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Woodchip posted:Meh, the constant flooding rain should fix that issue. You would think so, but the harder the rains are the smaller % of it that gets absorbed into groundwater. Whatever drains away as floodwaters or through storm sewers into rivers doesn't end up in the aquifers
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The funniest* thing is that this is well known and everyone just accepts that the aquifer will run dry at some point and oh well. Like they've known for decades this was happening and just decided to accept that their ultimately doomed. https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article28640722.html *You may disagree as to whether this is funny
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PostNouveau posted:Found a map with a legend further in the thread Are the splotches in Idaho/Washington the result of the dams on the snake river and columbia river?
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FacebookEmpathyMom posted:The funniest* thing is that this is well known and everyone just accepts that the aquifer will run dry at some point and oh well. Like they've known for decades this was happening and just decided to accept that their ultimately doomed. https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article28640722.html But I need to water my lawn now! I have to have a garden which looks like something from the English countryside, where it rains 12 hours a day, 300 days a year. I just have to!
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people don't even know why they have lawns. that's the wildest part. lawns emerged fully formed in 1951 as an essential part of American existence, they have no prehistory.
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Atrocious Joe posted:hypothetically, if someone gets their drinking water from the great lakes, should they be concerned That someone would be the entire metro Detroit area
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lawns are a land use problem, not a water use problem residential water demand is a small fraction of what agriculture uses, it's not even close 
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Atrocious Joe posted:people don't even know why they have lawns. that's the wildest part. lawns are an old european aristo thing that eventually got incorporated into public park design in the US you're right though in that they were a standard feature in levittown and really metastasized from there, along with all the other elements of our suburban hellscape
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lawns are a land use problem, not a water use problem Turf grass lawns are bad for more reasons than just water use, and they are still a water use problem. Just not as bad as growing almonds and avocados in California, but then nothing else is
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turf lawns are worse than agricultural lands per capita when it comes to fertilizer run off I believe. I don't have any stats on this, but I wouldn't be surprised if pesticide use on them is disproportionately stupid too.
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hurricane kyle is gonna be the big one, i can feel it
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im rooting for edouard cause people will hate how its spelled
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FacebookEmpathyMom posted:The funniest* thing is that this is well known and everyone just accepts that the aquifer will run dry at some point and oh well. Like they've known for decades this was happening and just decided to accept that their ultimately doomed. https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article28640722.html https://twitter.com/Papapishu/status/746803108949409793
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FacebookEmpathyMom posted:The funniest* thing is that this is well known and everyone just accepts that the aquifer will run dry at some point and oh well. Like they've known for decades this was happening and just decided to accept that their ultimately doomed. https://www.kansascity.com/news/state/kansas/article28640722.html it's actually insanely funny that we wasted a unique very fresh cleanwater supply of water that could have been used for emergencies and human sustenance in times of severe drought or need, and supported humanity for like 1,000 years if used deliberately and with need, and instead blew through it in like <100 years to grow a bunch of corn that just gets mushed into lovely fuel to make car gogogo and growing cheap $1.99/lb steaks for all the idiot loving moron americans that have to eat a well-done steak w/ potatoes and ketchup everynight for dinner bc that's how manly straight-hood is maintained and anything else is unamerican
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Xaris posted:it's actually insanely funny that we wasted a unique very fresh cleanwater supply of water that could have been used for emergencies and human sustenance in times of severe drought or need, and supported humanity for like 1,000 years if used deliberately and with need, and instead blew through it in like <100 years to grow a bunch of corn that just gets mushed into lovely fuel to make car gogogo and growing cheap $1.99/lb steaks for all the idiot loving moron americans that have to eat a well-done steak w/ potatoes and ketchup everynight for dinner bc that's how manly straight-hood is maintained and anything else is unamerican ditto oil good luck to whatever civilizations arise over the next 10 million years, your cheap, easy fuel source to bootstrap from is gone, hope the 12 month long hypercane season is treating you ok
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Atrocious Joe posted:turf lawns are worse than agricultural lands per capita when it comes to fertilizer run off I believe. I don't have any stats on this, but I wouldn't be surprised if pesticide use on them is disproportionately stupid too. proper lawn care involving getting rid of leaves each fall and throwing away all the grass clippings and then needing to add a bunch of fertilizer is the greatest part of the entire scam that is owning a lawn I just let the leaves stay on my lawn over the winter, then mow them in the spring, and my lawn remains full green and healthy with nothing else to add on my part
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Spime Wrangler posted:ditto oil Hey, you just need to make a wind turbines that can survive those hyper canes and you're all set
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The Glumslinger posted:Hey, you just need to make a wind turbines that can survive those hyper canes and you're all set Sheltering in place as a hurricane whips 120-foot-long turbine blades at my house
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gently caress You And Diebold posted:You would think so, but the harder the rains are the smaller % of it that gets absorbed into groundwater. Whatever drains away as floodwaters or through storm sewers into rivers doesn't end up in the aquifers As a fun bonus, the torrential rains also sweep away topsoil. So heavy rain fall not only doesn't replenish groundwater it also actively destroys the soil
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My favorite lawn thing was spraypainting lawns green with weirdass green fertilizer mix poo poo during the winter.
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PostNouveau posted:Found a map with a legend further in the thread the mississippi delta?
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ground water, as opposed to whole bean water
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:ground water, as opposed to whole bean water
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lawns are a land use problem, not a water use problem big fan of our insistence on large-scale irrigation and animal agriculture in the southwest and california, places famous for having plentiful water supplies
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that usgs site posted:Estimated groundwater depletion in the United States during 1900–2008 totals approximately 1,000 cubic kilometers (km3). lake superior's got like 1200 years of freshwater for us at that rate! what's the big deal
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Notorious R.I.M. posted:ground water, as opposed to whole bean water aka aquafaba
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Spime Wrangler posted:lake superior's got like 1200 years of freshwater for us at that rate! what's the big deal lmfao the united states is totally gonna aral sea the great lakes as the aquifers dry up
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Spime Wrangler posted:lake superior's got like 1200 years of freshwater for us at that rate! what's the big deal lake superior isnt right under the crops
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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:lmfao the united states is totally gonna aral sea the great lakes as the aquifers dry up The soviets realized that the aral sea was an abomination that only existed as a fluke of nature, it's time we do the same with Lake Erie.
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Flunky posted:hurricane kyle is gonna be the big one, i can feel it lol if Hurricane Marco hits FL and Little Marco has to answer for it
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Megillah Gorilla posted:I like the American Society of Civil Engineers' Report Card for America's Infrastructure
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Minrad posted:proper lawn care involving getting rid of leaves each fall and throwing away all the grass clippings and then needing to add a bunch of fertilizer is the greatest part of the entire scam that is owning a lawn
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Ramrod Hotshot posted:lol if Hurricane Marco hits FL and Little Marco has to answer for it funnier if it fucks up dc and rubio has to apologize to trump
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Megillah Gorilla posted:But I need to water my lawn now! Imagine watering your lawn or raking leaves. Who do you think does that poo poo in the forest, bitch?
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Grand Theft Autobot posted:Imagine watering your lawn or raking leaves. Who do you think does that poo poo in the forest, bitch? Nobody raking the forests is why they keep catching on fire!
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it always feels bonkers to me that hurricane andrew was in mid august and was...andrew so I find myself making sure the list hadn't lapped back around or something  gently caress that storm
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:why contain it? let the leaves pile up on your lawn. let them heat up in the springtime in a mushy pile of compost. in the end, your garden will be begging to get some of that. thats what cool people do the rest have chemlawn show up weekly and contribute to dead zones at the outflow of rivers in the gulf of mexico
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