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