Does the United States Have Enough Water?
The short answer is nobody really knows. The National Ground Water Association has designated the week of March 9-13 as Ground Water Awareness Week. The USGS is gearing up to assess the availability and use of our Nation’s water resources, including groundwater. The USGS is working to determine how much water we have now, how water availability is changing over time, and how much water will be available for America’s future. By better understanding groundwater resources now, we can help to protect the quality and quantity of human and environmental fresh water needs in the future. To learn more about the USGS’s plans for water availability assessment, visit http://water.usgs.gov/wsi/, or contact Jennifer LaVista at (703) 648-4432 or jlavista@usgs.gov.
One thing we can say is that water is not evenly distributed across our country and some areas out West are already suffering. The media is starting to catch on to the fact that water will be the new oil and those who control it will be the ones in power. Our country has a long history of selling mineral rights and access to other natural resources right out from under the folks living above them. We don?t want a future in which we own and maintain our own wells, but pay someone else for the water we pump from the ground.
Rick.