{"id":7854,"date":"2014-01-10T10:32:59","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T15:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7854"},"modified":"2014-01-10T10:32:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T15:32:59","slug":"fresh-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=7854","title":{"rendered":"FRESH WATER"},"content":{"rendered":"

People have been saying for years that water will become more expensive than oil; and more valuable. The signals have been here for a long time. \u00a0Most of the population either chooses not to acknowledge the impending problem and are willing to “kick the can down the road” or truly ignorant of the problem.<\/p>\n

Following the 1968 Transatlantic race, the longest I ever sailed; I returned home in late July and needed to find a summer job before returning to school. I did find a job, on a boat that could not keep help. It was a powerboat, 55 foot Chris Craft. The water tanks held over 500 gallons. On the weekends, tied to the dock I simply had the hose in the fill port turned on and could barely keep up with the consumption. \u00a0It was the first shocking revelation of \u00a0total disregard of water use. \u00a0Remember I had just returned from 27 days at sea on a sailboat with a crew of 8 on which we used under 100 gallons of water.<\/p>\n

check out : Peter McBride “Chasing Water”<\/a><\/p>\n

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Colorado River Drought Forces a Painful Reckoning for States<\/h1>\n
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By\u00a0MICHAEL WINES<\/a>

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To help the Colorado, federal authorities this year will for the first time reduce the water flow into Lake Mead, the nation\u2019s largest reservoir, created by Hoover Dam.\u00a0Jim Wilson\/The New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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LAKE MEAD, Nev. \u2014 The sinuous Colorado River and its slew of man-made reservoirs from the Rockies to southern Arizona are being sapped by 14 years of drought nearly unrivaled in 1,250 years.<\/p>\n

The once broad and blue river has in many places dwindled to a murky brown trickle. Reservoirs have shrunk to less than half their capacities, the canyon walls around them ringed with white mineral deposits where water once lapped. Seeking to stretch their allotments of the river, regional water agencies are recycling sewage effluent, offering rebates to tear up grass lawns and subsidizing less thirsty appliances from dishwashers to shower heads.<\/p>\n

But many experts believe the current drought is only the harbinger of a new, drier era in which the Colorado\u2019s flow will be substantially and permanently diminished.<\/p>\n