ocean level rise in that time.
We think it's serious Leonard Konikow the U s. Geological Survey hydrologist who performed the study tells Popular Science.
They can also suck dry springs wetlands and other surface water features Konikow wrote in a report the survey published yesterday.
Rainfall and rivers all carry water back into the ground and in some areas the local government even pumps water underground in an effort to maintain their aquifers.
Nevertheless those two Lake eries'worth of water refers to how much net groundwater the U s. has lost as people are taking it out much faster than it's going in.
'I believe in 50 years more of less farming and industrial use that has consumed the lakes reservoir and aquifers.
The west coast is overdue for a 9 the east coast is also overdue for a 9. It may be 50 to 100 years before it moves
@Wonder I believe in 50 years more of less farming and industrial use that has consumed the lakes reservoir and aquifers.
Thanks to human activity there has been an amount of freshwater equal to the volume of 2 Lake eries
in the earth's lakes and rivers has dried up. Yet strangely the earth's sea levels have not risen enough to account for all of this lost freshwater.
So just where has gone it if the claims of global warmists are to be believed?@@Riff Raff*LOL*How do YOU know the seas haven't risen accordingly?
Are you a scientist who studies these things? Water scarcity and climate change/global warming are in their infancy.
I know it's easier to stick your head in the sand and convince yourself
Rockets need to scream through the stratosphere to the point 62 miles above the sea level where space is said conventionally to begin.
and take off from a carrier at open sea and has the radar signature of a mosquito.
As improbable as it sounds scientists think early primates crossed the Atlantic ocean and landed on the shores of both continents tens of millions of years ago probably on some kind of vegetation raft.
Any primate living in say the Great lakes region simply went extinct unable to cope with the new Wisconsin winters.
There's a breeding colony of 3500 rhesus monkeys on a SC sea island. They're owned by the NIH
--i disagree--at one time there werent any massive oceans there must have been large seas between the continents---during the cooling period of earths formation steam was settled developing
which in the gaps between the continents causing water to develop in the gaps causing seas to develop
so millions of years ago the oceans hadnt been developed yet only these seas from from
and cross the world travelling around the sea between africa and north america coming to our part of
the world. the oceans were formed from the 4 glaciation periods that came about. during each glaciation period the gaps between the continents were getting filled up with water from the melted ice on top of the world from a gigantic block of ice many thousands
and by the time the last glaciation period ended the oceans had formed fully . but before thenprimates just migrated from africa to here walking around the sea. even camels were here. there bones have been found in tucsonarizona;
they migrated also travelling around the sea. in south america there are drawings on cliffs of animals that existed in africa
and apparently they migated from africa also travelling around the sea. there could have been two seas-one in the northern hemisphere
and one in the southern hemisphereand the animals leaving africa for south america could have travelled around a sea in the southern hemisphere. mr. george-i forgot to mention that
when the primates came to the united states they discovered there werent bananas here so they didnt stay
Over the past few decades the largest lake in the middle East Iran's Lake Urmia has been drying up:
I'd sooner begin thinking moving inland than living near the coast or start building humongous dikes..
evidence of ancient coastlines from 10000 years ago have been found now 400-500 feet under water
We could also put more lakes around the USA on mountains for farming and as the water is used for farms the electricity can be stored
The lakes can be a type of energy reserve for windmills solar panels any type of solar generating plant.
Last fall 1000 miles to the east my family in New jersey bailed out their entire homes after Hurricane Sandy tore down the Jersey Shore.
This pipeline which would bring oil from Canada's tar sands to the Texas Gulf Coast needs a presidential permit to move forward.
Sea levels are rising. Storms are becoming more severe. Really Popsci???Can we just report science and not some Greeie Leftist propaganda??
About 85%of the oxygen comes from the oceans. Every time you throw away a napkin
For example trash in the ocean is not the same argument when addressing manmade climate change.
We understand how oceans absorb the CO2 and acidify. We understand that global warming is creating thermal expansion of our oceans.
These things are facts. Oh but it's not us doing it. We have to be arrogant to think we could affect our big ol'planet.
#How Toxic Dumping Led To Tragedy In A Small Seaside Townthe big money though came not from refurbishing waste drums
and privacy in the deep woods of Ocean County to manufacture dyes and plastics on a massive scale.
but trucks were banned north of Toms River.)They found plenty of willing partners among the farmers of Monmouth Burlington and Ocean counties.
The real estate boom had reached not yet into the rural inland areas of the state and chickens could not compete with hazardous waste as a cash crop
Wilson offered his family farm in Ocean County's Plumsted Township as a dumpsite for Morton's toxic wastes
A generation later when investigators finally assessed the damage they identified two dozen major hazardous waste sites in Ocean County alone including seven farms and three town dumps.
The Ocean County Prosecutor's Office did not begin going after dumpers until 1980 when an investigator named Dane Wells started trying to track them down.
Frank Fernicola followed his father into the drum business working first in Newark and then Toms River where his clients included Toms River Chemical.
but had to give up his hauling permit after he was convicted in the late 1960s of illegally dumping chemical drums at the old Manchester Township landfill about ten miles west of Toms River.
He hauled sodium waste from a North Jersey chemical plant to Beachwood just south of Toms River
In 1966 when he was followed 31 he his brother south to Toms River running a gas station for a few years
When he returned to Toms River Nick Fernicola bounced through a series of construction jobs:
The Rustic Acres was a blue-collar landmark in Ocean County until it was torn finally down in the late 1970s.
Toms River Chemical and the Lakehurst Naval Air station. Its wooden tables and stools would fill up at the four o'clock shift change and again at midnight.
and had worked friends who at the company's huge chemical plant on the Raritan River about 60 miles north in the town of Bound Brook.
The two men (Fernicola would later claim to investigators that he never knew their real names) worked at the Dover Township Municipal Landfill the town dump for Toms River.
When Fernicola carried his first load to Toms River on April 1 a low-level manager at Union carbide followed him to confirm that he was dumping at the town landfill.
Excerpted from Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation Copyright 2013 Dan Fagin. Excerpted by permission of Bantam Books a division of Random House Inc. All rights reserved.
My late father was born in Toms River; he died young from a brain tumor despite his being a healthy nonsmoking teetotaler.
coast. 9. Dr. Gofman did studies on the increases of breast cancer due to nuclear radiation. 10.
Radiation is being in found in seaweed zooplankton and sea life in the oceans. Animal and plant mutations are being found everywhere.
Can you say Columbia Watershed? Enjoy your fruit. Doctors say it's good for you. 5 servings daily.
This is of course in addition to the many many other species dying across the globe these days-manatees on the coasts birds all over fish and crabs all over.
and is a long time coming in the corporate world-it coming to a head just slightly after the establishment of a highly secure seed vault in the northern oceans
Chinese officials have fished more than 16000 pig carcasses from the Huangpu River from which more than one in five Shanghai residents draw their drinking water.
It's important to note that none of the experts we found work in the Huangpu directly nor have done they their own testing of the Huangpu River.
and from their own work on other Chinese rivers.)It is possible that the drinking water in Shanghai is still fine they say.
However government agencies have not been transparent about how often they've tested the river and what exactly they mean
when they say they've returned the river to normal says Kristen Macdonald the China program director for Pacific Environment a non-governmental organization.
The Huangpu River system is large and continually flowing so it can clear impurities quickly Jun Shentu a staff member at Green Zhejiang a group that focuses on tributaries of the Huangpu says in an email.
Tap water in Shanghai is taken from near the center of the river at the bottom where the water quality is better Shentu says.
In addition officials may not actually know exactly to what level of quality to return the river
Although they offer daily updates on the Huangpu's water quality Chinese officials haven't explained why farmers have chosen recently against regulations to dump so many pigs into the river the Guardian reported March 22.
So it's definitely a case of there being a regulatory gap where it's not clear who is responsible for dealing with protecting rivers from this kind of dumping.
and they don't want to spend money to properly dispose of the pigs the farmers dump the pigs in the river.
(which is located on a river delta) has soft clay-heavy soil. So before lifting a single steel beam engineers drove 980 foundation piles into the ground as deep as 282 feet.
But what if at the same time we just ended up with skyscrapers growing the kinds of trees evolved for mountaintops and sea cliffs?
In 2009 US AIRWAYS flight 1549 made a crash landing in the Hudson river after geese knocked out both engines.
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FOR ARAYAN HITLER FJORD'S! SO HITLER YOUTHEN JOHN BOEHNERTOM FRIEDMAN JESSIE HOLDER! UGANDA BARAC OBAMA PICK fiat& facist.
AND THE VOLGA RIVER! GETS VLADIMIR PRISON! VLADIMIR PUTIN! I Cite 1935 too 1945! A GOLDEN REASON FOR Nuremberg!
THREATEN ANTHRAX OFGENERAL GULF OF TONKIN OFCOLIN POWELL AND JOHN KERRY CON'S! MOCK HORTON ADOLPHHITLER NASA BOEING REMOTESATELITE OR NORAD HARRP TOO NOMEON HARRPP CONTROLS MUNITION DRONESAPOCALYPSE NOW!
FOR ARAYAN HITLER FJORD'S! SO HITLER YOUTHEN JOHN BOEHNERTOM FRIEDMAN JESSIE HOLDER! UGANDA BARAC OBAMA PICK fiat& facist.
AND THE VOLGA RIVER! GETS VLADIMIR PRISON! VLADIMIR PUTIN! I Cite 1935 too 1945! A GOLDEN REASON FOR Nuremberg!
What about robots and how hard it is for them to walk see a puddle and jump over it.
This spurs competetive research on an international level and (infinitely more important) opens the floodgates on neurological disease treatments and artificial intelligence.
and the underlying land or ocean surface and the amount of water vapor in the air. Warm air (high pressure) over warm water is fairly stable
and the oceans and land stay the same temperature storms will become LESS violent. If the atmosphere and the oceans and land warm at about the same rate--as global warmists assert--there will be no difference in the violence or frequency of storms;
which incidentally is what the data actually shows. In once sentence Obama preys on the unsubstantiated fears of the uninformed to further promote his already proven failure of an agenda.
The CO2NOW Climate Sheet enumerates the chain of causes that are driving humanityã¢Â#Â#s largest environmental crises âÂ#Âglobal warming climate change and ocean acidification.
and then started dumping trash in the ocean. Hell the rain forest are disappearing as we speak so no plants
Imagine a giant explosion in the sky followed by a blast wave that would level buildings knock the Golden gate bridge into the sea and subject an area between San francisco and San jose to total destruction.
Krakatoa was a great mountain till it erupted with fire and a blast heard thousands of miles away that cast that Great Mountain into the sea.
The sea was full of Bodies from the Tsunamis more then 35000 of them the sea stayed red for weeks. 1884 was a year without a summer as the year 1816 was
For all that lived there it was WORMWOOD Rev 8: 11 the wood became full of worms and the rivers water no longer sweet and undrinkable.
To test his equipment he took some photos of the Trinity River with a point
A crimson stream which appeared to be blood leaking into a river tributary. The pilot whose name has not been released notified Texas environmental authorities who launched an investigation.
what to the bloody river discovery. Had the Dallas hobbyist not been taking pictures of the river
--which as Gooden pointed out is a public waterway--he never would have seen the illegal activity.
The idea of slaughterhouse waste going out in the drinking water that's not cool said Egan.
About two weeks after the bloody river discovery an animal rights group flew a microdrone above private property in South carolina aiming to film what they said was a live pigeon shoot.
or something but invasion of privacy when it comes to illegally dumping chemicals into a river/creek
a hobbyist inadvertently obtained photo's of a river being polluted and now some lawyer wants to make these hobbyist drones illegal.
and that polluted river is public. For some reason I am thinking that lawyer may represent some questionable characters
During the Eemian Stage sea level was about 8 meters higher than today and the water temperature of the North sea was c. 2°C higher than at present.
And that's how overgrown trees brushing high-voltage lines in Ohio could black out 50 million people along the East Coast in 2003.
and across freezing rivers moms being separated from their calves or not even allowed to fully give birth.
Those who live near the shore just have to move as simple as that. It's frustrating how simple change could be.
Lets see how high we can get the sea levels. Call Guinness when done! Depending on where you live the warm up can be quite beneficial.
How about the acidification of the oceans because of the absorption of CO2? Laurenra7 denies global warming thinks creationism should be taught as science
All the rest of the so-called supporting evidence--glacier mass balance satellite telemetry sea-level data CO2 saturation of the atmosphere and oceans arctic minimum sea ice extent etc.
if warming of the oceans release CO2 then we're in for even more atmospheric CO2. Currently the colder waters absorb CO2.
and of course if sea life is found underneath the icy surface we may be able to eat the fish found there.
Run out of clams we went to the ocean to find more clams. Present man trades in 0's and 1's and worthless paper we call dollars yen euro etc.
Look for his symbolic masterpiece at future West Coast bike races. TIME: 6 weekscost: $0 Thomas Hudson an engineer and bee keeper in Portland Oregon wanted to log his insects'comings
The GCF is intended also to help pay for resilience-related projects such as strengthening infrastructure to withstand global warming impacts like sea level rise--efforts that are termed adaptation.
Most Pacific Islanders says Ora are forced now to think about where to go as the sea level rises.
because its Taro Island location is only 6. 6 feet above sea level. Sea level rise is making Taro Island increasingly vulnerable to tsunamis
and storm surges. 5: 36 p m.:The next and final panel Voices From the Climate Frontlines is underway.
He says that his nation is already starting to drown because of sea level rise due to human-propelled climate change.
and preparation for climate change impacts like sea level rise and changing weather patterns. 4: 16 p m.:
and early warning systems for vulnerable nations to help them better plan for heavy weather and rising seas.
The U s. took over the project in 1904 and implemented some sanitation practices--including draining wetlands
and dumping oil into lakes puddles and streams to keep mosquitoes from breeding. Such practices would be frowned upon today but apparently these methods saved thousands of lives in the early 1900s.
and lakes penetrating the jungles and impounding rushing rivers in an effort to throw two great oceans together.
It is the greatest assault ever made upon nature; but the white man brushing aside all obstacles
The bigness of it all and its possibilities in changing the commerce of the seas the destiny of nations
The Canal Zone ten miles wide and forty-five miles long is composed of mountains of moderate height marshy swamps numerous small lakes jungles almost impenetrable in some places
and there is an almost constant stream of decaying vegetable and animal matter pouring into lakes
the cisterns puddles and lakes furnished convenient breeding places for mosquitos; the streets and sidewalks were in horrible condition
For more than three hundred years it was the favorite highway from ocean to ocean and many thousands perished en route from tropical disease.
Lakes were drained and filled and oil was used freely where draining was impracticable; a good sewer system was installed and connection required;
Now the real war against diseases was begun lakes and swamps that had never been drained since nature made them poured out their accumulated filth to the sea;
those that could not be drained were oiled; ditches were dug only after the lines of skilled engineers
or four times a month all lakes puddles sluggish streams and marshes so that mosquitoes could not breed.
and utilize the motor power of the ocean waves and the trade winds. All due honor to the engineers.
But when the world's vessels sail through Lake Bohio whose waters will be impregnated with millions of dollars worth of the rusting iron of The french failure it will be a glorious triumph of scientific sanitation and a great lesson to all nations and peoples down the centuries;
and if you get too close to the river you can sink knee-deep. Luckily when this happened to me Pomerantz was there to lend a hand.
Or Fall With Lake Meadthe bathtub ring can be seen for miles. The 120-foot-high band of rock bleached nearly white by mineral-rich water circles the shoreline of Lake Mead.
Water levels have dropped by almost 100 feet in the past decade and the ring has emerged as a stark reminder of the drought enveloping the American Southwest.
Right now 600 feet beneath the lake s glassy blue surface a massive custom-built tunnel-boring machine lmost as long as two football fields and heavier than four 747s s
-and-steel riser installed in the bottom of the lake like a drain. Two intake pipes already carry water from Lake Mead to Las vegas about 25 miles to the west.
Known as the Third Straw Intake No. 3 will reach 200 feet deeper into the lake nd keep water flowing for
as long as there s water to pump. Lake Mead is more than half empty. If the water drops another 50 feet the first intake pipe will start sucking air.
It basically drought-proofs our existing intakes says Erika Moonin the project s manager and a 17-year veteran of the Southern Nevada Water Authority.
since recordkeeping for the Colorado river began in 1906 and Lake Mead is now more than half empty.
On the day of my visit in early February the water s surface elevation was 1108 feet above sea level (the Third Straw will meet the lake bed at 860 feet.
If the water drops another 50 feet the first intake pipe will start sucking air.
Between 2004 and 2013 the average flow of water from the Glen Canyon Dam just upstream from the Lower Colorado river Basin was 8. 88 million acre-feet.
This year for the first time in decades 1 percent of the annual flow was released to nourish the river s long-dried delta.
because we re below lake level Moonin says. The birdcage touches down near a half dozen construction workers setting rebar and I walk past them to peer into the connector tunnel.
The machine has eaten now more than halfway from the shoreline to its destination: the soft eye in the side of the riser set into the lake bed.
But it s impossible to forget that this is also an act of desperation a last-gasp attempt to keep water flowing from a river that at many spots has already become more a trickle than a torrent.
From its headwaters in the Rockies the Colorado river meanders 1400 miles through five states and into Mexico nourishing 40 million people and irrigating 5. 5 million acres of farmland along the way.
Despite decades of subsequent development the water rights first established by the Colorado river Compact in 1922 remain essentially unchanged today.
The agreement allocates 15 million acre-feet each year (picture an acre of land covered with a foot-high layer of water) among the seven Colorado river Basin states:
currently the river can t come close to meeting demand. Climate will exacerbate the problem. Rainfall in the Colorado Basin could decrease 15 percent in the next 50 years.
The Colorado river is grossly overallocated says Peter Gleick a water expert with the Pacific Institute in Oakland California. ve given away more water than nature provides.
The 16.5-million figure was based on just two decades of Colorado river flow. Over the century spanning from 1906 to 2005 the average freshwater in-put to the system was actually only 15 million acre-feet.
The federal Bureau of Reclamation has predicted that the water level at Lake Mead could fall below 1075 feet of elevation as soon as January 2016 prompting automatic reductions in the states allocations.
If climate change continues to dry out the region Barnett found in a 2009 study Colorado river water deliveries could fall short 60 to 90 percent of the time by midcentury.
and farmers grow crops (such as rice) more appropriate to a wetland environment. Many residents water bills will remain disconnected from their actual usage eliminating any financial incentive to conserve until a new state law goes into effect in 2025.
Almost every drop of water that goes into a drain gets back into Lake Mead.
and then spit out down a natural wash and back into Lake Mead. Once it rejoins reservoir water it can flow back into the intake pipes to be treated
Almost half the water Las vegas consumes now returns to the lake. The rock beneath the lake is porous.
Groundwater seeps in from the sides and lake water threatens to flood the chamber from above.
Magee escorts me out past spiky cacti and Seuss-like succulents. Ten years ago I don t think anyone would have thought ever you d find desert landscaping around a large hotel-casino development he says.
Las vegas began ticketing errant water users in 2002 the driest year in recorded history on the Colorado river.
We track one rivulet to a single-story home made of pink stucco. There s a date palm in the front yard
I pay about three times that much for the same Colorado river water in Los angeles. Las vegas is in the middle of the desert in the middle of a drought in the midst of a population boom driven by retirees who want to replicate their East Coast gardens in the Mojave.
The bedrock beneath the lake is porous; groundwater seeps in from the sides and lake water threatens to flood the chamber from above.
Inside the connector tunnel sandbags separate a foot-and-a-half-deep river of water from the active construction zone;
each minute pumps push 1450 gallons to the surface. The water problems in the main intake tunnel are far worse:
Further north citizens have engaged in a heated debate over an estimated $15 billion project to dig two tunnels under the Sacramento an Joaquin Delta plan that would improve delivery of river water fed by Sierra nevada snowpack
but the same week I was in Las vegas Facebook friends posted triumphant selfies of themselves floating through two feet of fresh powder at Colorado ski resorts By April it was clear big parts of the Colorado river watershed
How much of that meltwater will end up in Lake Mead depends on a complicated calculation of when and how fast it melts.
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