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1. Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2019 14:14:31 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

   • Coco

   @pony @lain Furthermore, many of the water sources that we've been relying on have come from underground aquifers. We're certainly depleting *that* at a far higher rate than we're finding alternatives https://www.wri.org/blog/2013/05/new-study-raises-question-what-don-t-we-know-about-water-scarcity

   The research I've read has pointed to water scarcity being one of the biggest threats of our lifetimes, but it hasn't hit in a way that's obvious quite yet to the average person because the effects aren't hitting most people in industrial western areas.

   • Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@octodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2019 14:16:47 UTC Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Coco

     @pony @lain For example in the US, most food is grown in the midwest or in California, the latter of which was primarily desert which was incapable of growing the kind of food it has been until recently. But that water has been primarily diverted from the northern part of the state to the southern part, and it looks like that strategy isn't sustainable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California