You're right, I suppose, but at the same time, I don't doubt the quality of life will drop quite significantly. We're all used to having water available to us at any point of any single day. Drinking and cooking, taking a shower, flushing the toilet, washing your clothes and your dishes, perhaps watering your plants or cleaning your car? Well, a lot of us take that for granted, but once you start running out of water, you either adapt by only doing some of these activities once or twice a week or two or you don't change at all and keep it all up until you've got fuck all left.
Of course, you can go out and buy shitloads of bottled water to help you get through this, but that means spending money and obviously if you're poor, you're shit out of luck. Money that goes to water bottling companies which definitely don't help the situation at all.
So yes, it isn't like "Oh, fuck, everything's on fire!" kind of situation, but it'll highly likely affect us in a major way.
I feel pretty lucky the corner of earth I'm on has people who actually plan ahead a bit when it comes to water (desalination, recycling groundwater, treating wastewater ect). It seems so strange to me that some countries do almost nothing to save their water.
Well, I think it's because nobody really cared or thought water would disappear so quickly. We weren't prepared. Now we're getting royally fucked.
We have laws in New Mexico (or at least some cities like ABQ and Santa Fe) that dictate when you can and can't water your yard, and some regions even have laws calling for zero-scaping. It comes with a hefty fine if you violate these ordinances, but the rich people who demand having the greenest lawn in the state are wealthy enough that they just pay it and keep on watering that thick, green lawn, even in bad droughts.
It's a bit of an inevitability that many societies will undergo some big changes due to all this climate stuff. Now it seems like it's more a matter of preparing for it ahead of time, or getting taken by 'surprise' later.
To add to my fellow Czech poster, this is a trend that's been getting only worse throughout the years. Last year, ponds and rivers everywhere were also dried up, with little to no rainfall, spring temperatures in mid-winter etc.. basically what happened this year, happened already last year, and what happened last year happened the year before that too. However it's getting progressively worse and worse.
In the countryside, almost everyone was worried or complained about the lack of water for the past four years, with breaking news usually being that a river has hit it's low since xxxx. It's not just the countryside though. I live in Prague, and from what I remember, our river Vltava is also slowly but surely drying up. There definitely isn't as much water as there used to be, especially in the eastern regions, where temperatures are simply higher then in the rest of our country.
My hopes are that atleast our country will start saving water for the future. It's the least we can do right now, especially given the region.
I've been saying for a while to my Dad how I honestly believe the seasons have/are shifting, shit's going nowhere good right now, I'm not sure how to feel about the whole situation, I don't feel as though I can do shit about it other than see how it goes.
It's not going to be long before we get to a point where we've fucked ourselves over and can't fix it for a century or 2 of radical, ecologically friendly solutions, but unless some sort of crisis point is reached, nothing is going to change in a big way.
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The worst part about 115F is using fucking fahrenheight to measure temperature rather than superior celsius
"Fools! The worst part of global warming isnt that you may be screwed over this way, it is that you will be screwed over this OTHER way!"
You might, though. Weather extremes aren't just unique to Australia. We have seen hotter days, more flooding, more random cold snaps.
Average temperature rises don't correlate to ~only~ drought, although it will trend that way eventually.
Lawns are so fucking garbage and useless, I really despise the culture surrounding them.
Lawns can actually be awesome, but there are plenty of grasses people could use which are far, far more drought-resistant (and use less water over-all) that still look nice, but people seem to prefer Bermuda grass or the like because it's so much thicker and deeper a green than, say, Buffalo grass.
Damn, starting to look like Colorado...
Here in Germany nobody knows that the water from the tap is basically a fossil ressource.
Gonna need a citation on that half figure, from everything I remember, most Americans believe in Climate Change. Its the fuckheads in DC.
Gallup poll
69% of Republicans, 4% Democrats say global warming is exaggerated
Insanity.
Jesus Christ.
This came to me as complete suprise i guess in Finland it isnt a such big deal if one of our 1000 lakes dries
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