I'm no geologist but

Even the oil and gas industry has a role to play, according to Miller. The Agriculture Commissioner thinks the state should consider using brackish water for fracking instead of fresh water.

It sounds to me like Sid Miller wants to inject salt into Texas' water table

I used to work on a national, multi-year multidisciplinary study on, without doxxing myself, basically what he is talking about... but across the US. we looked at technologies, practices, and strategies for conserving, reusing, and waste / ecological impacts. millions and millions of federal dollars were and are spent on both research and infrastructure upgrades, demonstrations, education, etc.

the brick wall some states have been racing, even accelerating towards has been visible from the cockpit for several years and usually decades, even by the politically cowardly and conservative federal agencies.

the small farms are going to go first, if they haven't already. then the medium, then the politically connected and wealthiest farms... though they will probably receive buy outs. the what remains of agricultural communities will fold too and accelerate dislocation and economic migration into the larger cities.

industry will greedily snap up whatever former agricultural water was around evaporating any surplus present after agriculture grinds to a halt.

this future is locked in. it cannot be resisted, only fled.

the fact that an elected official in Texas is using the press to convince the public that Texas needs more federal dollars with all its federal strings should tell you these are people want to be seen as crisis managers, but really looking to suck the last bit of the milkshake.

This is one of my major concerns with the global stability of agriculture. The projections of yield losses due to climate change are significant and economically impactful, but they're not something we're incapable of planning around. But if we deplete all the aquifers there's the possibility of a swift and catastrophic collapse. In India, cities are sinking due to rapid groundwater extraction. Things have the potential to get very ugly very quickly if management doesn't improve.

Great Lakes residents, it's time we get together and form a compact before anyone tries any funny business.

Allah be praised

I only read the first chapter for free for the Ministry for the Future or whatever it was called but imo they really fucked up having the wet bulb mass death event portrayed in uttar pradesh instead of some random town in Texas

time to build another golf course

Better privatise the water service, that'll fix it.

Aral Sea-style crisis might happen.