re: Trapped water dilemma. Is this the reason it doesn't rain anymore.

I have a buddy who is a prepper...he has been cutting empty plastic water bottles to allow the last few drops out for about 30 years that I know of. I guess if mankind lasts long enough it may make a difference. Even a plastic water bottle will eventually break down in a landfill though...it might take thousands of years, I don't know, but it will eventually break down and that water will escape. I suspect the idiocy of drinking water from a municipal source that is bottled in a plastic bottle and shipped lord knows how far away instead of simply drinking it straight from the municipal water source is far more dangerous than the few drops left in said bottle. I could be wrong. How we have arrived at such a place when worldwide man has the safest drinking water more readily available than at any time in our history is beyond me but water in plastic bottles is certainly a thing....

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While true, did these people admit new fresh water is being made every minute due to the evaporation of salt water leaving behind the salt, entering the jet stream and falling as rain?

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This dumb motherfricker thinks there is a fixed finite amount of water on the planet and that plastic is taking it out of the system forever.

Bro the earth is 70% water. This has little to no effect on our water supply

But I do make it a point to empty milk, juice, wine etc down the drain before I throw it away. Primarily so the trash isn't heavy AF when I take it out

What’s the water volume of 10 inches of rain across Louisiana?

If we don’t start taking action now, who will save our 100x great grand children’s’ water supply in 3045??

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I'm talking about drinking water here.

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Did you skip 5th grade? Ocean water evaporates and then comes back as rain that fills lakes, rives, ponds, etc

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Did you skip 5th grade? Ocean water evaporates and then comes back as rain that fills lakes, rives, ponds, etc

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This is a lie. If salt water turned into rain, coastal areas would have more rain than continental areas and that’s impossible because beaches have sand and it’s impossible to have sand in places that rain. Look at the Saharan desert

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and that’s impossible because beaches have sand and it’s impossible to have sand in places that rain. Look at the Saharan desert

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Deserts are formed due to the rain shadow effect of mountains not because they have sandy soil.

I just poured my water bottle out in the front yard for you

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I don't have the data handy but I'm pretty sure we are about 10 inches short each of the last several years.

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just using New Orleans (since data is readily available), they've only been 10" short of average once in the last 15 years



annual average over last 30 years is 62.45




other than last year, they haven't been more than 5" below average in a decade.