re: Louisiana Is Running Dangerously Short Of Groundwater

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So now I gotta dig 3 ft to find a random puddle, not 2?

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You never studied.

I guess they forgot the part where Mr Richard also uses surface water to flood his fields as do a large percentage of farms in LA and that he has a tailwater recovery reservoir set up on a couple of his farms to conserve water

Need to drink Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi’s milkshakes.

JBE just told the news that he hopes to see windmills in the Gulf. Complete idiot.

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A rapidly shrinking rice industry along with an entire population slowly moving west somehow causes aquifer's to shrink???

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Naw, I've always been told it was from people leaving they faucet running while brushing the teeth.

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I guess they forgot the part where Mr Richard also uses surface water to flood his fields as do a large percentage of farms in LA and that he has a tailwater recovery reservoir set up on a couple of his farms to conserve water

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That ruins their story. They don't want to point out all of the good conservation measures that farmers like Christian are already taking to limit their impacts on the environment.

Farmers are the bad guy and the easy one to blame, so why tell the truth when lying is so much easier? Just lay the blame on the GMO-using, water-sucking, crawfish-gouger.

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they can’t tax and charge people again.

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This is the main issue here.
Once they figure out how to tax it, the problem will be improved as long as taxes are paid.

frick this BS. It’s louisiana. The only thing we have more than enough of is freaking water. Above ground, below ground, and half the time in our homes.

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Man the sarcasm and genuine lack of concern in this thread is worrying. I've sat in on a few groundwater committee meetings thinking I was going to go in and raise hell and it ended up being some of the sharpest minds from LSU geology, Water Chemistry and Ecology professors. I was blown away and the information they have (and publicy present!) is fricking terrifying. Baton Rouge water company had already purchased waterfront property on the Amite and Comite rivers to set up filtration and pumping stations for when we dry up/start pumping salt from the sand hills aquifer. I know for some reason logic seems to get downvoted but it is a VERY real possibility that our drinking water will be from the rivers sometime within the next 20-30 years. Everyone is to blame, residents that don't fix leaks, ExxonMobil and Georgia Pacific using aquifer water instead of river water, farmers using well water instead of bayou water....Everyone is laughing now but this issue is worldwide. Anyone interested should check out "When The Rivers Run Dry" Gives accounts from around the globe about ongoing and future water crises'

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A lot of folks n here don’t and won’t understand science or logic.

Wells have to be drilled deeper because th water is further down due to aquifers being depleted.

Most here don’t know the difference between an aquifer,a bayou,a creek or a mud puddle.

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I know of chemical plants along the Mississippi River that pump thousands of Gal / min of ground water for cooling. 72 deg F ground water provides better cooling in summer than 90 deg F River water.

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This is the truth. I have personally had wells installed that pump thousands of GPM of ground water once through heat exchangers during summer months because 72 F ground water saves thousand of dollars in electricity required to run huge refrigeration compressors (thousands of horsepower machines). The cooler ground water at 72 F significantly reduces compressor discharge pressure versus 90 F river water. The ground water is pumped once through then mixed with the river water returned to the Ms River. Boiler feed water (at least one plant) comes from the river and is pre-treated.