I'm a mechanical engineer, and I've been watching the situation at Lake Mead and Lake Powell closely. For some background for the past 22 years the United States has been in a Mega drought. The largest drought in 1200 years. This drought shows no signs of stopping, and if history is correct it wont continue for just one more year. It can continue for decades even a century. Clearly this is long enough to wipe out a civilization.
Back to the lakes, they are almost to the point in which they will be unable to produce hydro power for the Southwest. This is important as it will be impossible to live there for the 50 million or so Americans in the region.
What about aquifers you may say? Also in dire straits. Ogallala aquifer which supplies much of the breadbasket of the country with water is dangerously low. Farmers in the flyover states are already determined to pump the aquifer dry in order to provide for their families.
So whats the situation? We are about to run out of water and power for 50 million Americans, and will be unable to grow enough food for the rest of the country.
Timeline of events: 2023: The masses catch on. It is already too late. 2024: Panic sets int. Governments invest money into infrastructure, too late at this point. 2025: The time for fear.
What can we do? Engineers like me need money to solve the problem. Not just a couple million. Think the entire US military budget. Even if we had it now. Right now. It's too late it would take years to build the infrastructure necessary to do anything meaningful with desalination technologies.
Who does this affect? All of us. No one is safe. No amount of money or status or prestige will save anyone when the water wars start.
You better pray for rain anons. You better pray that I'm not right, because if I am we are about to enter the scariest possible future for all of us. Possibly in the history of the world.
I’m just chilling and waiting for the elites to try to take water from the Great Lakes. Even though #1, water is contaminated with Chemicals and sewage And #2, the Michiganders and Canadians love those lakes and will fight for them
Sebastian Carter
I don’t care I live by the Great Lakes. Try to take it
Carson Johnson
Stay the fuck away from the great lakes. This is your only warning.
Luke Young
-Plant trees appropriate to your environment. -Save water.
Urge your senators to get off their lazy asses and do something. protecting the environment is not a political issue, but dumbfucks in red states thought it was.
This is the biggest natural disaster in the history of the world. Just because its a slow one, and not an immediate one like a hurricane doesn't mean this isn't the single biggest event in human history.
Southeast USA is the best place to be, but there are a lot of respectable persons of African descent there. This is the biggest challenge when those 50-100 million Americans head east.
Jeremiah Baker
>but there are a lot of respectable persons of African descent there. kill yourself
Logan Scott
Nigger, about 30% of the ogallala aquifer has been pumped out to date, and at current rates it would take another 50 years to drop it another 39% for a total depletion of 69%. I'm really not that worried about it. The southwest on the other hand? Great point about the lakes getting to low to generate hydro electric power. Should be funny to watch California's new green deal bullshit come home to roost. I will shoot every Californian water refugee, in Minecraft.
Blake Bennett
>muttmericans have to rely on water from lakes Why don't you just turn on the tapwater retards kek
Sebastian Mitchell
>enough to wipe out a civilization The planet is overpopulated so that might not be a bad thing. Are you part of the AOC and Al Gore team?
Zachary Baker
We can't let Caesar attack the dam.
Gavin Morris
There is a certain mafia using weather modification to ruin everyone’s lives and most people have a sexual attraction to them, that’s a first big problem. Second problem is how water is cycled, certain cities in dry regions already store rainwater and improve water retention via vegetation and increased permeability of the soil.
Also if there are ways for non-criminals to have access to those military technologies, they can provoke rain and are well tested.
Other technologies that could help are extracting water from air humidity, filter salt water (there are many ways to do it, some of them overpriced and over-engineered) or evapore water from the sea then use geoengineering and weather manipulation to try to spread the vapor (if possible).
Brody Cox
If states run too low on fresh water they'll use desalinated sea water. Problem solved. Don't be distracted by a fake water crisis.
Angel Hall
Yeah people here said to build desalination plants years ago. Not a stupid highspeed grift train. Whatever fuck these corrupt politicians they'll get whats coming to them when the mobs form
Nicholas Rogers
it's a bot thread you fucking idiots
Brayden Taylor
OH NO, WHO WILL REPLY TO ALL THE REAL THREADS!!??
Bentley Lewis
Saving water is another idea, crops can be irrigated via dripping or from the underground, greywater can easily be recycled, toilets can work without water (but I haven’t seen a good solution yet), …
Ryan Kelly
Wisconsin, Ohio, and New York love them too. So do states that barely touch them like Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and Minnesota. I don’t love mayfly season and I know they dump chemicals in them, but these lakes are a lot more vital than anybody realizes.
Also, there is no infrastructure for a pipeline project of the scale they propose. It would take years of planning and building. It would be opposed by the Great Lakes states and Canada. It would be sabotaged if it was ever partially constructed. And it would not happen fast enough to fix the problem anyways. Desalination would more viable. Like OP says it too would take years to build out meaningful infrastructure. But it would be the easier, faster, and cheaper solution than this pipeline pipedream, and that’s assuming the pipeline would even happen (it wouldn’t)
Blake Jenkins
You are the bot nigger
Asher Thomas
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Dylan Hughes
Ok glowie explain, you can use occult terminology if you don't want others to understand
Austin Nguyen
Desalinization if done via concentrating solar in a decentralized way is very cheap and quick to build.
If you pay dozens of millions for (((Bechtel))) to build a single plant powered by the local electrical grid that serves the whole state, you are fucked.
Isaiah Rodriguez
It's not in a drought you dumbass it's a desert. If retards weren't farming and building cities using the Colorado river it wouldn't be a problem.
Andrew Peterson
It’s a thread posted by a gay jew, what is it really about?
Leo Green
>What can we do? Engineers like me need money to solve the problem. Not just a couple million.
Gtfo gifting kike
Owen Scott
Nigger you're a moron stop derailing interesting discussions, I had a fun time scrolling through the thread until I saw your autistic comments, I wish you pain and suffering for this insolent behaviour.
Noah Morris
>Who does this affect? All of us. No one is safe. Lmao. Scotland reporting in, no sign of the rain stopping all week
Daniel Phillips
All you have to do is figure out a quick and economical way to convert sea water to regular water and problem is solved. Fucking idiots can't even figure that out by now, in 2022
Eli Lopez
I'll figure it out, if you pay me enough.
Jason Cruz
The water here is safe though. Why would I do anything to preserve it? I can't send water to Caliniggers even if I wanted to do it, which I don't
