• Transporter Room 3@startrek.website
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      9 months ago

      Yeah, but they’ve been sucking that thing dry for centuries, surely after centuries of careless use, rampant wastefulness, pollution and countless other things, you aren’t suggesting that water sources can deplete!

      If I cover a cup with my hand and keep drinking, I won’t know when it’s out of water, therefore it will never run out! Its brilliant.

      Also if I can’t see you, you can’t see me.

      Flawless logic…

      I’ve literally heard people say groundwater can’t rub out because it still rains…

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        I’ve literally heard people say groundwater can’t rub out because it still rains…

        Lol those people should take a geology class. Useful idiots, all of them.

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        I’ve literally heard people say groundwater can’t rub out because it still rains…

        Depends on what you’re drawing from. If you’re talking about somewhere like Denmark with tons of groundwater because of porous valleys, that’s pretty much true (though you can certainly use so much of it that the rain won’t replenish it, similar to surface water). Fossil aquifers like ogallala, not so much.

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      9 months ago

      I’m genuinely surprised that nothing has changed after no effort was made to change things. The fuck?

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        To many oeople see federal regulations as evil so they only the states to handle it. Then you have people that just want to kick it down the road. Lastly a lit of people just cant care about an indirect invisable threat

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    9 months ago

    Is almost like concentrating so much of our population and our agriculture in the desert is a bad idea. Yeah the weather sucks in my part of the country and the only thing that grows here is corn and soybeans but we have an excess of water.

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      9 months ago

      Other things grow, but corn and soybeans are heavily subsidised (not to mention genetically modified).

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        9 months ago

        As someone who has gardened in the western US and gardened in the east, there is a difference between growing and growing well. Lots of things around here are grown in greenhouses to help mitigate environmental challenges.