Statistics: Posted by Johhny Electriglide — Sat Jul 11, 2015 11:39 am
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"We’re using groundwater at a terrifying rate, and it’s not just California
By Grist staff on 17 Jun 2015 3 comments
Earth is running out of water. But, like, really.
The Washington Post has the story:
The world’s largest underground aquifers – a source of fresh water for hundreds of millions of people — are being depleted at alarming rates, according to new NASA satellite data that provides the most detailed picture yet of vital water reserves hidden under the Earth’s surface.
Twenty-one of the world’s 37 largest aquifers — in locations from India and China to the United States and France — have passed their sustainability tipping points, meaning more water was removed than replaced during the decade-long study period, researchers announced Tuesday. Thirteen aquifers declined at rates that put them into the most troubled category. The researchers said this indicated a long-term problem that’s likely to worsen as reliance on aquifers grows."
http://grist.org/list/were-using-ground ... gn=climate
Statistics: Posted by Johhny Electriglide — Mon Jun 22, 2015 3:25 pm
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And this gives you a projection of the energy source mix of that accelerated approach up to 2050. Coal down, although still considerable, everything else, including oil and gas, up. I'm surprised hydro is so little given all the publicity around the 3 gorges dam project and its upstream counterparts. Also the biggest rise in the nonfossil fuel sources is nuclear, a technology that whatever its promise continues to flunk any free market test, not to mention favorable PR.
Statistics: Posted by Dingo — Wed Apr 15, 2015 10:29 am
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