The Climate Change Thread

Gomez Adams said:
We just finished a 12 year war with Alabama and Florida over water. We won. But that comes at the expense of the people of Alabama and Florida.

It pays to be upstream.
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It always will until collectors are in full swing.

www.theguardian.com

Out of thin air: can hydropanels bring water to parched communities?

Some skeptics say the technology at present is too inefficient and expensive to be a practical solution to water scarcity
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www.futurity.org

Device harvests water from humidity 24 hours a day - Futurity

A new device can harvest water from humidity in the air to provide a source of fresh water where it's hard to come by. And it doesn't need any power.
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Our typical humidity here is between 60 and 80% all summer long. It's very similar throughout the entire Southeastern United States. A lot of people that visit here from up north can't even breath in the dead of summer the air is so thick and hot.
 
So there's this:

www.cnn.com

'Day Zero': This city is counting down the days until its water taps run dry

A week ago, a dam in South Africa's Nelson Mandela Bay was decommissioned as levels dropped too low to extract any actual water. Another is just days away from emptying out. Now much of the city is counting down to Day Zero, the day all taps run dry.
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The wider Eastern Cape region of South Africa suffered a severe multi-year drought between 2015 and 2020, which devastated the local economy, particularly its agricultural sector. It had just a brief reprieve before slipping back into drought in late 2021.​
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Like so many of the world's worst natural resource crises, the severe water shortage here is a combination of poor management and warping weather patterns caused by human-made climate change.​

Same exact thing that's happening in the Southwestern United States. Never mind that both of the largest reservoirs in the nation are drying up putting the lives of 40,000,000 people at risk, they're still pumping tons of water into the hot air in the fountains in Las Vegas, still using hundreds of thousands of gallons of water building golf courses in the middle of the desert...

It happens here, it's an act of God. It happens anywhere else, it's mismanagement.
 
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