Monday, October 22, 2007
The Future Is Drying Up
from the New York Times (Registration Required)
Scientists sometimes refer to the effect a hotter world will have on this
country's fresh water as the other water problem, because global warming
more commonly evokes the specter of rising oceans submerging our great
coastal cities.
By comparison, the steady decrease in mountain snowpack - the loss of the
deep accumulation of high-altitude winter snow that melts each spring to
provide the American West with most of its water - seems to be a more
modest worry. But not all researchers agree with this ranking of dangers.
Last May, for instance, Steven Chu, a Nobel laureate and the director of
the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ... remarked that diminished
supplies of fresh water might prove a far more serious problem than slowly
rising seas. When I met with Chu last summer in Berkeley, the snowpack in
the Sierra Nevada, which provides most of the water for Northern
California, was at its lowest level in 20 years.
To read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21water-t.html
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