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15 Feb ’12
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wonder how the land looked after the jungle season
6 Oct ’15
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interesting quick read...a bit concerning.
http://www.usgs.gov/.....k1VhKQo4f0
The Ogallala Aquifer.
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K, farmboy215 Feb ’12
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not good when a lot of food comes from that area
6 Oct ’15
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Well that area is the Bread Basket, which is akin to the Southern California fruit & veggie production...water is needed for food production. With the population of the USA/world growing, there is only increased demand for potable water and crops...seems like we are in a tail spin.
At least we get good rain and snowfall here in the North East...if worse came to worse we can save the rain on the metal barn and house roof into a cistern...would take care of us, some animals and the gardens.
15 Feb ’12
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part of the reason we put the pond in, I really need to drill a well
15 Feb ’12
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slightly disturbing visual
6 Oct ’15
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Well,,, China is buying coal from Alaska by the ship full, also buying unprocessed timber form north west and western Canada...more resources going out the door.
There are a number of reservoirs in the general region here...there have been rumors that if things got really bad that there are some local groups that have a plan to destroy the dams in order to flood out people and get rid of fresh water sources to make the area more difficult to live in and to keep people away.
Scary stuff.
15 Feb ’12
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pigs versus people, who wins?
TRIBUNE, Kan. (AP) — Only 1,200 people live in Kansas' smallest county, where using irrigation to quench thirsty crops is no longer an option for many because the water source underneath this flat, arid prairie is nearly exhausted due to decades of overuse.
Recognizing that economic development was at a standstill, county residents narrowly voted five years ago to allow corporate hog-feeding operations to move in and bolster the tax base in the county that abuts Colorado and is named after New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley of "Go West, young man" fame. A second feeding operation was just approved by the state.
It's a significant tradeoff: Kansas-based Seaboard Foods is now the county's top taxpayer, with the nation's second-largest hog feeding operation accounting for roughly 9 percent of its tax base.
Though the thousands of hogs require less water than it would take to irrigate crops, the company is pumping wells that had been idled for a decade. Environmentalists and some residents fear that instead of preserving the remaining water for residents, the county will be a desert once the hogs and the water are long gone.
"We are selling our natural resources for short-term gain," said Larry Pridey, who shut down his irrigation wells in the 1990s and only gets four gallons of water a minute from his newly drilled household well.
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