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Tuesday, April 15, 2008

At Least 36 U.S. States Face Water Shortage

At least 36 states are expected to face water shortages within the next five years, according to U.S. government estimates. Available freshwater supplies are dwindling across the country due to rising temperatures and droughts, while increasing sprawl, population and inefficient resource usage are leading to rising demand.

“Is it a crisis? If we don’t do some decent water planning, it could be,” said Jack Hoffbuhr, executive director of the American Water Works Association. Rising temperatures due to global warming have increased evaporation rates across the country and reduced the availability of important water sources. One of these is the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which supplies a significant portion of California’s water. Across the West, similar trends are expected to reduce flows of the Colorado River, which supplies water for seven states.

Meanwhile, rising sea levels are expected to cause saltwater to infiltrate freshwater aquifers in coastal states, rendering that water unusable.

California uses about 23 trillion gallons of fresh water per year. The United States as a whole uses more than 148 trillion gallons for all purposes, including agriculture, manufacturing and other uses.

Other threatened regions include the Midwest, where the Great Lakes are shrinking, and upstate New York, where reservoir levels have fallen to record lows. Georgia’s crisis has already arrived, and Florida’s is expected to hit soon.

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Hmmm, it’s been cooler every year since 1998.  Also the story correctly only points out that we had been in a warming trend. 

And the sea levels haven’t risen a bit with the warming trend since the little ice age.

And it was warmer in Roman times and the sea levels weren’t drastically higher.

But yeah, there’s more people now days, so you got something right.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on April 15, 2008 at 03:47 pm
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Just what the dems need, another imagined crisis. 

Let’s have it Rbb, more taxes, less freedom, and we’ll all be saved by our all knowing, all wise, elected democrats. 

You Rbb and others like you are all that is wrong with America.

HG on April 15, 2008 at 04:49 pm

Just what the dems need, another imagined crisis. 

God willing, your kind will be out of power for a long long time.


“If a conservative is still a republican after the last 13 years, he is blind to the fact that his party of choice has failed him utterly.” – Realitybasedbob

realitybasedbob on April 15, 2008 at 05:00 pm
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God willing, your kind will be out of power for a long long time.

You mean the kind that love freedom, personal responsibility and don’t care for liars who feed off of hype and fear over cooked up scientific nonsense?  Don’t worry yourself, I happen to know God and He ain’t willing.  Besides that, too many Americans have tasted freedom and you and your ilk ain’t gonna walk away with it.

HG on April 15, 2008 at 05:10 pm
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Rising temperatures due to global warming have increased evaporation rates across the country and reduced the availability of important water sources.

Let the BS begin.

One of these is the Sierra Nevada snowpack, which supplies a significant portion of California’s water.

I happen to be extremely familiar with this area and I went snow-boarding on 5-7 feet 10 days ago!  I happen to know for a fact that this years snowpack and precipitation is extraodinary for the Sierras.  Our resiviors are said to be at maximum capacity by the end of this week. 

Like I said, imagined crisis’ feeds right into the left’s agenda.

HG on April 15, 2008 at 05:31 pm
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Rbb, I’ll grant you this.  Either you are one of the more crafty liberals, or you are the most useful idiot the left has on this site.

HG on April 15, 2008 at 06:03 pm
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Just got an email, guess what business is still operating at 7,000’ elevation in mid-April?

Those of you who can’t see a snake-in-the-grass like the liberal author of this article are just being played.  Look, I don’t know which of you really believe in this AGW tripe and which of you are craftily trying to advance your liberal agenda of less freedom and more socialism, but to the prior WAKE UP!  You’re being duped!

HG on April 15, 2008 at 08:17 pm

The “drought” in the Southeastern United States is due to a dearth in hurricanes in the last couple of years:

We typically get 12” of our annual 48” of rain from tropical storms.  36” of rain:  major drought, don’t you think!?

The main source of the water shortage is we are consuming too much of it, so that any time you get a relative shortfall, it exposes the problems with over consumption by humans.  This is as true in the Western United States as it is in urbanized regions of the Southeast.

And this is utter horseshit:

Available freshwater supplies are dwindling across the country due to rising temperatures and droughts,

Well that’s what Algore said would happen.

Reality time for reality grounded people:

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Blot out the propaganda, the rest makes sense:

while increasing sprawl, population and inefficient resource usage are leading to rising demand.

Carrick on April 15, 2008 at 08:19 pm

Darn that George Bush, He can’t control the weather.

Vote for Obama, he will stand on a far hill and command the storm.

Just like Jesus.


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From , “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen”
Old tigers, sensing the end,
they’re at their most fierce. 
And they go down fighting.

Gene on April 16, 2008 at 05:36 am

Georgia’s crisis has already arrived, and Florida’s is expected to hit soon.

Actually, since Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue’s much scoffed at public prayer vigil for rain last November 13th, there has not been a week in which the State of Georgia didn’t get any rain.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on April 16, 2008 at 06:29 am

Ya know, I betcha California could solve its water problems once and for all if farmers and other holders of old water rights were allowed to sell an acre-foot or so to the highest bidder, and weren’t required to use all of their allotment or lose it.

(once again, the problem is ...government)

Bike Bubba on April 16, 2008 at 08:05 am

Even in California, nature has a way of fixing problems on its own.

According to the first geological forecast of its kind, the chance of a magnitude 6.7 or larger tremor striking before 2038 is more than 99 per cent…

One of the areas of most concern is the southern section of the San Andreas Fault in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles, which is described as being “10 months pregnant”.


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on April 16, 2008 at 08:21 am
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