Municipal use is around 4M acre feet while irrigation needs around 8M acre feet. Why not reuse water after treatment for agriculture? This way you could slash a lot from the irrigation needs. A second thought must be if the agricultural business is sustainable. What is grown, how much water does it use and can these farms continue to operate. This will be hard. And you have to take a look into the future: what changes will climate change cause. Water policies are long term projects. Leaking pipes are an economic problem but not an ecological one: this water stays in the ground.
@@svenweihusen57 A proposal has been submitted to both the USA and PRC governments to geoengineer one of the weather systems which feeds directly into eastern and gulf rain budgets. This will also increase hurricane landfalls, but is a net benefit. Population and agriculture/industry stress is always a problem tho
@@conormcmenemie5126 I really don’t see how you can geoengineer a separate weather system. Weather is just the outcome of the global parameters. You can’t geoengineer an isolated weather system and the question is what are the downsides of these projects. There is no change to a system that doesn’t have some negative effects. One of the problems is that geoengineering a problem without solving the effect which causes the problem is like using pain killers for tooth problems. Yes, you have less pain but underneath the problems even grows.
@@svenweihusen57 Evaporate a load of water just west of Djibuti at about 4pm after the ground has absorbed about 20MJ of solar heat. The resultant atmospheric river drawn up and west onto the ethiopian highlands creates a kiremt rainstorm, which carried westwards by the trade winds becomes organised in an African Easterly Wave (AEW) event. The AEW drifts west then NW through the gulf an onto the pacific north west. Done.
Wall Street must be forced to divest their enormous holdings of single and multi-family residences. There needs to be a hard cap on a permit based system for large financial institutions to own family properties.
There are, in operation, Mobile water reclamation trailers that WILL clean ‘frac’ water to use on the next hole! Make this mandatory for permitting and have a surcharge on new water needed. With out petroleum products YOU WILL BE NAKED AND HAVE NO ELECTRICITY period! There has to be compromise and the transition to nuclear power must begin asap.
@@yoyomawh4091 completely agree! But as someone who’s done environmental on fracking sites, those guys don’t give a single frack about what they’re spraying into the air, on the ground, and into the groundwater. It’s a total shitshow. I’m pessimistic about our ability to change our culture in time. We may be well dressed and very warm as we all get cancer. When you ask them about it, they don’t care. They think keeping benzene out of our groundwater is a political issue.
@@yoyomawh4091 (again since my response was deleted) I agree with you! But as someone who did the environmental work alongside fracking, the workers don’t care. They knowingly contaminate the air, water, and soil all around them. They consider blowing benzene around their right, and it’s not killing them fast enough to change their political culture.
Water is essential to a human existence. Shouldn't ever be in the private hands of huge corporations, and everyone who owns an acre or more should be allowed to have own water well.
Harvest air conditioning condensate. Texas A&M-Doha published a paper about 10 years ago that reported the condensate collected from one campus building in the study yielded 1,600,000 gallons of water from the air conditioner units on one campus building. To make it potable, run the water through RO filters. Otherwise, the water can be used in landscaping, gardens, greenhouses or bathrooms. The water is produced onsite so there is no loss through leaking municipal water lines.
How dare you suggest a rational solution on social media! Seriously though, this sounds like a good idea. There are a lot of them out there, some as simple as using brackish water for fracking. Collecting rainwater from roofs is another. Maintaining infrastructure should be baked into local and state budgets. Require explicit, stand-alone legislation to reduce it, and just for single budget cycle.
@@Educated2Extinction Much of texas utilizes rooftop rainwater harvesting, which is illegal in california without special permission. However, it causes issues in some places as it robs the natural aquifers and springs of said rainwater which causes a whole new set of issues.
If belligerent rhetoric, embarassing legislative efforts, and excessive pollution doesn't flip the state, a healthy dose of the turquoise reality absolutely will and that's a ticking timebomb for die hard Republican voters.
@@kennardjohnson7875 I'm sorry I didn't realize that Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller wasn't enough of an inbred fart joke to use college freshmen to steal an election. You let the adults do the talking here.
@@loganskiwyse7823 St. Augustine should be banned in Texas. A well-established Bermuda lawn can get by on minimal water, if you don't insist on keeping it bright green all of the time, watering infrequently, but deeply. Another good idea would be to promote underground drip irrigation as an alternative to sprinklers.
@@Educated2Extinction I would promote a "natural" landscape instead with only native plants. Then apply landscaping techniques to how you plant things so only the water you get from storms is required for those plants to survive. I would also insist on switching to grey water toilets, that use the wastewater from showers and other activities. Grass of any sort is wasteful.
Texas does alot. We have nearly double the renewable energy output than california, our education system is far beyond california (which is second worst in the country behind missisippi) and our Hemp industry is 6x the size of california's cannabis industry.
@augustinevelajr3915 We have plenty of water in Missouri. Two deep wells, rainwater cachement, creek, fish pond, and an Air-2-Water generator that produces 5-10 gallons of potable water a day from the humidity. Water management and treatment is a hobby of mine. We have an indoor Garden Room setup with drip irrigation for our daily personal produce needs. We have composting toilets, and we recycle our grey water into an outdoor natural filtering system that drains through plants and rocks into a goldfish pond. The goldfish are thriving.
@isocarboxazid yeah all these people that moved to Texas just recently move back out now, it's happened before so you can't tell me it ain't never going to happen
There is no problem in Texas that a little bit of common-sense public-interest regulation will not solve. So for that reason, don't expect any problems to be solved in Texas.
No mention that water intensive industries are taking a larger and larger share of the drinking water in Texas - refineries - plastic manufacturing - blue hydrogen - ithium processing - computer chip manufacturing. More and more of these are coming to Texas and they are getting tax breaks and promises of plenty of water. So when they need more investment for new water sources its the residents who are told to pay up.
Stop building new homes statewide like Princeton, Texas has done. We have two brand new lakes but build more now so they can begin filling. It SUCKS that people keep moving here and I wish they'd stay where they are!! All by design...
Plenty of water in Europe, go back. That’s what you do anyway. Occupy, waste the resources and move on. Locus, in human form. This is disrespectful to the lands and its creator. That all you talk about is, money. What happened to caring for the earth and the creation??? Sure creator will have something to say about it.
False narrative. If lots of people lived more sustainably, then you wouldn’t have this problem. You don’t need fewer people , you just need to be less wasteful.
@@magesalmanac6424we need less industrial machines. They dont wanna give it up though. They like thier quads, big trucks, tractors, they want air conditioning, they want computers, golf courses, moncultre farms, feedlots, malls, race tracks, cities, indoor plumbing… They are too Civilized changed.
@magesalmanac6424 That is a big 'if' that creates a circular argument; almost every problem we have now can be solved with 'if', but everything just keeps getting worse. You cannot stop human nature.
Some of those issues aren't real, though. Some are, and people won't accept it. We are being manipulated and lied to, so we have to use discernment to see through the weeds.
California has an aqueduct from Northern Ca to South Ca to supplement their state. Texas can also build something similar (from east to west, or any direction). We could actually do it nation wide if states would come to an agreement.
hows it going with all the new people moving to texas from california? you guys were prepared no? had a plan in place for all the new people right? i mean what could go wrong if you did not have a plan in place when doing all you can to get more people to move to texas right? ya'll cant be that dumb can you?
TexasA&M predicted this in the late 1970's but the conservativs and developers ignored this . This is just a small band aid and wont solve anything but will make alot of money for a few . This does not address the very obvious misuse of water in the western USA
Hot wheels abbot and city officials are not worried, more money rigth ? I just got a proposal for an increase in property taxes because they don't have enough money...... I wonder why they allow more housing builds if they are not making our taxes stay affordable. Should more new housing equate to more people paying taxes? Is freaking business that's what it is... Ah yes now they are pretending to be willing to listen when they know more people means using more natural resources as well.
@@emjay2045no thank you I rather be able to protect myself with whatever gun I want, raise my kids how I want, not pay 1 million dollars for a house, have uncontrollable homeless, drive a gas powered car and lawn mower, be able to live without the government telling me what to do, and not have my state turn into California
Texans: We're running out of water. We need to enact conservation efforts. Texans: This is the FREE STATE of TEXAS! We would rather run out of water than give up our freedom to use water however we want.
Wrong, California is no longer in a water crisis since all the rain we got the past two years. But thanks for trying to call us out. Btw we have a lot of coastline, lots of opportunities for desalination. LA is also looking at 100% recycling for water. We also provide TAX BREAKS if you use xeriscaping.
No solutions will come about unless voters put aside the pettiness. Looking at the comments, we'll be bone dry before that happens. Leave Jr High behind.
@@crismcdonough2804 The only Texans begging anyone to move here are money hungry developers…it’s hard to stay quiet about loving where you live. Same reason illegals are flooding the borders to America because Americans brag about the country. And it’s been the greatest country for decades, democrats are changing that.
There is always a crisis that requires billions of $, isn't there? Little mention of political donor class corporate waste, is there? Also, the people complaining about overpopulation aren't mentioning a solution, are they? And nobody seems to remember weather goes in cycles, do they?
People should consider not living in deserts. States with desert climates should refrain from encouraging more people to settle there. They should halt construction that exceeds their sustainable support capacity.
Simple solution: Y'all newcomers need to move back.. I was born here 50 years ago, water was always an issue in drought years. And we get many drought years. Rain is the exception, not the norm. Look at the plant and wildlife here. The truth is we are on the edge of the Chihuahuan Desert, and that desert can strike out well into Central Texas some years. There's a reason tarantula hawks, horny toads, buffalo gourd, devils claws and many other desert creatures and plants are found here even near I35 in Central Texas. We just cannot support the population we have. It will need to roll back to at least what it was in the early 1990's or we WILL end up with a disaster soon enough. A region or population center suddenly out of water. All it would take is a really bad drought like we saw from 1949 to 1957 and a true disaster would unfold.
@@praxton so a majority coalition of democrats and RINOs has made TX a conservative utopia? If you think the spineless republicans run TX then you don't know anything.
@@timothyross7822 I live it. And guess what? It gets worse when the crops stop growing. Mind, I think it's dumber than fuqk to ship water to deserts...
Maybe executives of a couple monopolized corporations, shouldn’t be allowed to profit off damaging half the states water supply. Then again, Texas allows unregulated, unfettered capitalism. … serves them right for not educating themselves.
Where is the conversation about producing more fresh water instead of reflexively telling us to conserve? Desalination is expensive but you need what you need! Add more supply. You can’t conserve your way out of the water needs of population growth.
Texas loved it when Californians migrated there. Brought the Blue way of life with them. Sprinklers to turn more desert in to grassland. Ain't learned mother nature gonna get hers.
It's not urban growth that's killing water aquifers and rivers. It's the poor farming practices that depend on yearly field flooding and cattle over population that literally drains the rivers dry as the ranchers are putting up dams to water their heards. It is good to upgrade infrastructure, but we need to fix farming and ranching first.
Pump water back in the aquifers. Its better storage and does not evaporate. Also limit the amount of water used on farms and watering lawns. Some of these farms are wasting water on rice and other crops that should not be grown in TX
Can we not remove salt from water and turn it to fresh water ? I’m just curious the ocean is huge if we could turn ocean water to fresh water we would be set lol
@@barrydavey7188 nothing is cheap but at this point with so many places with a scarcity with water may be the best option and a better place for out taxes than what they actually are using our money for just saying.
It's not expensive either. This technology has been around for many years. They wont go the salt water route because they make more money b*tching about the problem. Elon musk exposes this issue well and even he has technology to do this...
WE have access to water, but we have to tap the under used places. There is a lot of water in the northwest US, move that water south to California. But water from California from the Western slopes of Colorado and Wyoming, send that water through the Arkansas river and then pipe it from there. You can also pump from the Mississippi watershed. But it will be VERY expensive, Very Expensive. Outside of the box. Build "mountains" to force the storms in the Gulf further west so the water can be gathered over a larger area of Texas and not just the eastern side. Again a LOT of money
Maybe they shouldn't have allowed fracking... once a water table is contaminated with fracking chemicals that's it. Say goodbye to that water table for the next 1000 years it's no longer drinkable.
Except for the destructive chemicals it takes to create these man made clouds, and rains. There are consequences to implementing these manipulation practices.
Make a water pipeline connected between East Texas and West Texas along with water retention ponds. It is not that whole Texas has no water, but some locations have too much storm and rain. Just need to redistribute. That will boost pipeline industry as well, which normally work with oil and gas industry.
@magesalmanac6424 your like a pest we can't get rid off !! Instead of coming to our state why don't you go to Montana they have plenty of space there 😁
