How scarce will water be when I'm old

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How Scarce will water be when Frykte is old?
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	Extremely scarce
	There will be lots of water to drink
	Hmm, not sure

V. Illych L.: Apr 11, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

Nintendo Kid posted:

If you live somewhere where you've had to rely on fossil aquifers heavily, you likely do not reside somewhere that would have been considered "moderately wet" by an ecologist within living memory.

Lots of texas is straight up dry, or on the borders of dry and acceptable, with excessive human population quickly reducing it to unsustainable long term. I posted a full desertificiation risk map earlier in the thread, much of Texas is "moderate risk" or even already dry on there

Plus even the cities that have decent local rainfall, they don't have the far planned ahead water setups that places like NYC have, where the city owns and controls vast amounts of land elsewhere in their general area for long-distance supply, which ties with heavy restrictions on development in those area.

do people live in the places with annual rainfall of over four thousand millimeters? because holy lol that is a lot of rain

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V. Illych L.: Apr 11, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

computer parts posted:

i've been in the part of Oregon that has that much and no, they don't really.

It also never really stops raining though.

like, my home town has about 2250 mm/year and that's already enough that exchange students have a hard time coping, double that just seems insane

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V. Illych L.: Apr 11, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

OwlFancier posted:

4000mm annually in parts of the UK.

I have no idea how you cope with it not raining every other day.

rain in the british isles is the most overrated thing ever, it's just above-average humidity over long periods

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V. Illych L.: Apr 11, 2008; ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

^^what's that, some monsoon poo poo? 'cos that's intense

OwlFancier posted:

Parts of it true, I live in north yorkshire which is fairly dry at 600mm annual rainfall, but the 4000mm places like the lake district are literally raining nearly all the time. I've spent several weeks there and about one day of it wasn't raining. It's glorious.

I can't imagine living somewhere like California where you just have sunshine all the time.

eh, i was on easter holiday in the lake district once, wasn't so bad

years and years ago now, though, can't remember where we were, exactly

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