And a list of  facts about Earth’s dwindling water resources

No swimming, pas de baignade.. Photo Peripitus

Where’s all the water gone ?

There’s no mystery to it.  Don’t worry, it’ll rain back, and more and more abundantly and rapidly, and water will evaporate and reappear as rain and floods more and more abundantly and rapidly.  Be it just to wash top-soil away..

After more than 10,000 years of agriculture, deforestation, war against useful weeds, monoculture, now water cycles more and more rapidly, by evaporation, from a soil that is more and more deprived of trees and plants normally filled with water, tons of water.

Water cycles more and more rapidly from a soil which is more and more deprived of that protective soft shield of plants and trees which usually, normally, keeps tons of water within the topsoil under their protective shadow.

Consequently, more and more water is more and more rapidly evaporated. Then rained back down.  And up she goes again.  Pumped back by the sun’s action.  And down again.  And up again.  In a shorter and shorter cycle, without being kept in place for a reasonable length of time by a sufficient population of plants and trees.  And by the topsoil itself.  Which is less and less protected by a sufficient cover of plants and the shadow they should normally provide, as already said ..

Today, that depriving cycle is accelerated.

April 2015 :

Rain produce more and more mudslides, landslides, devastating floods : 

 Published on Sep 11, 2014 by RT — Indian Air Force helicopters continue rescue efforts to evacuate people stranded in flooded areas in Indian Kashmir.  The flooding began earlier this month, causing landslides. More than a million people have been affected, with thousands losing their homes to the rising water.

There’s more and more homeless water which is more and more rapidly captured by the evaporation-rain-evaporation cycle.

More than 10,000 years of a growing practice of agriculture.  Recently crowned by a delirious industrial revolution and raging monocultures. By unsustainable “economic” growth.  Add the more recent practice of fracking which poisons natural water reserves.  The whole thing is taking a devastating “toll” ..

What’s left is a diminishing drying top-soil that keeps turning to mud when water mix its short transient rush of rain with it.

A diminishing drying top soil moving away.  Or blown away as dust.  Moved away by the winds.  Flushed away by floods.  To the seas.

Eventually, what’s left are remaining patches of sterile or pauperized top-soil.  Sand.  Stones of all size, tints, shades.  Dry soil.  Dry powderlike soil.  Mostly.  An ant’s paradise.  Populated with stones.

Explain that to a kindergarten kid, he will get it immediately.

An aerial view shows a landslide that swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 20, 2014. (Reuters / Kyodo)

Ants, Fire, and the Lawnmower – poem. Click.

Meanwhile, millions of unconsciously suicidal zombies keep contributing at exacerbating that absurd accelerated cycling movement of water deprivation, meticulously lawnmowing their yard, year-long, or summer-long, destroying weeds, adding their stupid effort at building dryness, at driving water out of plants and top-soil, chasing it away, —  and begging for it.

They don’t seem to get it.  Have you noticed?  Strange.

We’re already are under Diluvium, heading for some kind of Stone Age, through drought.  Under an endless cycle of surabundant water which is more and more escaping our reach and thirst..

Yes, strange.  Strange tragedy ..

Add to that the two prongs of the giant plier exponentially growing at the same moment  :  population and robotisation.   In the System under the yoke of which we “live,”  robotisation, or robotics, makes the growing human population less and less relevant ( and the robots as well at the end .. !)

Cul-de sac, dead-end.

“The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race” ( Theodor “Ted” Kaczynski: Manifesto, 1995).

Loup

Local residents wait for rescue operation atop of collapsed houses as rescue workers stand by next to them, after a massive landslide swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 20, 2014. (Reuters / Kyodo)

The following is a list of 25 hard facts about the Earth’s dwindling water resources.

( Taken from an article by Michael Snyder, June 18th, 2014, published by  The Economic Collapse Blog  :  25 Shocking Facts About The Earth’s Dwindling Water Resources )

#1 Right now, 1.6 billion people live in areas of the world that are facing “absolute water scarcity“.

#2 Global water use has quadrupled over the past 100 years and continues to rise rapidly.

#3 One recent study found that a third of all global corn crops are facing “water stress“.

#4 A child dies from a water-related disease every 15 seconds.

#5 By 2025, two-thirds of the population of Earth will “be living under water stressed conditions“.

#6 Due to a lack of water, Chinese food imports now require more land than the entire state of California.

#7 At this point, the amount of water that China imports is already greater than the amount of oil that the United States imports.

#8 Approximately 80 percent of the major rivers in China have become so polluted that they no longer support any aquatic life at all.

#9 The Great Lakes hold about 21 percent of the total supply of fresh water in the entire world, but Barack Obama is allowing water from those lakes “to be drained, bottled and shipped to China” at a frightening pace.

#10 It is being projected that India will essentially “run out of water” by the year 2050.

#11 It has been estimated that 75 percent of all surface water in India has been heavily contaminated by human or agricultural waste.

#12 In the Middle East, the flow of water in the Jordan River is down to only 2 percent of its historic rate.

#13 Due to a lack of water, Saudi Arabia has essentially given up on trying to grow wheat and will be 100 percent dependent on wheat imports by the year 2016.

#14 Of the 60 million people added to the major cities of the world every year, the vast majority of them live in deeply impoverished areas that have no sanitation facilities whatsoever.

#15 Nearly the entire southwestern United States is experiencing drought conditions as you read this article.  It has been this way for most of the past several years.

#16 Thanks in part to the seemingly endless drought, the price index for meat, poultry, fish, and eggs in the U.S. just hit a new all-time high.

#17 As underground aquifers are relentlessly drained in California, some areas of the San Joaquin Valley are sinking by 11 inches a year.

#18 It is being projected that Lake Mead has a 50 percent chance of running dry by the year 2025.

#19 Most Americans don’t realize this, but the once mighty Colorado River has become so depleted that it no longer runs all the way to the ocean.

#20 According to the U.S. Geological Survey, “a volume equivalent to two-thirds of the water in Lake Erie” has been permanently drained from the Ogallala Aquifer since 1940, and it is currently being drained at a rate of approximately 800 gallons per minute.

#21 Once upon a time, the Ogallala Aquifer had an average depth of approximately 240 feet, but today the average depth is just 80 feet. In some areas of Texas, the water is already completely gone.

#22 Approximately 40 percent of all rivers and approximately 46 percent of all lakes in the United States have become so polluted that they are are no longer fit for human use.

#23 Because of the high cost and the inefficient use of energy, desalination is not considered to be a widely feasible solution to our water problems at this time…

The largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere is currently under construction in Carlsbad in San Diego County at great expense. The price tag: $1 billion.

Right now, San Diego is almost totally dependent on imported water from Sierra snowmelt and the Colorado River. When the desalination plant comes online in 2016, it will produce 50 million gallons per day, enough to offset just 7 percent of the county’s water usage. That’s a huge bill for not very much additional water.

#24 We have filled the North Pacific Ocean with 100 million tons of plastic, and this is starting to have a very serious affect on the marine food chain.  Ultimately, this could mean a lot less food available from the Pacific Ocean for humans.

#25 One very shocking U.S. government report concluded that the global demand for water will exceed the global supply of water by 40 percent by the year 2030.

Sadly, most Americans are not going to take this report seriously because they can still turn on their taps and get as much fresh water as they want.

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