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re: Louisiana Is Running Dangerously Short Of Groundwater
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:42 am to Klark Kent
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:42 am to Klark Kent
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npr article ehh?
Oh, do we need to wait for OAN's take on this?
NPR is reporting, they didn't invent the story.
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Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:43 am to LoneStar23
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sixth-generation farmer Christian Richard
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:45 am to wadewilson
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Oh, do we need to wait for OAN's take on this?
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:46 am to fr33manator
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And puts it...back in the ground?
Somewhat, but it's not quite that simple. Aquifers have aquifer recharge zones, which usually are not located directly above the aquifer. Say for examle, the aquifer recharge zone for Baton Rouge's water supply is located in Southern Mississippi. The map below shows areas where a lot of the rice fields and major industrial users are located in low recharge zones. So they're sucking a lot of water out and not putting any back in to the usable system. It also accelerates salt water intrusion in to the aquifer systems.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:47 am to LoneStar23
This really is a thing. How soon water shortages will happen is up for debate. But our kids could be paying for water what we currently pay for gas:
Take a minute to read and be informed.
Take a minute to read and be informed.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:48 am to LoneStar23
Wish they would come take some out of my fricking backyard
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:48 am to LoneStar23
No reason in 2021, we don’t have methods to use sea water as drinking water.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:49 am to LoneStar23
Lemme get this straight, sixth-generation Christian Richard is the bad guy because he grows rice 
. Louisiana has more water than we know what to do with.
. Louisiana has more water than we know what to do with.Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:49 am to Bourre
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This is nothing but more fear porn from the media
The article may be a little sensationalized, but be assured that it is an pretty big issue.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:50 am to WaydownSouth
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No reason in 2021, we don’t have methods to use sea water as drinking water.
I agree with this. And we have the technology to do that. However our infrastructure is not setup that way.
This post was edited on 3/19/21 at 7:51 am
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:50 am to LoneStar23
On a planet that is 71% water, I hardly think there is cause of concern to "run short" of it.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:50 am to RealityTiger
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On a planet that is 71% water, I hardly think there is cause of concern to "run short" of it.
Yea but you can't drink salt water.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:51 am to WaydownSouth
we are too busy paying for gender studies in pakistan
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:53 am to nes2010
The problem is that no one is talking about the problem. Yes we may be years out before we have a "problem". But if we start addressing it now it would be way cheaper until waiting until we are in crisis mode to act.
Water is taken for granite. But we cannot live without clean drinking water. Not to mention how this will impact society economically.
Water is taken for granite. But we cannot live without clean drinking water. Not to mention how this will impact society economically.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:54 am to fr33manator
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And puts it...back in the ground?
Most of it probably runs off.
The article mentions a 120 ft well. I'm no geologist/hydrologist, but isn't that very shallow for a well?
I still think the chemical plants pumping millions of gallons per day from deep aquifers is a bigger deal than a farmer flooding his rice fields.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:54 am to WaydownSouth
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No reason in 2021, we don’t have methods to use sea water as drinking water.
I mean, you can suck water out of the gulf and separate the salt, but what do you do about the ecosystems you've destroyed in that process.
Seems like the answer is more wastewater treatment.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:54 am to Daygo85
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Water is taken for granite.
Rock solid idiom there.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:55 am to Daygo85
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no one is talking about the problem.
start a conversation
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Water is taken for granite
that's some hard water
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:55 am to Daygo85
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This really is a thing. How soon water shortages will happen is up for debate. But our kids could be paying for water what we currently pay for gas:
Well you are right about at least one thing. If something is "free" today, someone (governments and billionaires) will try to figure out a way to make you pay for it tomorrow.
It's already happening in third world nations and is the plot in dozens of movies. And speaking of agricultural overuse of water supplies, I wonder how this could tie in to Bill Gates buying up all this agricultural land in Louisiana.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 7:56 am to fr33manator
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Rock solid idiom there.
Sorry, should it be "granted".
This post was edited on 3/19/21 at 7:56 am
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