@ProPublica Missing from this story is any sense of how much time remains before any important aquifers are entirely depleted. I realize it’s a complex situation, but people need to know how much time remains to solve the problem. Are we talking about 2 years, 10 years, 100 years, 1000 years or what?

@ProPublica One I'm going to read --
With our cleverness we've taken pure groundwater out, where it can't be replaced in many centuries, polluted it in every way, sent it downriver & back into the water cycle, possibly even got the planet off-balance.
When farmers hear the water table's dropping, they pump faster to get it before the other guy.
We sell land /water rights for other countries to grow .. their cattlefeed !
[Saudi, UAE]
Truly, madly, deeply priceless !

#dystopia
#environment

@ProPublica And now we add the crazy water waste of data centres, especially for AI ... https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/04/how_datacenters_use_water/

@gerrymcgovern

#AI #datacenters #water#drinkingWater

@ProPublica Lack of potable water has seemed the greatest global threat for decades.