Young people thinking about careers may find opportunities in helping solve problems of water scarcity. An article raises the alarm about declining water resources.
Main point: “We’ve essentially drained the nation’s two largest reservoirs because, despite all our Band-Aids, use remains far greater than what the Colorado River can now produce.”
More about it:
- “…many considered 1,020 feet the last buffer against a system crash. Fall below that point, the warning went, and the lake would never recover.”
- “…if we don’t agree to cut more use – and a lot of it – we’ll cross that once-uncrossable line by the end of next year.”
- “if inflow is similar in 2023 to what we got in 2022, we’ll need to stop using an additional 2.5 million acre-feet of water, over and above the cuts to which we’ve already agreed, to stop Lake Mead from plunging past 1,020 feet.”
Why it matters:
- “We can finally do what it takes to keep the lakes functional, or we can lessen the pain, for now, and obliterate what little storage we have left.”
- “No matter which future plays out, we’ll all use a lot less water.”
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