The Water Crisis (soon to be known as WWIV)

[washing machine]

Anyone have some good reading recs on the water crisis?

[E.H. Ruddock]

Anyone have some good reading recs on the water crisis?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/27/us/houst ... index.html

[washing machine]

hardy har

[washing machine]

The streets did what they were supposed to do and helped the water flow towards the ship channel. Of course nationally the story is the temporary street flooding.

Pressure came back up pretty quickly yesterday, and now we patiently await the results of testing so we can stop boiling water. I believe the boil notice was more of a precaution than anything.

Anyway, anyone have any book recs on the water apocalypse?

[BurtReynolds]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/20 ... roundwater

Outside of Phoenix, in the scorching Arizona desert, sits a farm that Saudi Arabia's largest dairy uses to make hay for cows back home.

That dairy company, named Almarai, bought the farm last year and has planted thousands of acres of groundwater-guzzling alfalfa to make that hay. Saudi Arabia can't grow its own hay anymore because those crops drained its own ancient aquifer.

Reporter Nathan Halverson tells NPR's Renee Montagne that Almarai bought about 15 square miles in the Arizona desert.

"They got about 15 water wells when they purchased the property. Now, each one of those wells can pump about 1.5 billion gallons of water. It's an incredible amount of water they're going to be drawing up from that aquifer underground," Halverson says.

[Bi_3]

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/16/wh ... -skirmish/

[Bi_3]

This is getting close:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... er-45-days

[BurtReynolds]

[VinylGuy]

you guys should watch that South Park special called The Streaming Wars

[Peeps]

didnt the gov receive a few hundred million to address such issues in the last few years?

[simple schoolboy]

didnt the gov receive a few hundred million to address such issues in the last few years?

We redefined infrastructure to include stuff such as childcare, which generally does not require environmental review. Shovel ready jobs do not exist and would need substantial state and federal legislation to bring into being. The only cool part of FDR's legacy, building shit at scale, is the thing we cannot re-create.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[simple schoolboy]

didnt the gov receive a few hundred million to address such issues in the last few years?

We redefined infrastructure to include stuff such as childcare, which generally does not require environmental review. Shovel ready jobs do not exist and would need substantial state and federal legislation to bring into being. The only cool part of FDR's legacy, building shit at scale, is the thing we cannot re-create.

If only there was a way to subsidize computer engineering education.

Computer Engineering has very little to do with why we can't build shit unless it relates to software for discovery for environmental lawsuits.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[simple schoolboy]

Ehhh…lots of stuff happening in systems, storage, precision ag, etc. All drives resource efficiency, all requires code.

Code can't melt steel beams

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[simple schoolboy]

Take it to the steel beams thread

I was trying to be polite. Designing and building bridges is trivially easy from a comp sci standpoint. Getting the landed hippie gentry lawsuits resolved so you can actually pour concrete is the hard part.

[tragabigzanda]

FUCK ICE

[simple schoolboy]

California is up for having broken historic snowpack levels, but since we decided to not increase storage since the 1970s, it doesn't provide any buffer for future dry years. I guess we'll just enjoy the white water rafting while it lasts.

[Bammer]

I would be very curious to see a chart/map that compares birth rates to income and/or education levels, in addition to geography.

Point being, who exactly is overpopulating the earth to the point where water (and housing and everything else) is so scarce. If such patterns of correlation exist.