The science behind why the world is getting wetter: on.wsj.com/3ygp7so

@who2u333

9 күн бұрын

The world in some areas is getting wetter. Apparently one of those area is not Western Kansas.

@leviahimsa

9 күн бұрын

Save 1,100 gallons of water EVERY DAY when you choose vegan. 💦

@PodcastOnTheSpectrum

9 күн бұрын

So why is evey wsj video comment section filled with bots and the clueless?

@SagittarianArrows

8 күн бұрын

3 Angels' Message return to God of peace. STOP YOUR WARRING MENTALITY. Wrath of the Lord will be unleashed.

@drx1xym154

8 күн бұрын

@@leviahimsa - um, no and they often have to clear cut forest and jungle to grow your vegetables. The issues are many, yet sustainable agriculture is the way forward. Industrial agriculture - for anything - cows, corn or lettuce, kale, etc... often had many hidden costs. Cows and other herd animals can live off more scrub and pigs can live off of scraps (also why the meat has to be fully cooked!). Also many animals are killed to support the vegan diet. Jungle is also destroyed ... please do some actual research. Confirmation bias helps no one - not even you.

I’m confident that our great nation will recognize the urgency of the groundwater situation, and proceed to do nothing.

@Aendavenau

10 күн бұрын

To do anything is socialism after all :)

@FourDollaRacing

9 күн бұрын

Yes our thoughts and prayers go out to the farmers and good luck...

@biocular

9 күн бұрын

@@FourDollaRacing Oh, we won't be far behind them. No need for prayers; tell him face to face.

@GrimReaperNegi

8 күн бұрын

Here, here! But they will blame the consumer for it somehow...

@DgurlSunshine

8 күн бұрын

@@GrimReaperNegi STOP SHOPPING

Stop using corn as fuel.

@stevenirby5576

10 күн бұрын

💯 Makes no sense that we do that.

@yuanruichen2564

10 күн бұрын

Stops eating so much of it

@ccrose1

10 күн бұрын

Use sunflowers

@jayjya

10 күн бұрын

@@stevenirby5576it did, at the time

@kchididdy

10 күн бұрын

@@yuanruichen2564 It's not even nutritious. Switch to oats to keep them colons clean.

“Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realize we cannot eat money.”

@RyanBanman

6 күн бұрын

Grow up. Its not just about the big boogey man of 'corporate greed'. You know these big corporations are rich becuade of you, and me, and everyone in this comment section? They make the food we eat, clothes we wear, and tools and toys to whom we dish out and go into debt for.

@andyjohnson3790

5 күн бұрын

​@@RyanBanmanso true, and they also exploit every single penny that they can get out of the environment and consumers while paying lobbyists to relax the rules and lawyers to lower penalties when they break the rules. Almost every company on Wall Street is considered too big to fail today and government protected

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

@@RyanBanman Not to mention big screen Chinese TV's and big pickups and SUV's?

@chazlabreck

4 күн бұрын

​@@RyanBanmanyou have been trained to blame the victims

@janettomlin950

4 күн бұрын

So stupid! It reminds me of the Dr. Seuss book about the loss of trees

Meanwhile, huge corporations, like Coke, use as much groundwater as they want for free.

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

True, but I suspect in some states they are charged for the water and that coke locates it's plants in areas with ample water. Perhaps more ironic is that we have that sweetened water shipped to our local grocer and pay for it...and if it's Dasani , it's just plain.

@hurrdurrmurrgurr

9 күн бұрын

@@acm116 Coke locates its plants wherever is most profitable, they don't care about the water supply. Case in point are the bottling plants in Mexico draining the already stressed aquifer beneath Mexico City.

@DgurlSunshine

8 күн бұрын

AS DO THE CRYPTO MINING DATA CENTERS!

@DgurlSunshine

8 күн бұрын

@@acm116 CROOKS

@Abit_Aloof

7 күн бұрын

Actually the water used in making drinks pales in comparison to the water used in agriculture

When ground water is gone, its GONE! It takes lifetimes to replenish, especially if the aquifer subsides.

@jneuf861

10 күн бұрын

Here in Northern Mexico they're drilling over 1000ft

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

That's not entirely true. With some aquifers it takes years, with others hours. It all depends on the composition of the soil and bedrock above the aquifer.

@social3ngin33rin

10 күн бұрын

100k-millions of years for the largest ones...and that's when humans aren't using it

@hurrdurrmurrgurr

9 күн бұрын

@@acm116 Where are you getting hours from, the aquifer can't fill faster than the amount of rain hitting the ground and the ground has saturation limits where it needs time to seep through while the water above it runs off.

@DgurlSunshine

8 күн бұрын

CONCENTRATED POISONS LINE THE AQUIFER NOW LEACHING

When groundwater aquifers are pumped down the water bearing strata can compress so that it loses its ability to hold water even if water use is reduced below the recharge rate. Once the aquifer is wrecked, it's wrecked for good. Most of this water is actually fossil water anyway that took thousands of years to accumulate and recharge rates are extremely slow. It doesn't make much sense to grow water intensive crops like cotton and alfalfa in the desert anyway and we sure shouldn't be exporting alfalfa to Saudia Arabia.

@briskettacos

5 күн бұрын

Ron, please take care of yourself. Eat well, sleep enough, and go to your doctor. We're going to need people like you to rebuild civilization when everything finally collapses.

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

If we stop selling alfalfa to the Saudis, how will we be able to afford big screen Chinese TV's and big pickups and SUV's?

@ekkehard8

4 күн бұрын

​@@whazzat8015 Chinese goods are really cheap. You should complain about the chinese companies we have bailing out with taxpayer money for some reason.

@fladave99

4 күн бұрын

THIS IS TOTAL BS. FARMING WATER filters BACK TO THE AQUIFER YEA, SHUT THE FARMS. BUILD CONDOS The water is being SOLD to CHINA and NESTLES and water bottlers which REMOVES THE WATER from the area. Whatta load of H S Our aquifers are 7 time LARGER than all the oceans on earth

@Themrine2013

4 күн бұрын

that isnt true at all

Maybe, stop corn subsidies.

@levismith7444

10 күн бұрын

Growing corn to make ethanol the biggest waste of water I can think of

@CaseNumber00

10 күн бұрын

I was thinking of finding the foreign companies that exist and work in the US and send the majority of their crops back to that country. I worked out in the desert of CA for a few months and asked around about questions of the area. A few farms around the area were own by very wealthy Middle Eastern, grew alfalfa, a very thirsty crop, and shipped it back exclusively to the middle east just for horses. At the time, they paid rock bottom rates for access to the water, heard its different now but they still are paying a bargain. It wouldnt be surprising China has a few farms like this.

@LuciusSullaCornelius

10 күн бұрын

@@levismith7444 In 2024 maybe biodiesel consumes more corn than ethanol, I don't know in the States but probably worldwide.

@josepheridu3322

9 күн бұрын

Stop the 10 types of fake vegetable milk sold in markets.

@leviahimsa

9 күн бұрын

Animal agriculture is the biggest consumer of corn/maize and soy.

The funniest part is how much food the US wastes

@kpz4936

10 күн бұрын

And how much it exports to the world.

@justayoutuber1906

10 күн бұрын

funny?

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

That's an indicator of our affluence. We do waste a lot of food, most before it ever gets to the consumer.

@DgurlSunshine

8 күн бұрын

@@acm116 CORPORATE WASTE IS SELF EVIDENT. THEY WILL TRASH GOOD FOOD AND LET PEOPLE STARVE

@alexg9727

5 күн бұрын

the funniest thing is liberals think corn fuel will save the environment

People don't understand the situation at all. They see farmers using too much water, and they look no farther. History tells us that prior to the "invasion" by Europeans, America was home to hundreds of millions of beavers. They inhabited rivers, creeks, and streams across the country, even in areas that are deserts today. Roughly ten percent of north America was covered by beaver-created wetlands. Beavers were hunted almost to extinction, and when they were gone, the wetlands disappeared. So did billions of birds, fish, and other wildlife that depended upon the wetlands. It was only then that agriculture stripped the land and began depleting the already disappearing groundwater. Now, with modern agriculture sucking all the water out of the ground, and no beavers to help to replenish that groundwater, the earth is drying up and will in time turn to desert. Why is it so hard for people to understand that America needs to harvest water? We need to reestablish wetlands. Property owners should be paid for harvesting water and for creating wetlands on their land. It isn't rocket science. It is just plain old common sense, but people don't see it. It is possible to restore groundwater, and it is possible to restore badly degraded lands. The only other option is to continue degrading the land and using all the water until it is gone. Sadly, America will likely take the easy route to destruction. We rarely do the right thing anymore because that requires effort and dedication.

@JackjackTheThird

8 күн бұрын

Same with the buffalo and their grazing patterns.

@burnshirtvalleyfarm6337

7 күн бұрын

Its hard to quantify the solution even when the solution is so eloquently stated. We are a country of addicts, Drugs, experiences, and goods. We will defend our right to our "lifestyle" until we die and the saddest thing is we dont even want the system we have. We are not happy with this life. But as with the Oxy epidemic it is forced onto us for the 1% to profit.

@bpbpbpbpbpbp

6 күн бұрын

It’s not effort and dedication keeping things that desperately need to be done from being done. It’s corruption. Almost every representative and elected official has interest in the wellbeing of the ultra wealthy.

@markislivingdeliberately

6 күн бұрын

We think we can beat nature. Scientists and politicians think we can solve anything, but earth and nature as a whole are smarter than us by billions of years. Can’t work against nature. Use how nature works and design your farms around what’s best for nature and you’ll have more abundance than you know what to do with. But we won’t have as many corn and soy products. But at least we all won’t be sick fat and killing earth too.

@lucybecker8

5 күн бұрын

And requires education.

Because most of our crops aren't food for people.

@Frank-pq7ff

5 күн бұрын

If they were crops for people we would need double the farmland we use now.

@TK0_23_

4 күн бұрын

But we don't grow it and just throw it away. We use those crops for something.

@TheHonestPeanut

4 күн бұрын

@@TK0_23_ no it's literally thrown out. This isn't a secret. It's not hard to find sources. AFBF, NASDA, USDA, third party data studies. Just look.

@TurboLoveTrain

3 күн бұрын

​@@Frank-pq7ff this isn't true at all--this is a lie corporate farms have been telling since the 1900s. Permaculture has demonstrated, undeniably, that monoculture can not compete with permaculture for food output. We use monoculture because it makes it easier for the banks and Monsanto to control farms and farmers: Not because it give us higher food output than the alternatives. Imagine living in a world where if the farmers didn't like the policies the city centers forced on them they could simply stop feeding the cities--that's why we use monoculture, cities are parasitic and it would become very obvious if farmers cut the leash of corporate farming methods.

So industry farming companies been abusing underground water in this country like it's unlimited resource, when in fact it is a very real limited resource. This can't continue.

@divesaildivesss

10 күн бұрын

It's the tragedy of the commons.

@kchididdy

10 күн бұрын

Yes, and they profit by robbing future generations. If we factored in environmental externalities, water would be much more expensive and we might use it more efficiently. Free market mechanics works but we need to price things correctly.

@CircusInto

9 күн бұрын

Very American I would say

@iqbalindaryono8984

9 күн бұрын

​@@divesaildivessswhat commons? Only the people farming are using it on an unsustainable rate

@astebbin

9 күн бұрын

@@iqbalindaryono8984Google “Tragedy of the Commons,” this is a textbook case

There are also foreign nations buying farm land, growing water intensive crops and shipping them overseas.

@RedCurlyQ1

7 күн бұрын

There is not nearly enough concern or awareness about this, it’s terrifying.

@s._3560

5 күн бұрын

Blaming other countries again. Why don't farmers stop growing and over-using so much ground water to produce excess food to sell for money? Why not stop turning forests into farmland ? Why not stop placing so many dams on your Colorado and Columbia rivers and let them flood the plains?

@mertonallowicious

5 күн бұрын

I hit like on your comment and watched the number of thumbs up stay the same… amazed yours is still up

@grsafran

5 күн бұрын

Yes it is called capitalism. Are you some kind of Communist who thinks governments should interfere, if not just shut up already. This is how capitalism works.

@Heterogeneity

5 күн бұрын

Right? Saudi is growing alfalfa in the Arizona desert with free groundwater.

The US government subsidizes a lot of these farmers and their agricultural products. Doesn’t that distort the market and encourage more inefficient water use?

@SK-lt1so

9 күн бұрын

Do you want to eat?

@Osiris02

9 күн бұрын

​@@SK-lt1so Yes, I want to eat in the future too so we need to stop growing to excess and wasting it.

@DgurlSunshine

8 күн бұрын

ASJ CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE. THEY IMPORT FOOD TO THE USA

@DgurlSunshine

8 күн бұрын

@@SK-lt1so TRY A GARDEN

@DgurlSunshine

8 күн бұрын

@@Osiris02 MONO-CROP-CULTURE IS UNSUSTAINABLE

I just got back from Phoenix after having worked in Arizona ten years ago. Phoenix is rapidly spreading like a malignant cancer across the desert. Even after decades of warnings about looming water shortages, and after year after year of rising temperatures, you drive through mile after mile after mile of new strip malls and low density housing. Visiting Phoenix is like watching the first twenty minutes of a post apocalyptic horror film. You know the end is coming soon soon and you know that it’ll be brutal, and you just can’t bring yourself to look away.

@JetSkiSuper7

8 күн бұрын

That darn booming economy in Phoenix fuels the population growth. I lived there in the early ‘90’s and at that time, 10,000 people per month were moving there.

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

Can't yell "Get off my lawn" with no lawn.

@prodigalpriest

3 күн бұрын

Well you can, but you'll look ridiculous doing it. 😅

We MUST stop subsidizing unsustainable products! I am looking at you, Corn, Ethanol

@paulanderson3349

7 күн бұрын

The farm bill is being debated right now. Call your federal representatives and urge them to cut baseline funding for farm subsidies and crop insurance subsidies. (the relevant agencies are Farm Service Agency, Risk Management Agency, and Natural Resource and Conservation service) There are some groups trying to increase funding for crop insurance subsidies. We need to cut them, not increase them.

farming is not the problem, industry farming is

@djayjp

10 күн бұрын

Pasture fed is much, much more environmentally destructive than factory farming. Both are horrible.

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

Perhaps...how are you defining "industry farming?" The producers portrayed in this video were family farmers, doing their best to raise crops and make a living. It's not as if Cargill owns a bunch of farms and tractors. Agricultural production is rather fragmented business.

@TimothyCHenderson

8 күн бұрын

@@acm116 Indeed. The vast majority of farms in the US are still owned by individual producers.

@parwinder2930

8 күн бұрын

8 billions are the real problem

@lewishamilton9577

6 күн бұрын

​@@djayjpEeerr, no. Your wrong. Been in the industry for many years. Big difference between a variety of naturally grazed herbivores on an organic setup an a large industrial CAFO. You've some research to do if that's what you truly believe.

Regenerative agriculture replenishes aquifers. People are practicing it across Africa to stop the Sahara desert from spreading into the Sahel.

Maybe we need to rethink growing corn to raise cows.

@doubles1545

10 күн бұрын

Yep. It’s much healthier in every way to raise livestock on native grasses. Not farmed grains.

@greggpon7466

10 күн бұрын

Don't forget raising corn for transportation ethanol.🙄

@AdamBechtol

10 күн бұрын

mmmmm

@johndoh5182

10 күн бұрын

Maybe we need to rethink growing corn to power vehicles which is FAR worse. We haven't been a food superpower since we thought it was a good idea, or at least the politicians in the corn belt thought it was a good idea to raise corn for fuel. The US used to be a main producer of wheat, feeding a lot of the world until we made that shift for ethanol. And now Ukraine and Russia are the wheat basket and Russia is trying to take Ukraine and the last thing ANY American should want is Putin controlling a large percentage of the world's grain.

@johndoh5182

10 күн бұрын

@@doubles1545 Most cattle ARE raised on pasture. They're finished off at large feed lots with grain to put fat into their meat. Chicken is WAY worse than cattle. And good luck with that whole "native grasses" thing. Even when cattle are on pasture, most farmers don't use tactics that would allow for most native grasses to do well. The reason why those grasses existed before Caucasians came to America is buffalo roamed very widely giving the earth time to recover, and horses didn't live in the Americas. There's regenerate agriculture farming, using cattle on pasture and rotating them into different sections so they don't overgraze any area, and then they tend to be followed with chicken on the same pasture, where the chickens will then scratch through the cow dung and eat the grubs of flies giving them protein and spreading that dung out which is better for the grasses. THOSE farmers can get native grasses growing pretty well, but whatever it is they have growing in pasture is what's best for cattle.

In the United States there is insufficient recognition of “us” or “community” and too much emphasis on “me”. The pendulum can swing the other way, but on this issue a broad community approach is needed. (Good luck with that.)

It's a good thing the EPA allowed fracking fluid to be pumped into some of our underground aquifers. God forbid we might try to use that water in the future. This way we don't have to worry about it!

This land used to be farmed for winter wheat, which it produced well, profitably, and without irrigation. A false economy driven by free groundwater and cheap capital allowed them to develop it well beyond its true ecological niche. I call that bad management; if we have a capitalism that can make you rich, we need one that can bankrupt you as well. Price the groundwater as a limited public resource open to minimum bid and competitive pressure.

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

Winter wheat is good, along with forage. some of that land in the west should never be plowed, only grazed.

@Shanaseeya

7 күн бұрын

And alot of Americans now have digestive breakdown leading to disease from the wheat boom that no one acknowledges. Yes can still happen if your protein source is being fed wheat.

We started having water shortage issues about the same time Americans started accepting buying bottled water...coincidence maybe🤔?

Nothing will be done until it is too late..

@LostMySauce

9 күн бұрын

America: We'll let the next generation handle that.

@davidsalo8397

8 күн бұрын

Politics and economics will ensure that.

@secretagentcat

8 күн бұрын

you all can go out, but you're afraid to physically put in an effort. americans who see this stuff should be up in arms.

Fix this for our childrens children, not just ourselves. For the bees, for the birds, for the animals 😢

Don't use ethanol as a Fuel.

@tylerk24

10 күн бұрын

Don’t have people mine for lithium for electric cars.

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

I don't have a problem with using ethanol as a fuel - it burns cleaner, is renewable, etc. (just ask Brazil). But corn is a very inefficient crop for ethanol production.

@AndrewJeffersonCotter

10 күн бұрын

It's bad for your engine@@acm116

The world needs to use drip irrigation, instead of spraying.

@jimdotcom1972

10 күн бұрын

you're going to drip irrigate and entire corn field? drip irrigation is more practical for some crops than others.

@themiddlekingdom9121

10 күн бұрын

@@jimdotcom1972 That what the Israeli people have been using drip irrigation for years. As long as in the world's people want to save water like the Israelis, I bet they can do it, including the U S A.

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

@@jimdotcom1972 Yep! That is easy to do. Subsurface irrigation is commonly used on corn and many other crops. I would argue that drip irrigation is practical for all crops.

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

@@themiddlekingdom9121 You are absolutely correct. The Israelis are the leaders in water conservation and irrigation.

@kchididdy

10 күн бұрын

Ultimately, that won't even matter because water is lost to transpiration (water evaporates from leaves).

This can be fixed: - Feed cows naturally, don't use corn or other crops. Let them eat grass. - Stop growing corn to make Ethanol for car fuel - Stop eating so much meat, grow crops that you can eat without going the extra step (plant -> feeds human. Not: plant -> feeds animal -> feeds human) - Stop using groundwater, use rainwater or rivers instead - Build new canals to get water from rivers to your farms

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

I like your first two suggestions! If we get ruminants to consume grass then we won't have to worry about #3. Using above ground water (#4) is a bit tricky - usually the state regulates above ground water, especially water from rivers, and if the river goes from one state to another, then that complicates it even further. Just look at the Rio Grande - the amount of irrigation used depletes it to the point it is not much more than a trickle in Texas. Regarding #5, (a) canals are expensive, (b) canals can allow species to move from one body of water to another, which can be an ecological disaster, and (c) moving water from one watershed to another opens many environmental arguments and potential problems. But, you are correct - "this can be fixed."

@andrewchatterton8594

10 күн бұрын

@@acm116#3 is by far the most important, I’m not vegan or anything but animal agriculture uses something like 85% of land/water of all agriculture in us and only provided like 10% of calories. Also to make the same amount of beef as we currently eat in the us you would need a land area equivalent to all of north and South America of pastures lol

@pyroman2918

9 күн бұрын

Exactly. We don't need everyone to go vegan, it's enough if we just reduce meat consumption by half for example. It's even healthier

@juha9703

9 күн бұрын

Why would we need cows in the first place? To give people cancer and million other diseases?

@Gnomezonbacon

9 күн бұрын

dig dirt embankments around your fields to trap more rainwater at the surface and encourage puddle formation at the surface.

We farm on the southern Texas Panhandle. Our part of the aquifer is basically pumped dry. It’s sad our entire economy is dependent on it.

@lewishamilton9577

6 күн бұрын

Like oil. But noone wants to hear about peak oil. And what it really means. Too many remain ignorant / willfully ignorant. Modern industrial way of life is on its way out. And quicker than most think. That's if they think about it at all. Most just complain about the price of everything going up. And tell government to do something about it. Yeh, that'll work.

@jameskamotho7513

6 күн бұрын

​@@lewishamilton9577If you say this to people, they tell you that you are 'negative'...

@roblowe8295

5 күн бұрын

⁠​⁠@@lewishamilton9577 peak oil was debunked a decade ago.

@lewishamilton9577

5 күн бұрын

@@roblowe8295 by who praytel.?.

@roblowe8295

5 күн бұрын

@@lewishamilton9577 by the oil riggers in Texas finding once empty oil pockets completely refilled within the Span of a a decade. To further shove the nail in the coffin on this, peak oil has been declared a multitude of times, time and time again we found it it’s bogus. So yes, peak oil has been debunked, several times in fact.

California has taken action on aquifer conservation and management but no one is happy about it, especially farmers. Really tough decision making.

@iceboyo4

8 күн бұрын

It's really not tough though, we recognize the Tragedy of the Commons in fishing and harvesting other natural resources, why shouldn't we with water? It's super clear that regardless of farmers current happiness with it, that overall it's good for them.

@SolaceEasy

8 күн бұрын

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@the-asylum

8 күн бұрын

Contra Costa county used to have major farms in the Brentwood/Tracy area. First they chased out the cattle farms, and built subdivisions in the land. Then they chased out several large farms. All subdivisions now. But they blame the remaining farmers for the lack of ground water and encourage people to use recycled water. It's complicated. And stupid. Because once the farms go, they bring in cookie cutter homes and don't care. Stacked on top of each other. Then wonder why the ground is dry.

@bendy6626

5 күн бұрын

California is destroying the dams that made agriculture possible in the desert. Stupid is, as stupid does. But it's the farmer's fault.

@grsafran

5 күн бұрын

Baloney, all California has done is to increase monitoring of the ground water. Of course the farmers aren't required to participate and can prevent the state from accessing their wells. It's all for show, making you FEEL something is being done but not actually doing anything. But we voted for the government who does these things and that's the way we like it.

We’re creating another dust bowl

@niksutliff

6 күн бұрын

Probably worse, as the gargantuan industrial farming operations have way more power than the Okie farmers. Okie farmers had to pack up and leave their farms. These corporate farms will just continue until the land is a literal desert, then they'll pack up and leave nothing.

@user-vw3dw6or9t

6 күн бұрын

No far worse

@geelee1977

5 күн бұрын

Way, way worse

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

" I started out with nothing, and still have some of it left."

Unspoken: High water use crops grown for export. Gulf nations own chunks of Arizona ag lands.

@jamescurrie6910

10 күн бұрын

Our new gobernor took away the leasing land they used. But the rest is private property, a bone hard to munch

@grsafran

5 күн бұрын

Yes they paid for that land and an American sold it to them. You know CAPITALISM.

Invisible? ... folks must be blind ... the water crisis has been plain and obvious for decades ... we've moved to the city and forgot how food grows ...

@grsafran

5 күн бұрын

It's not city folks who are depleting these aquafirs it's farmers planting crops that require a lot of water who are depleting them.

@russcrawford3310

5 күн бұрын

@@grsafran - Do city-folk eat the food grown with all this water? ... the Midwest gets rain during the summer ... so pumping the aquifers dry is strictly short-term greed ... like meat production ...

@jussikankinen9409

5 күн бұрын

God turn water into wine i mean sun

@BlownMacTruck

Күн бұрын

@@russcrawford3310 City dwellers don’t tell farmers what to grow. Farmers put themselves in this position by turning primarily from sustainable farming to industrial farming because they saw the dollar signs. But yeah. It’s city folks’ problem. 🙄

@russcrawford3310

15 сағат бұрын

@@BlownMacTruck - Yes ... city-folk have a problem if they haven't noticed the on-going water crisis ... it's been plain and obvious for decades ... grow your garden, and check the water bill ... is that sustainable? ...

Apparently, these people slept through the 1920's in Oklahoma

Michael Burry's (The Big Short) next investment was Water. Worth remembering

@spacetoast7783

2 күн бұрын

Almost none of Michael Burry's other predictions have come true.

Not to mention the pfas & pfos in many springs & wells. Had a big one in my area shut down because levels got too high & my town's drinking water is undrinkable because of it too. Clean drinking water is becoming scarce.

TSMC is building semiconductor foundry in Arizona. A process that requires millions of gallons of water per day.

@ivancho5854

8 күн бұрын

Yea, when they first decided upon Arizona I was utterly baffled. The financial incentives must outweigh the water disincentives.

@dr.strangelove5708

4 күн бұрын

Yes it would be better if they were on the coast plenty of water there not sure if salt if bad for processing or cost of getting the salt out but I am sure where there is massive profit there is a way.

@ivancho5854

4 күн бұрын

@@dr.strangelove5708 Or even just somewhere with lots of rainfall - Scotland? We have gills, webbed fingers and toes we get so much rain! 🌧️🤣

It’s way past due to limit development around Phoenix, way too many people for the resources there

Plant native trees to retain water. It also might bring clouds of rain with enough evaporation.🌧️

@thedude5040

7 күн бұрын

Lol there are no native forests in western kansas and very few native trees. There are more trees now than there was in the 1400s before Europe discovered America.

@frederickheard2022

5 күн бұрын

There are practically no native trees in the Great Plains other than a few cottonwoods hanging onto the banks of small creeks. It’s an enormous dry steppe. That’s a big part of why I left. 😂

Rural America resistant to change in defiance to basic logic? Who would have thought

I grew up on top of the Ogallala in Texas. It looks like Amarillo is going to beef itself to death.

What’s happening with our planet!! Even in my town all the wells is getting dried out

Anything but blame FRACKING. 😡

@user-qx1om2wj1h

7 күн бұрын

Yes fracking is also an issue that they should have brought up, but also can't avoid the issue with our terrible farming practices.

@Solitaryman70

7 күн бұрын

@@user-qx1om2wj1h Absolutely 👍, Aren’t most of them owned by MONSANTO/BAYER and Big Banks? YIKES 😳, pick your poison’s wisely. When I read the farmers could no longer use their own SOIL anymore and they by LAW must use Monsanto Soil; I merely passed out thinking 🤔, How in the PUCK did that ever get pass our 3 Branches of the Government??? Welcome to the World of Genetically Modified Foods. 🤑😞🤬🤒😷🤮🤑….Every Presidential or Political Debate, this is NEVER DEBATED OR EVEN DISCUSSED. 🤫🤐🤑🤑

@dr.strangelove5708

4 күн бұрын

Yes that has to play a factor in this.

In cities in the far east, tube wells were banned. Several years later, old springs started to flow again.

A lot of the problem is that that 50% of ground water is used in oil drilling and the rest is used to grow alfalfa that is shipped to Saudia Arabia to feed their horses. Then the rest is what the people get to use. Most of the problem is industry use that is being blamed on the dairy and food crop farmers!

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

Nuts to that. /s

Fracking surely didn't help. We're heading for 3C worldwide temp above pre-industrial.

🔥 🔥 🔥 "this is fine" 🔥 🔥 🔥

FINALLY! Someone is talking about this

So many federal laws , but none to maintain the agricultural heritage of America

@melvinbarnett1910

10 күн бұрын

The state can also create such laws. Besides, conservation can't be legislated. If you abuse it, you should lose it.

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

I'm curious how you would define "agricultural heritage" and why it is important that it be maintained? If we maintained all of the other industries that have fizzled out, then we'd have a lot of useless businesses. In general, I'd prefer for the states to handle this. Each state understands the challenges of that particular region better than the bureaucrats in Washington would. I haven't seen too many things the federal government manages well.

@3rett115

8 күн бұрын

Yeah, that's right. More gov restriction will increase production to keep the exploding american population obese.

Even India is running out of ground water

@AdityaJape

10 күн бұрын

No, we have the leadership and both ancient and modern technology to solve the problem

@keithlopes2010

10 күн бұрын

@@AdityaJape 🤣🤣

@parwinder2930

8 күн бұрын

Green revolution fuc**d ground water level

@ColtraneTaylor

4 күн бұрын

@@AdityaJape What is that ancient technology? And it seems like India is about to throw out that dictator they have now.

Stupid greedy developers and politicians.

@justayoutuber1906

10 күн бұрын

Farmer use 80% of the water for crops that go to animals

@AdamBechtol

10 күн бұрын

Stupid greedy farmers more like. "Let's grow alfalfa to ship to Dubai in a desert, while people are starved of water."

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

@@AdamBechtol You have a point...in general, I don't have a problem with selling the folks in Dubai some alfalfa (or oranges, or wheat, or any other agricultural product). However, I do have a problem with growing irrigated alfalfa in the USA desert and then shipping it overseas. Similarly, I see some irony (hypocrisy?) with growing heads of irrigated iceberg lettuce (~80% water) in the desert (70% in CA and 30% in AZ), then shipping that water laden lettuce across the country to locations with plenty of water. It seems to me that it would be more efficient to bottle the irrigation water in the desert and then ship it to NYC /sarc/. Between the movement of water from the desert (in the form of lettuce) and fuel it takes to move it is ludicrous to me...but when you live in an affluent nation, you can do that...

@AdamBechtol

10 күн бұрын

@@acm116 Mmmmhmm. You can, but "should" you? And for how long can we?

@frederickheard2022

8 күн бұрын

It’s farmers growing too much feed for too many cattle to satisfy demand for too much beef.

Who would have thought that unchecked greed and unregulated water usage would go south on us. And the aquifer goes all the way to Nebraska....literally Ogallala, Nebraska....where it was discovered and hence named after.

This has been a problem for decades, and _now_ the WSJ cares?

@yatarookayama8329

6 күн бұрын

So this how the Democrats (Regime) gonna cause a famine if they win in Nov ! They gonna restrict the use of water 🤔🤔

If there was ever an incentive for practicing rainwater catchment, it’s this. And yet some states in their own moral insanity, outlaw that practice or highly regulate it.

@felixer80

3 күн бұрын

This is largely due to lawsuits from Nestle saying rainwater catchment starves their aquifers

I've been thinking about this for years we really need to change our practices. Regenerative agriculture or holistic management for cattle is the answer. Why we are growing corn and alfalfa in these areas is beyond me. We need to be looking to regenerative management before we make a man made dessert. Were in the second dust bowl this one is worse than the 1920's because the soil is dead.

@Lunaticsofearth

10 күн бұрын

Do you have any evidence that these techniques can be as effective as industrial agriculture?

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

@@Lunaticsofearth Most cattle begin their lives on grass and their last six months on grain (at feedlots). With cattle and other ruminants, it could be done. It might take an extra few months, but it would be fine. You mentioned "industrial agriculture" and that term can have a lot of meanings. Most agriculture is conducted on farms owned by families, so I'm not certain to what you are referring. However, when animals are housed together with limited space, then some sort of processed feed is required for production (e.g., poultry, swine). This could be a rather long discussion, much too long for social media.

@user-qx1om2wj1h

7 күн бұрын

"Why we are growing corn and alfalfa is beyond me." The reason is farm animals, these crops are being given to farm animals as food. A lot of water is also used as drinking water for farm animals and used to clean them after they've been slaughtered.

I'm a Kansas resident.....the ethanol plants are a problem....more corn every year. It won't stop until the water is gone. All on purpose!!!

so much dusty dirt in this video. Water just evaporates off of exposed dirt and when it rains, there is erosion rather than soaking into the ground. What would it take to cover that with cover crops or mulch?

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

You've asked a great question that would require a long answer, but I'll shorten it: regenerative agriculture.

@frederickheard2022

8 күн бұрын

This is the exact same land that turned into the Dust Bowl 100 years ago. You’d think we’d learn.

@thedude5040

7 күн бұрын

@frederickheard2022 it's called CRP. We did learn our lesson and there won't be another dust bowl

I live at the foot of the Rocky Mts. People seem to think we have a limitless amount of water. Not true. Wells are going dry. Creeks and streams are being diverted by ranchers and farmers. THEN that water is being polluted by both industries. Yes, we get snow, but with the growing number of humans, there is not enough water. THE human pop is growing unrestrained by people who think they are above the needs of other lifeforms, we don't have a chance. Greed rules.

@paulanderson3349

7 күн бұрын

Global birthrates are at or below replacement levels. The human population is not "growing unrestrained", it will be shrinking in a couple more decades.

@breecedjpancake8565

5 күн бұрын

@chinookvalley spot on

All that corn for ethanol fuel sure doesn’t help. :/

Easy solution. Build reservoirs to contain all rain water. Don't let a single drop off rain water to flow into the ocean. This should be done a long time ago. About time this is done.

@timmick6911

7 күн бұрын

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong. H L Mencken

@danstenis660

7 күн бұрын

@@timmick6911 Please enlighten us of your brilliant solution.

The real question is has Kansas planted enough NEW trees since 1950 in their ag fields/pastures ? Trees produce water. I just see large fields with many access roads with no trees or even.

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

I'm not certain that trees are native to that part of Kansas - it was all grasslands during a past era. I know they do quite well with sunflowers 🙂

@user-qx1om2wj1h

7 күн бұрын

Farmers are more focused on making money then environmentally friendly practices, but I will say the part of Kansas I live in has a lot of trees. Also fracking is a big issues here in Kansas.

@thedude5040

7 күн бұрын

@user-qx1om2wj1h western kansas has never had trees. Infact there are more trees than in the 1400s

We should replace all corn farms with almond farms to really speed things up

@chinookvalley

7 күн бұрын

🤣

@user-qx1om2wj1h

7 күн бұрын

California: Waay ahead of you.

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

@@chinookvalley Stop crying, you are wasting water

Let's hope corporate stays out of this and actually allows the farmers and scientist to meet this challenge

1:30 Nebraska out here reppen the state with cattle ranching hardly draining anything😎

This is a state that for 30 years denied global warming and continues industrial monoculture their farms land reducing the quality of the soil and the capacity to retain water. Science already have shown how to do agriculture that allow maintaining land and water resources. In fact some farmers across the USA already do it. What they are waiting for to adapt?

@marshall3278

10 күн бұрын

They don't plan ever to adapt...they are going to sacrifice the earth's ability to sustain life for their own personal quality of life.

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

The Apocalypse

Had no idea the US was considered a “food superpower”. I’d never buy food that comes from USA, it’s widely known for low quality

@Sr_art_3862

8 күн бұрын

They claiming it as they want 😂

@frederickheard2022

8 күн бұрын

Look up where the world’s supply of wheat is grown.

@CyberQuince

8 күн бұрын

@@frederickheard2022 "world's supply"? I use wheat from my own country which also exports it. So it's not like the US produces *all* the world's wheat lol. You people are so brainwashed & clueless about the rest of the world

@ivancho5854

8 күн бұрын

Where do you think that food aid comes from? Many of the most populous and in some cases hostile people to the West (eg Yemen) are fed by the UN.

@sergejadam8860

7 күн бұрын

@@ivancho5854 Ukraine, Russa, Gemany

Thank you for sharing it

The largest user, I fixed my leaky toilet, now stop all those small operators from pumping my water!

So they're just going to ignore the fact the water is also used to grow food for farm animals that are then slaughter for food, and that water is also used as drinking water for farm animals and used to clean the farm animal after they're slaughter.

Scary to think we're running out of water 😨

@bretthatfield2516

10 күн бұрын

We are not running out of water. More than 70% of the Earth is water. We need to pump it from the oceans and desalinate it.

We've seen fields of crops get burned when irriagation wells suddenly became healvily salty here in Michigan. Afaik, Michigan has yet to pass a bill to perform statewide testing to gain more information about the situation

The first time I flew across the country I kept seeing all these round circles throughout the Midwest, turns out it's irrigation that runs on a central pivot so the field is watered in a huge circle.

Am I looking at the B-roll wrong? Those farmers are irrigating by spraying a constant stream of mist all while there are severe gusts of wind constantly blowing through the flat plain? Why?

@user-qx1om2wj1h

7 күн бұрын

I'm guessing drip irrigation would cost too much money, or as someone who lives in Kansas it could be do to the fact that Kansas has hard water and I heard it's difficult to use drip irrigation if you have hard water because it clogs up irrigation hoses faster. also Kansas is very windy and it can cause the soil to dry out faster (so you end up wasting more water do to the wind drying out the soil) or the wind blowing the water away from plants.

@paulanderson3349

7 күн бұрын

I don't know how common that is anymore. There's a lot of LEPA irrigation, that's still above ground but limits evaporation.

Normally, I am for free markets solving problems. And perhaps free markets can fix this. But my question is, why not install a network of pipes that connect regions/cities around the USA and send water to places that need it? We have gas pipelines, electric grid, railroads, interstates, telecommunications grids, but no water network. If you have an area that has just been hit by a hurricane or record rainfall, turn on the pumps and send it to a drought stricken area.

@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer

10 күн бұрын

✨rivers✨

@TheMercilessEye

10 күн бұрын

This then raises the issue of, from what material will these pipes be made? Concrete would seem the obvious answer, but the global sand shortage is likely to make the cost of using concrete for such pipes prohibitive. Metal? Again, cost. Plastic? Yeah...that's really going to be popular...

@ehoops31

10 күн бұрын

One major reason why the free market struggles with this in the US is because our land is not divided along watershed boundaries. There are videos of villages in India fixing their water problems, but they are able to get everyone on board because the villages are usually situated along watershed lines. In the US we need to get a lot more people on board since our land grid doesn't align.

@_ata_3

10 күн бұрын

The free market doesn't replenishes the aquifers, on the contrary, it dries them up

@marshall3278

10 күн бұрын

Bro we have a water network...you are just ignorant of it. A series of truly MASSIVE infrastructure projects carved up California and the Southwest and allowed all the desert cities like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Phoenix. Also, lol at thinking free markets solve problems.

Those stubborn old farmers will change their behavior when all of their wells run dry.

There is a very easy solution: accurate price signals. Government created this problem by making artificially cheap water from unsustainable/nonrenewable sources. The solution is to make the water more expensive so that people do not produce consumer products, agriculture, that does not match the environment that it's grown in. Figure out how much water there is coming into a zone on a renewable sustainable basis, then auction off that much water annually. People will start reducing their usage when it starts to get expensive. Then take the revenue from that water auction, and use it for a per-person dividend to offset the more expensive residential water usage that isn't really the problem, other than that people will stop growing grass lawns in the desert when it becomes significantly more expensive to do so. The invisible hand of the free market is amazing when accurate price signals are allowed to work.

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

Gee, you mean not externalizing cost?

@Meton2526

4 күн бұрын

@@whazzat8015 Same thing, just a different name and perspective lens for it.

The word "crisis" is rarely used for real crisises

@josepheridu3322

9 күн бұрын

true, it is always a crisis to control people

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

Yep. Just messiahs

The federal government needs to step in and provide everyone a reality check.

@Thebobbyman

10 күн бұрын

Voters don’t like reality checks. Or reality. Also most politicians are fighting over stupid stuff instead of real issues cause a lot of people just wanna hate and blame on people they don’t like and don’t care about water levels

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

I'd prefer for the states to handle this. Each state understands the challenges of that particular region better than the bureaucrats in Washington would. I haven't seen too many things the federal government manages well.

@SpazzyMcGee1337

10 күн бұрын

@@acm116 Why would one state intentionally harm itself to aid another? This is exactly what the federal government is for. They're selfish interests that lead individual states to do the thing that will harm everybody.

@Jay-pp7uv

4 күн бұрын

The federal government can't even balance the budget

@SpazzyMcGee1337

4 күн бұрын

@@Jay-pp7uv The problem is they don't have to. Until a better international currency comes around they can get away with constantly raising the debt ceiling.

Corn 🌽 is fooooooood not fuel ⛽️ That’s why we have water shortages 😢

@user-qx1om2wj1h

7 күн бұрын

You forget how corn is also commonly used as live stock feed.

Our wells are drying up in Maryland, tons of rain , just last couple years. Our one grocery store is often sold out of water with empty bottles piled up outside for the 5 gal exchange bottles.

Indoor vertical farming methods require 95% less water

@fenrirgg

10 күн бұрын

Indoor vertical farms can't produce corn, sorghum, alfalfa, triticale, etc.

@SpazzyMcGee1337

10 күн бұрын

Greenhouses reduce water use. Vertical farms only make sense for bringing select crops into more urbanized areas.

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

...and require a lot more infrastructure and energy. Also, the accountants are not impressed with the ROI. Vertical farming seems to make sense for some horticultural specialty crops.

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

@@fenrirgg well, they could, but it would be very expensive and not competitive. The grains are easy to grow in many parts of the world and they store (and ship) well, so it makes no sense growing them in an expensive controlled environment.

@levismith7444

10 күн бұрын

Ethanol uses enormous amounts of water to grow the corn to make it

Bottom line: Too many humans.

The challenge is made more complicated by the fact that a significant amount of these crops, if not the majority, are exported to other countries. One of the largest markets being China, which rely heavily on Midwest corn, soy, and alfalfa to feed their own livestock (see video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aaepuamvoNCZotY.html). This begs the question... when will policymakers realize their water is being exported, and like India, Vietnam, and Thailand, begin curbing the exports of water-intensive crops?

So weird. Its almost like mono crop agriculture isn't working.

Too many people, same amount of water....

Multiple generations have known this simple reality and chose to ignore it for short term gain, as with so many things.

@solarlight10

5 күн бұрын

🌞

I remember once there were studies of feeding cattle seaweed... That is plenteous and doesn't affect the agricultural and land use profile like corn does... Subsidize the transport of seaweed?

The United States needs to stop subsidizing when there are opportunities to purchase it cheaper from abroad. cell or rent the land to some green energy guys for wind, turbines, and solar farms instead of making corn into fuel.

@irokpe6977

10 күн бұрын

Your first idea is very bad. Outsourcing production capacity to foreign nations will make America weak. Perhaps, they should stop using corn for feul and stop growing corn for cows. That would help

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

I'd argue against those suggestions. Placing your food supply in the hands of a foreign entity reduces our national security. Green energy, it turns out, is not so green. The large wind turbine have their challenges (limited lifespan, non-recyclable materials, etc.), and the solar cells use a lot of rare earth materials that destroy other parts of the world. My suggestion would be to put the land into multi-species forage and allow intensive ruminant grazing.

@josepheridu3322

9 күн бұрын

Sure, depend on other countries that are more likely to be hostile and hold food. What an amazing idea.

@parwinder2930

8 күн бұрын

Import Indian cows there are plenty of them destroying farmer's crops

@serafinacosta7118

7 күн бұрын

Keep on your backyard. No land grabbing please.

Beef is by far the most water consuming agricultural product. It takes about 2000 gallons to get 1 pound of beef. Maybe the massive factory cattle farms in the area should have to pay a higher price for water.

@ChopperChad

10 күн бұрын

semiconductor fabs use 2-4 million gallons a day and they’re being built in Texas and Arizona which already experience water shortages. Also, golf courses use about 2 million gallons a year. And don’t forget all the corn that used to make ethanol for fuel blends and all the cotton fields that are used for clothing. But let’s focus on just beef. 🤦‍♂️

@penguin32383

10 күн бұрын

@@ChopperChad Those things are a literal drop in the bucket. This report even says "85% is used for agricultural irrigation".

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

It does take a lot of water for beef, but that's okay...much of that water is returned to the earth in the form of urine. And in areas of the country with ample precipitation, accessing 2000 gallons of water is not a problem. In fact, the soil biome benefits from the cattle. You mention "massive factory cattle farms." I'm curious what you are referring to. Almost all (all?) cattle start on a farm, most on family farms, and begin their lives on their momma's milk and then grass. Only the final six months are on a feedlot.

@roblowe8295

5 күн бұрын

@@acm116yeah some people never payed attention in biology/ecology class and it shows.

You might mention, the wet/dry line which defines the dryland west from the wetter lands in the east, (currently thought of as the 100th meridian) is moving eastward at about 60 miles per decade.

The way humanity recklessly lets itself multiply into 8 billion.... 10 billion and onward while at the same time showing so little concern for polluting and using its limited fresh water supply. And all the other things it does to destroy its environment. Its quite macabre

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

Nothing we can't use growth to get ourselves out of.

This landscape needs trees.

@largedad4830

10 күн бұрын

Trees can't survive in Kansas It's super dry with harsh summers and winters. So rather than forests Kansas is covered in prairie

@ClassyMonkey1212

10 күн бұрын

It needs grasslands

@acm116

10 күн бұрын

Not likely. Grass is the species native to the area. It needs native grasses and forbs.

Let the country subside and stupidity and greed win.🤔

Nobody uses water. We only borrow it.

Central to this topic is the idea of a public good. Too bad it was only introduced at the end of the video. Otherwise a very good video, especially from the conservative WSJ.

The area along the 100th meridian tend to dryer because the Rocky mountains block rain from passing. Those areas should've never been used for agriculture. Water is going to be huge issue as climate change worsens. Some areas will suffer from drought while others struggle with floods.

Very interesting. Good vid.

On an interesting side note, pioneers reported that the plains natives used to believe that the prairie dogs would “cry for rain.” Then the prairie dogs were all eradicated because their burrows injured the legs of the pioneers’ cattle. Then the prairies dried up and we got a dust bowl. Apparently the prairie dogs’ burrows allowed the water from the aquifer to evaporate up into the atmosphere and thus create rain…which is good.

@Zednor9

5 күн бұрын

Where on Earth did you hear that? The dust bowl wasn't due to prairie dog eradication, and their burrows don't allow aquifers to evaporate and create rain. The dust bowl was primarily driven by tillage and related farming practices that destroyed the soil and left behind nothing but dead dusty dirt, which then blew away in the wind.

@scdrescher1

5 күн бұрын

@@Zednor9 biology class. College. I totally agree that farming practices had a significant impact on the dust bowl. The point of the comment was to show how our actions impact the world around us. I know prairie dog eradication wasn’t the sole reason but it still had a profoundly deleterious effect on the region. Any time you remove a link from the ecosystem you’re going to see a huge impact.

There would be no Garden City if it wasn't for the Beef Industry, she said @ 1.44 Let me put it another way There will be no Garden City without the Aquifer

@whazzat8015

4 күн бұрын

Maybe there shouldn't be a Garden City?

I hope america will worry about their water more than worry about middle east countries

@thedude5040

5 күн бұрын

Free Iran!

@thedude5040

5 күн бұрын

The people of Iran deserve a better government