The water crisis is something that can be fixed with a single large angry mob, so it will go away after the first instance of mass water rationing. Either the state governments fix their dumb water use laws, or people forcibly reroute some irrigation ditches.
The Colorado River rationing went into affect on the first. Farmers will be losing fields. Even with LV and other cities slowing accepting lawns are not capable of growing in the desert there's not enough water. It would take years of rationing to restore the shed.
A mob rising up and municipalities caving to them or digging irrigation channels will empty reservoirs even faster. The shed is nearly broken and constantly going from droughts to floods is not restoring it. Nor is continued loss of snow caps.
One third of Earth's surface water will be gone by 2060, and the Ogallala aquifer might not last until then either. This is a law of nature thing, not a bad policy that direct action could fix immediately
The water crisis is something that can be fixed with a single large angry mob, so it will go away after the first instance of mass water rationing. Either the state governments fix their dumb water use laws, or people forcibly reroute some irrigation ditches.
The Colorado River rationing went into affect on the first. Farmers will be losing fields. Even with LV and other cities slowing accepting lawns are not capable of growing in the desert there's not enough water. It would take years of rationing to restore the shed.
A mob rising up and municipalities caving to them or digging irrigation channels will empty reservoirs even faster. The shed is nearly broken and constantly going from droughts to floods is not restoring it. Nor is continued loss of snow caps.
Point is the climate crises is now.
One third of Earth's surface water will be gone by 2060, and the Ogallala aquifer might not last until then either. This is a law of nature thing, not a bad policy that direct action could fix immediately