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(@lovendures)
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Here are a few stories from the past 2 weeks which discuss the potential for a lack of clean drinkable water in the future and rainfall issues relating to crop growth and the Arctic change impacts. Many of these issues validate  what Jeanne has seen for our future.

 

A team from the Institute of Forest Sciences at the University of Freiburg shows that the extraction of ground water for industry and households is increasingly damaging floodplain forests in Europe given the increasing intensity and length of drought periods in the summer.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-floodplain-forests-threat.html#jCp

As the Arctic warms faster than the rest of the globe, permafrost, land ice and sea ice are disappearing at unprecedented rates. And these changes not only affect the infrastructure, economies and cultures of the Arctic, they have significant impacts elsewhere as well

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-arctic-widespread-impacts.html#jCp

'Dead zones' could become increasingly common in lakes in future due to climate change, reducing fish numbers and releasing toxic substances into drinking water.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-lake-dead-zones-fish-poison.html#jCp

Even if humans radically reduce greenhouse gas emissions soon, important crop-growing regions of the world can expect changes to rainfall patterns by 2040. In fact, some regions are already experiencing new climatic regimes compared with just a generation ago.

Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2019-03-rainfall-key-crops-greenhouse-gas.html#jCp  


   
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I have worried about water for 40 years.  I am a worry wort, but before the huge floods out west, I did a Tarot reading and I deduced that we would regret not having enough for water after some catastrophe.  Water filters, rain barrels, and cisterns are used in many places.  We would be wise to employ these as a matter of course.  It would be one level of protection and help the environment.


   
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(@jeanne-mayell)
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If you read the article Lovendures linked in her post about what is happening in Chennai right now, you can get a glimpse of the future remedies. Rainwater recapture is going to be a thing, e.g., putting rainwater capture mechanisms on rooftops. 

Today there is a storyabout a Michigan judge who is shutting down an oil pipeline that runs beneath one of the Great Lakes because it is old and could leak at any moment. Thank god we have judges who can do this.  The Great Lakes are the largest fresh water bodies in the world.  And it boggle the mind that the Republican Corporate powers are allowed to endanger that water with, of all things, a fossil fuel, the very substance that is threatening the end of civilization.  


   
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