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Peter Nguyen

America's breadbasket aquifer running dry - 3 views

http://www.naturalnews.com/031658_aquifer_depletion_Ogallala.html

cycle pollution water aquifer

started by Peter Nguyen on 24 Sep 13 no follow-up yet
tran vu tommy

america aquifer - 1 views

http://www.naturalnews.com/031658_aquifer_depletion_Ogallala.html

aquifer cycle pollution water

started by tran vu tommy on 24 Sep 13 no follow-up yet
Lori Uemura

America's breadbasket aquifer running dry; massive agriculture collapse inevitable - 5 views

www.naturalnews.com/quifer_depletion_Ogallala.html

shared by Lori Uemura on 24 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • breadbasket
  • And it's disappearing now faster than ever.
  • Happy, Texas
  • ...90 more annotations...
    • Jung Keun Jeon
      Jung Keun Jeon on 26 Sep 13
       
      ! I didn't know Ogalala Aquifer was the breadbasket for America
  • It's the largest underground freshwater supply in the world,
  • 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.
  • it provides crucial water resources for farming
  • No water means no irrigation
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 26 Sep 13
       
      No water means no irrigation,no irrigation means no money, no money means no life
  • This is so-called "fossil water" because once you use it, it's gone. And it's disappearing now faster than ever.
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 26 Sep 13
       
      fossil water: water than can only be use once, then it's gone.
  • This has led to a population explosion, too. Where food is cheap and plentiful, populations readily expand.
  • The very same problem is facing India, where fossil water is already running dry in many parts of the country.
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 26 Sep 13
       
      Does this usually happen to countries that are very hot and humid?
  • For hundreds of years, it has been a source of "cheap water," making farming economically feasible and keeping food prices down.
  • Starvation will become the new American landscape for those who cannot afford the sky-high prices for food.
  • conventional agriculture
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 26 Sep 13
       
      Modern farming: production of livestock, fish, poultry, meat, crop. 
  • http://www.eoearth.org/article/Aquifer_depletion)
  • aquifer depletion
  • food shortages.
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 26 Sep 13
       
      Starvation
  • agricultural disaster.
  • food slavery
  • grow and store some portion of your own food
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 26 Sep 13
       
      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? 
  • are fast approaching for those who do not have the means to grow at least a portion of their own food.
  • 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.
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 26 Sep 13
       
      This shows us how hard farmer works to grow the food we ate. 
  • home food production is going to become a critical survival skill. I
    • Dao Nguyen
      Dao Nguyen on 26 Sep 13
       
      Is underground water really going to dissapear?
  • breadbasket aquifer
  • it provides crucial water resources for farming
  • Ogallala Aquifer
    • yjung18
      yjung18 on 26 Sep 13
       
      Reminds me of if there is not sth it will lead to worse situation.
  • No water means no irrigation for the corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people and animals.
  • "fossil water"
  • problem
    • yjung18
      yjung18 on 26 Sep 13
       
      *New learning
    • yjung18
      yjung18 on 26 Sep 13
       
      This is surprising and interesting to me, because I thought water is always reusable and moves through water cycle.
  • he Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged in any significant way from rainfall or rivers.
  • In some regions along the aquifer, the water level has dropped so far that it has effectively disappeared
  • the wells have all run dry.
  • despair
  • feasible[9]
    • yjung18
      yjung18 on 26 Sep 13
       
      New Vocabulary -capable of being done with means at hand and circumstances as they are.
  • Where food is cheap and plentiful, populations readily expand.
    • yjung18
      yjung18 on 26 Sep 13
       
      It reminds me of people moving to the places where they have more benefits.
  • It only[12] follows that when food becomes scarce or expensive (putting it out of reach of average income earners), populations will fall.
    • yjung18
      yjung18 on 26 Sep 13
       
      This reminds me of the sentence above, that said population increase when food in cheap and plentiful
  • Starvation[16] will become the new American landscape for those who cannot afford the sky-high prices for food.
    • yjung18
      yjung18 on 26 Sep 13
       
      Important information that shows American are depending on cheap prices of food.
  • 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
    • yjung18
      yjung18 on 26 Sep 13
       
      New Learning. I never new a lot of countries were having troubles with water supply.
  • aquifer depletion
  • today's cheap, easy food -- grown on cheap fossil water -- simply isn't sustainable.
    • yjung18
      yjung18 on 26 Sep 13
       
      Important information. Gives me idea about we need a solution.
  • toxic pesticides and GMOs will only lead our world to agricultural disaster.
    • Hong Ying Chung
      Hong Ying Chung on 26 Sep 13
       
      Without the Ogallala Aquifer, American's food production land will collapses. 
  • 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.
  • home food production is going to become a critical survival skill.
  • from South Dakota all the way to Texas
  • the largest underground freshwater supply in the world
  • and it is being pumped dry
  • America's heartland food production collapses
  • Without the Ogallala Aquifer
  • no irrigation for the corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people and animals.
  • No water
  • drops another few inches as it is literally being sucked dry
  • the Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged in any significant way from rainfall or rivers.
  • "fossil water"
  • once you use it, it's gone
  • disappearing now faster than ever.
  • has become a place of despair
  • Dead cattle. Wilted crops.
  • Water doesn't magically reappear in the Ogallala
  • Once it's used up, it's gone.
  • led to a population explosion
  • food is cheap
  • and plentiful, populations readily expand.
  • food becomes scarce or expensive
  • after the
  • populations will fall
  • Ogallala runs dry
  • e Ogallala Aquifer isn't being recharged
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      ?
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      Why isn't it recharging?
  • 50,000 head of cattle, now there's 1,000,
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      ? why does water effect the amount of cattle?
  • cattle
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      V Cow
  • attle
  • Dust Bowl.
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      ?
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      What is a dust bowl?
  • collision
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      V Crash
  • inevitable
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      V
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      unavoidable
  • America's breadbasket
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      ? what is this?
  • , populations will fall.
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      ? Does this mean that this land can be abandoned?
  • never been a top priority.
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      ? Why don't they care about water?
  • thriving agricultura
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      V thriving: prosperous and growing agriculture: science and practice of farming
  • growing more of my own food
    • Seo Yoon Choi
      Seo Yoon Choi on 26 Sep 13
       
      ? is she/he growing it on a farm?
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      V - I found out that breadbasket in this case was a term for a geographic region that has the main source of grain.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      ? - If it's the largest in the world, does other countries also use it?
    • David Le
      David Le on 30 Sep 13
       
      Largestt underground supply
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      ? - Does that mean there hasn't been enough rainfall?
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      L - I never knew there was an aquifer that big in America.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      * - I wonder if they can find a solution.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      ? - Is the only solution to abandon people that don't have money to buy food and survive.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      ! - I think they took water for granted because it's always been there. People will only appreciate what is gone or scarce.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      *!? - Does that mean humans will die out if we don't do anything about this problem?
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      R - Reminds me of the GMO research I did in Cooking and Nutrition class.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      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.
    • Lam-Vi Ngo
      Lam-Vi Ngo on 26 Sep 13
       
      * - I think we should all learn basic skills in times of emergency. 
  • inevitable
  • Lori Uemura on 24 Sep 13
     
    (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.
  • Wilson Lu on 24 Sep 13
     
    its so cool :D im a koala
  • Jee Yoon Park on 27 Sep 13
     
    " 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'
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