America's breadbasket aquifer running dry; massive agriculture collapse inevitable - 5 views
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breadbasket
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And it's disappearing now faster than ever.
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Happy, Texas
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It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world,
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Happy, Texas has become a place of despair. Dead cattle. Wilted crops. Once-moist soils turned to dust. And Happy is just the beginning of this story because this same agricultural tragedy will be repeated across Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Colorado in the next few decades.
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it provides crucial water resources for farming
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No water means no irrigation
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No water means no irrigation,no irrigation means no money, no money means no life
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This is so-called "fossil water" because once you use it, it's gone. And it's disappearing now faster than ever.
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This has led to a population explosion, too. Where food is cheap and plentiful, populations readily expand.
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The very same problem is facing India, where fossil water is already running dry in many parts of the country.
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For hundreds of years, it has been a source of "cheap water," making farming economically feasible and keeping food prices down.
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Starvation will become the new American landscape for those who cannot afford the sky-high prices for food.
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conventional agriculture
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http://www.eoearth.org/article/Aquifer_depletion)
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aquifer depletion
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food shortages.
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agricultural disaster.
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food slavery
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grow and store some portion of your own food
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Does this mean that you should be planting and farming your own food at your own house? What if you run out of food there too?
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are fast approaching for those who do not have the means to grow at least a portion of their own food.
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understanding water, soil, open-pollinated seeds, organic fertilizers, soil probiotics, insect pollination, growing with the seasons, sprouting, food harvesting, food drying, canning, storage and much more.
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home food production is going to become a critical survival skill. I
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breadbasket aquifer
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it provides crucial water resources for farming
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Ogallala Aquifer
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No water means no irrigation for the corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people and animals.
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"fossil water"
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problem
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he Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged in any significant way from rainfall or rivers.
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In some regions along the aquifer, the water level has dropped so far that it has effectively disappeared
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the wells have all run dry.
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despair
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feasible[9]
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New Vocabulary -capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are.
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Where food is cheap and plentiful, populations readily expand.
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It only[12] follows that when food becomes scarce or expensive (putting it out of reach of average income earners), populations will fall.
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This reminds me of the sentence above, that said population increase when food in cheap and plentiful
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Starvation[16] will become the new American landscape for those who cannot afford the sky-high prices for food.
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Important information that shows American are depending on cheap prices of food.
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The very same problem is facing India, where fossil water is already running dry in many parts of the country. It's the same story in China, too, where water conservation has never been a top priority. Even the Middle East is facing its own water crisis
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New Learning. I never new a lot of countries were having troubles with water supply.
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aquifer depletion
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today's cheap, easy food -- grown on cheap fossil water -- simply isn't sustainable.
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toxic pesticides and GMOs will only lead our world to agricultural disaster.
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Without the Ogallala Aquifer, American's food production land will collapses.
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The[22] days of food slavery are fast approaching for those who do not have the means to grow at least a portion of their own food.
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home food production is going to become a critical survival skill.
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from South Dakota all the way to Texas
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the largest underground freshwater supply in the world
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and it is being pumped dry
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America's heartland food production collapses
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Without the Ogallala Aquifer
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no irrigation for the corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people and animals.
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No water
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drops another few inches as it is literally being sucked dry
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the Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged in any significant way from rainfall or rivers.
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"fossil water"
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once you use it, it's gone
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disappearing now faster than ever.
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has become a place of despair
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Dead cattle. Wilted crops.
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Water doesn't magically reappear in the Ogallala
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Once it's used up, it's gone.
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led to a population explosion
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food is cheap
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and plentiful, populations readily expand.
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food becomes scarce or expensive
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after the
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populations will fall
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Ogallala runs dry
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e Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged
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50,000 head of cattle, now there's 1,000,
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cattle
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Dust Bowl.
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collision
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inevitable
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America's breadbasket
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, populations will fall.
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never been a top priority.
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thriving agricultura
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V thriving: prosperous and growing agriculture: science and practice of farming
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growing more of my own food
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V - I found out that breadbasket in this case was a term for a geographic region that has the main source of grain.
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? - Is the only solution to abandon people that don't have money to buy food and survive.
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! - I think they took water for granted because it's always been there. People will only appreciate what is gone or scarce.
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*!? - Does that mean humans will die out if we don't do anything about this problem?
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R - Reminds me of sometimes we also take food for granted. We don't know firsthand how hard the farmers work to feed the world.
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inevitable
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(NaturalNews) It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas. It's underneath most of Nebraska's farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It's called the Ogallala Aquifer, and it is being pumped dry. -
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" America's breadbasket aquifer running dry; massive agriculture collapse inevitable Thursday, March 10, 2011 by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...) Tags: aquifer depletion, Ogallala, health news 3,189 1 (NaturalNews) It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas. It's underneath most of Nebraska's farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It's called the Ogallala Aquifer, and it is being pumped dry. See the map of this aquifer here: http://www.naturalnews.com/images/Ogallala.g... Without the Ogallala Aquifer, America's heartland food production collapses. No water means no irrigation for the corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people and animals. And each year, the Ogallala Aquifer drops another few inches as it is literally being sucked dry by the tens of thousands of agricultural wells that tap into it across the heartland of America. This problem with all this is that the Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged in any significant way from rainfall or rivers. This is so-called "fossil water" because once you use it, it's gone. And it's disappearing now faster than ever. In some regions along the aquifer, the water level has dropped so far that it has effectively disappeared -- places like Happy, Texas, where a once-booming agricultural town has collapsed to a population of just 595. All the wells drilled there in the 1950's tapped into the Ogallala Aquifer and seemed to provide abundant water at the time. But today the wells have all run dry. Happy, Texas has become a place of despair. Dead cattle. Wilted crops. Once-moist soils turned to dust. And Happy is just the beginning of this story because this same agricultural tragedy will be repeated across Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Colorado in the next few decades. That'
