New Mexico is also part of the Ogallala Aquifer. There are over 40 homes in Curry County New Mexico without water! I honestly wish "we" were not part of it but we are! Please consider doing some extensive research. The National Geo came to Clovis to speak to people about not having water!
Those floods that happen on the Platte river need to be captured to refill the aquifer. Easier said than done I'm sure. Suspect a lot of the corn goes to ethanol production - trading water for fuel. I have family in central Montana and they are big wheat farmers, 10-15 inches of precip/year. Corn is much more water intensive.
US will build a giant green house in the Gulf of Mexico 3,000 feet high and that goes to the Ogalla lands utilizing the warm water evaporation into condensers and aqua-ducts.
It will be immigration to areas with water and all their pproperty prices will go up, food prices up. Poor people forced out of their rental homes and off their land due to increased property taxes.
@@samuelmorales2344 ..Is that for sure or just an assumption? The rate at which we're consuming ALL natural resources (like there's NO tomorrow); our great grand kids will have a dark future!
At least in my area of eastern Colorado, under the water is impermeable shale, and under that salty water, because it was ocean here millions of years ago. Once you get down to the shale, you're done.
Capitalisim operates on a get there the firstest and take the mostest. When the resource is "free", it is the story of the commons. The resource is exploited until it is destroyed. All this talk of limiting use and restoring the acquifer seems like wishful thinking since everyone wants more than can be supplied by the aquifer, realistic limits will not be able to be established, since realistic limits mean that eventually someones farm is going to fail. We just have too many people and more are coming. When our farms begin to fail due to lack of water, guess what? The rest of the world will not have food either and they will all start immigrating here. I pity our children. In some ways this will be the least of their problems
New Mexico is also part of the Ogallala Aquifer. There are over 40 homes in Curry County New Mexico without water! I honestly wish "we" were not part of it but we are! Please consider doing some extensive research. The National Geo came to Clovis to speak to people about not having water!
They do not care...
Yeah. When there is not even enough water for farms, Las Vegas seems like one of the stupidist ideas there ever was.
Those floods that happen on the Platte river need to be captured to refill the aquifer. Easier said than done I'm sure. Suspect a lot of the corn goes to ethanol production - trading water for fuel. I have family in central Montana and they are big wheat farmers, 10-15 inches of precip/year. Corn is much more water intensive.
So what exactly are we going to do when the aquifer runs out of water?
US will build a giant green house in the Gulf of Mexico 3,000 feet high and that goes to the Ogalla lands utilizing the warm water evaporation into condensers and aqua-ducts.
It will be immigration to areas with water and all their pproperty prices will go up, food prices up. Poor people forced out of their rental homes and off their land due to increased property taxes.
@@samuelmorales2344 ..Is that for sure or just an assumption? The rate at which we're consuming ALL natural resources (like there's NO tomorrow); our great grand kids will have a dark future!
wow
So what's under the Ogallala aquifer?
Dude water 💧
At least in my area of eastern Colorado, under the water is impermeable shale, and under that salty water, because it was ocean here millions of years ago. Once you get down to the shale, you're done.
Bed rock or shale
too many people, too few resources.
Doomed. We are so doomed.
Crops like corn and almonds are ruining our planet
Capitalisim operates on a get there the firstest and take the mostest. When the resource is "free", it is the story of the commons. The resource is exploited until it is destroyed. All this talk of limiting use and restoring the acquifer seems like wishful thinking since everyone wants more than can be supplied by the aquifer, realistic limits will not be able to be established, since realistic limits mean that eventually someones farm is going to fail. We just have too many people and more are coming. When our farms begin to fail due to lack of water, guess what? The rest of the world will not have food either and they will all start immigrating here. I pity our children. In some ways this will be the least of their problems
farmers better stop utilising the water under for it supports the earth above from falling in
sure, mexico city is a prime example of that. However there is stone and then lava underneath all of that.
So basically we are learning about a lake named ogallala and out of all the names they chose the funniest one🤡
How much do they pay for the water? I believe desalination of ocean water is the answer.
We will need for fusion power to be economical in order to provide the massive amounts of energy to run desalinization