re: #43 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines

Lubbock’s water situation is already perilous, private wells are running dry in and around town and little is being done about it. The primary surface source, Lake Alan Henry, has only been online 5 years and is already drying up. It consistently fails to provide the required volume and city planning pays no heed to the possibility of climate change making the situation worse. This forces continued use of groundwater, with predicted depletion rates that take no account of frakking use and that also use replenishment estimates that ignore climate change. They claim they are good for 40 years. I think it’s more like 10 and may be even less with a really severe drought event.

Agreed, and in addition, the other surface reservoir, Lake Meredith on the Canadian River, is basically unusable. The combination of fracking water, irrigation, and climate change drought is turning West Texas into a human desert (it has been an actual desert for quite a while, but reservoirs and groundwater has made it habitable). The crisis is upon all of that population whether they realize it or not.

They may not believe in climate change, but Mother Nature doesn’t give a fuck. All of their investments in their homes, communities, infrastructure, industry, and cities isn’t worth a rat’s ass without potable water.

They’re fucked, and they are going to have to abandon all of it.