Colorado land buys raise water speculation fears

[rcjordan]

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article203432159.html

[Mackin USA]

WARS will be fought over WATER

[rcjordan]

Coca-Cola, Nestle seek to privatize world's second largest aquifer

https://inhabitat.com/coca-cola-nestle-seek-to-privatize-worlds-second-largest-aquifer/

[rcjordan]

A must-read:

A Kingdom from Dust

https://story.californiasunday.com/resnick-a-kingdom-from-dust

[ergophobe]

WARS will be fought over WATER

That is the WRONG verb tense


http://www.newsweek.com/us-isis-war-water-syria-rebels-retreat-army-advance-578625
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/is-a-lack-of-water-to-blame-for-the-conflict-in-syria-72513729/

[buckworks]

>> A Kingdom from Dust

In my lifetime alone, California has gone from 13 million people to 40 million people. Nothing will stop the houses.

[Mackin USA]

Stewart Resnick owns the "Wonderful" company.
Saw a recent documentary on Kern County water.

[ergophobe]

This is related - at 4 degrees of warming, the CO River is dry
http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/a-map-shows-what-happens-when-our-world-gets-four-degrees-warmer.html

Another must read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Desert
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001RTKIUA/ref=as_li_ss_tl?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1&linkCode=ll1&tag=ultraskiercom-20&linkId=5765be9bbefa42ed577011237d86b77d

[rcjordan]

EG mentioned this in the Cape Town thread

Welcome snow slows California's plunge back to drought

Near-record rain last year snapped the drought, only to have this winter's rainy season land as a dud. By February, nearly half the state — all of it in Southern California, home to more than half of residents — was back in drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor.

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900012025/welcome-snow-slows-california-s-plunge-back-to-drought.html