Georgia's going dry -- and we're not talking liquor stores. Record temperatures in Georgia and a long drought have left many Georgia cities wondering when the taps will run dry.
Some towns have only a few weeks of water left, while
rivers near Athens have nearly dried up. A
broken water main hasn't helped the problem, and some fear that the University of Georgia campus there may
shut down for lack of water. What's more,
Atlanta itself is already feeling the pressure, as Lake Lanier, a water source for 3 million residents,
falls by 1.5 feet per week and has only a three month supply remaining. While there have been
more severe (pdf) droughts in Georgia's history, rising population numbers have increased demand to now unsustainable levels.
posted by InnocentBystander
on Oct 13, 2007 -
75 comments
Global warming approaching point of no return...Climate change: report warns point of no return may be reached in 10 years, leading to droughts, agricultural failure and water shortages. The possibilities include reaching climatic tipping points leading, for example, to the loss of the West Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets (which, between them, could raise sea level more than 10 metres over the space of a few centuries), the shutdown of the thermohaline ocean circulation (and, with it, the Gulf Stream), and the transformation of the planet's forests and soils from a net sink of carbon to a net source of carbon.
Countdown to global catastrophe
posted by y2karl
on Jan 24, 2005 -
80 comments
