@bathina wrote:
People who think this is only going to happen in California are deluding themselves. The smug "I wouldn't live there" will certainly come back to bite you. Never sit back on your laurels because climate change is impacting everyone. And power outages, water shortages, fires and flooding are coming to a state near you.
@bathina Water shortages are a complex topic.
First, we have non-recharging aquifers that have dried up and will never recover.
We have "water barons" buying up land and eventually will control usage and price to consumers. Privatization of water companies - another factor coupled with water barons make for a diminishing supply.
We still have decades of chemical plants dumping toxic waste into water ways; those chemicals do not simply wash away. While SOME regulations have diminished water pollution by industry, it still goes on without full checks.
We have, even on this board, people moaning that they won't give up their landscaping no matter the reason. Even assigning watering days for home landscaping is just a cute way of appeasing those, like myself, who want to get rid of frivolous landscaping. It doesn't work for me.
What works, in my neck of the woods, is the call to get involved in our water supply.
Workshops on how to make your landscaping sensible with low or no water designs.
People are unwilling to change and that causes just as much if not more problems regarding our water. I understand people grow gardens for food and that's fine. I did it for years myself.
But to say one won't give up LANDSCAPING and change because the problem won't affect them in the future-well it makes one want to spit.
And don't be fooled by saying "I have a well" because wells can dry up. Having a well doesn't give one carte blanche to use water foolishly.
States that have water collection restrictions and/or banning-rain barrels on homeowner propertys are frowned upon and there goes another way of conserving water.
We turn on our faucets and assume all will be well. It won't be and it's true-ALL OF US are facing the effects of climate change; whether directly or indirectly.
However, I draw the line at some of the hysteria out there because *some* have made a mockery of those of us who have been involved since the first Earth Day.
When misinformation it spewed, those who have not kept up just believe it all.
Instead of discussing and actually working on change, they follow blindly without a clue.
At least in my area (and I'm sure throughout the state) those workshops are a start; when our water bill comes in there is always a newsletter about conservation.
It isn't all climate change, it isn't all water barons/private water companies and it isn't all the average person.
It's all of it.
"" Compassion is a verb."-Thich Nhat Hanh
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