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re: Louisiana Is Running Dangerously Short Of Groundwater
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:12 am to fr33manator
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:12 am to fr33manator
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And puts it...back in the ground?
If only it were that simple.
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Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:13 am to LoneStar23
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expected effects
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:13 am to tonydtigr
I spent 15 years in construction. One of the more interesting things I did was pour a loading dock where we were placing concrete in the lower footing and the mix was displacing the ground water that we couldn’t pump out fast enough.
Most places south of I12 the water table sits at about 6’. Over half of the top ten places for rainfall amounts are in Louisiana. There is not a ground water problem.
This article is nonsense.
Most places south of I12 the water table sits at about 6’. Over half of the top ten places for rainfall amounts are in Louisiana. There is not a ground water problem.
This article is nonsense.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:14 am to Daygo85
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Yes! I agree. But everyone is talking about electric cars. When did you last read an article on the lack of fresh ground water in America?
Well, 20 years ago, electric cars were still a novel idea that couldn't work. The government started mandating changes to the auto industry and flooding the private industry with "green loans" to develop new battery technology. New laws were passed and tons of money were dumped into this.
As far as the groundwater shortage in America? They were fining people in Texas for washing their cars and watering their yards back in the 1980's due to lack of groundwater. Texas, and many western states that have very large cities have consumed too much water from very limited aquifers for many years, so its not "new" at all, in that regard.
What is new is that they are now moving the goalposts to Louisiana who is blessed with so much water and healthy aquifers.
NPR is a very left wing source and they love their fear porn "news".
Maybe industrial regulation is needed, but don't start charging the citizens gasoline prices for water. That is yet another overreach by the powers that be just because they can get away with it and make huge profits.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:17 am to LoneStar23
AAAND here comes the government and special interest to get their piece of the pie. How dare someone have something for free. I mean there are definitely people that need to get some cash for studies, fees, licenses, and taxes to solve this extreme problem. Maybe flint Michigan can show us how its done.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:17 am to tonydtigr
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NPR is a very left wing source and they love their fear porn "news".
Maybe industrial regulation is needed, but don't start charging the citizens gasoline prices for water. That is yet another overreach by the powers that be just because they can get away with it and make huge profits.
NPR is trying to help the government charge outrageous prices for water? Interesting.
This post was edited on 3/19/21 at 8:17 am
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:17 am to wadewilson
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NPR is reporting, they didn't invent the story
They report bs.
No different when they tried a gotcha at Trump. Trump said you can use a scarf or anything to try to use as a mask.
They tested one type of wool scarf, the most breathable kind and stated, scarfs perform poorly. That's not reporting, it's bullshite.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:19 am to tonydtigr
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They were fining people in Texas for washing their cars and watering their yards back in the 1980's due to lack of groundwater. Texas, and many western states that have very large cities have consumed too much water from very limited aquifers for many years, so its not "new" at all, in that regard.
We had water bans every summer in Atlanta. Certain times of the day when you can water plants or wash your car.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:20 am to Daygo85
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But our kids could be paying for water what we currently pay for gas:
Don’t worry, rising sea levels are gonna kill them. Or maybe ozone depletion. Or the heat. Or the nuclear winter.
Same shite fear mongering from libtard media.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:21 am to wadewilson
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NPR is trying to help the government charge outrageous prices for water? Interesting.
Do a little research on who NPR actually is and how many bills are passed by congress with NPR funding arbitrarily hidden on page 350.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:21 am to elprez00
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Most places south of I12 the water table sits at about 6’. Over half of the top ten places for rainfall amounts are in Louisiana. There is not a ground water problem
Water table =/= aquifer. The water table is part of the aquifer, but the shallow water table you encounter when digging your footers is hardly a useful as a source of fresh water for a population more than a family.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:23 am to BluegrassBelle
quote:You're leaving out a major chunk of the process and jumping to conclusions. There is a lot of the potable water we consume that comes from sources that you wouldn't just walk up to take a drink. But it's processed and made drinkable (potable water). I happen to work in a plant in which the potable water comes from the Mississippi River and is filtered.
This whole thread seems to indicate a lot of people don’t understand the difference between water that can be consumed and water that can’t. And what it takes to make water that can’t be rawly consumed, consumable. That’s kind of sad.
And let's take it a step further than that. Water can be be man made fairly easily. And then that water could be filtered and made drinkable. Of all the resources that we consume on this planet, water should be dead last on the list of things to be concerned about.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:24 am to LoneStar23
"In part, that's because a centuries-old law gives landowners "ultimate dominion" over the groundwater beneath their property."
This is all a control issue. They started this nonsense in WP about a decade ago. You essentially needed a permit to shoot a well on your own property. It all went back to their desire to build a reservoir. I wasn't opposed to the reservoir aside from them using eminent domain to take people's property.
This is all a control issue. They started this nonsense in WP about a decade ago. You essentially needed a permit to shoot a well on your own property. It all went back to their desire to build a reservoir. I wasn't opposed to the reservoir aside from them using eminent domain to take people's property.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:25 am to fr33manator
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Aren't a lot of plants located by the river so that they can use river water for their non-potable needs?
They should but use other sources instead because it’s better quality and they don’t have to treat it first.
Most south of Baton Rouge do use Mississippi River water and for industry it’s not treated or minimally.
Most just below BR and above-Exxon specifically, draw from the aquifers north of Baton Rouge that supply the water for the region probably 3/4 million people and they take huge amounts. The drain is causing saltwater intrusion into the aquifers and most certainly will affect the water supply probably within my lifetime but certainly within my children’s.
It’s really an easy fix-for industrial sites located on the river especially, to draw non potable water from the river. There is no excuse but they fight like hell to avoid the transition.
People can laugh all they want but water is a commodity that is fought over all around the world and the fight in Louisiana is going to continue. Texas wants to build a pipeline from the Mississippi River into the state as well as buy water from surface lakes.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:26 am to Ace Midnight
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climate-fueled heat and drought
Yeah - the alarmists always jump to the claim that as the earth warms there will be more drought. A warmer Earth means more heat input to evaporating water, so rainfall will increase with temperature.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:26 am to wadewilson
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NPR is trying to help the government charge outrageous prices for water? Interesting.
Have you ever listened to NPR? Or looked up the credentials of their people?
It's a bunch of hyper-pendantic monotone-speaking over-educated east coast city folks performing a 24-hour screed about how business and industrious behavior are ruining the world, one discrete case at a time, interspersed with occasional music by norwegian lesbian spiders.
They would love nothing more than to see Bernie Sanders take office and tax the living snot out of everything in order to fund more NPR, Amtrak, and pakistani gender studies.
I mean seriously, even most liberals take potshots at NPR. Have you ever seen Parks And Rec's spoof on NPR???
LINK
This post was edited on 3/19/21 at 8:29 am
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:27 am to tigerinthebueche
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Same shite fear mongering from libtard media.
Stating what could happen due to science is not fear mongering. I think it is what is called a hypothesis.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:27 am to JackaReaux
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Something tells me you don’t understand hydrology. This is not a political issue.
JBE sings:
Don't know much about history,
Don't know much hydrology.
Don't know much about a science book,
Don't know much about the French I took.
(But I do know)
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me, too
What a wonderful, wonderful world this would be.
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:29 am to fr33manator
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quote:
Water is taken for granite.
Rock solid idiom there.
Very well done
Posted on 3/19/21 at 8:29 am to MorbidTheClown
We NEED to start drinking more PBR...it suddenly has become the right thing to do
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