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Nations must start to manage water as a global common good,
it’s been nice knowing you all
Nestle: We’ve lobbied governments around the world to
let us own all the fresh waterprotect the fresh water from nefarious actors.:(
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, my retirement plan is dying in the potable water riots
Oohh, I remember reading this 40 years ago.
Anyway…
We figured out destroying the ozone layer was probably a bad idea but wasting all the freshwater is a bridge too far I guess.
For those of us who are alive to read this … enjoy the liveable environment we have now (never worry about the planet because it will outlast us).
I feel so bad for the those who are not yet born and will grow up to inherit the shit we’ve allowed to happen.
This article is better https://phys.org/news/2024-11-nasa-satellites-reveal-abrupt-global.html
The associated research article is also a good read, for the statistics behind this multi-year drought: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10712-024-09860-w
Where are they implying it went? Did it evaporate out into space? Was it absorbed into the earth’s crust? Or is it just becoming unpotable - and if that, how does the change in earth’s wobble that they use to make this claim imply that water has lost it’s freshness?
There are over 8 billion people on earth. People drink, wash, and shit in multiple litres of water daily. Crops require water. Livestock requires water. We slaughter several edit:
Trillion (with a T)billion livestock globally each year, there is A LOT of livestock. Industry requires water. Industry is trusted not to hoard, pollute or waste water. Water processing and sewage reclamation requires well funded public infrastructure. The hotter our atmosphere is, the more water vapour it will hold.Just some ideas to get you started.
I always assumed that it was a matter of a lack of infrastructure to do water processing and reclamation, and or just it takes time for water to cycle back around to being fresh water. I never thought about how a shift in climate means the air holds on to more water.
Goes to show, despite it being bad news, you really do learn something new everyday.