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Kai Chang 張文愷I did not predict that "weaponize" would become the next "literally"<a href="https://toot.community/tags/weaponize" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#weaponize</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/literally" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literally</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/overuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overuse</a>

CelloMom On Cars"During [the last] 30 years, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freshwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#freshwater</a> lakes collectively lost an average of 600 cubic kilometers of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> storage annually – 17 times the volume of Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States.The cause is a combination of human-caused <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/overuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overuse</a> and unprecedented shifts in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/climate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#climate</a>, the researchers found. "<a href="https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/09/how-cities-run-dry/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/09/how-cities-run-dry/</a>

MagpieblogOverusing groundwater ended North Africa's Garamantian civilization.' "As you look at modern examples like the San Joaquin Valley, people are using the groundwater up [faster] than it's being replenished," says [study lead author Frank] Schwartz. "California had a great wet winter this year, but that followed 20 years of drought. [If drier years continue] California will ultimately run into the same problem as the Garamantians.... " '<a href="https://mas.to/tags/groundwater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#groundwater</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/overuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overuse</a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Sahara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sahara</a> <a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-10-ancient-society-sahara-rose-fell.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2023-10-ancient-society-sahara-rose-fell.html</a>

DoomsdaysCWThe world’s largest <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/lakes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lakes</a> are shrinking dramatically and scientists say they have figured out whyThese significant bodies of water include the Colorado River’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeMead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LakeMead</a>, which has receded sharply amid a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/megadrought" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#megadrought</a> and decades of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/overuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overuse</a>.By Laura Paddison, CNN Published May 18, 2023 4:29 PM EDT The shrinking of many lakes has been well documented, but the extent of change – and the reasons behind it – have been less thoroughly examined, said Fangfang Yao, the study’s lead author and a visiting scholar at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder.The researchers used satellite measurements of nearly 2,000 of the world’s largest lakes and reservoirs, which together represent 95% of Earth’s total lake water storage.Examining more than 250,000 satellite images spanning from 1992 to 2020, along with climate models, they were able to reconstruct the history of the lakes going back decades.The results were “staggering,” the report authors said.They found that 53% of the lakes and reservoirs had lost significant amounts of water, with a net decline of around 22 billion metric tons a year – an amount the report authors compared to the volume of 17 Lake Meads.More than half of the net loss of water volume in natural lakes can be attributed to human activities and climate change, the report found. The report found losses in lake water storage everywhere, including in the humid <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/tropics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tropics</a> and the cold Arctic. This suggests “drying trends worldwide are more extensive than previously thought,” Yao said.Different lakes were affected by different drivers.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Unsustainable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Unsustainable</a> water consumption is the predominant reason behind the shriveling of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AralSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AralSea</a> in Uzbekistan and California’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SaltonSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SaltonSea</a>, while changes in rainfall and runoff have driven the decline of the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GreatSaltLake</a>, the report found.In the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Arctic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arctic</a>, lakes have been shrinking due to a combination of changes in temperature, precipitation, evaporation and runoff.“Many of the human and climate change footprints on lake water losses were previously unknown,” Yao said, “such as the desiccations of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeGoodEZareh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LakeGoodEZareh</a> in Afghanistan and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LakeMarChiquita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LakeMarChiquita</a> in Argentina."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterWars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterWars</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Consumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Consumption</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClimateCrisis</a>Read more: <a href="https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/worlds-largest-lakes-see-sharp-declines/1528645" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.accuweather.com/en/climate/worlds-largest-lakes-see-sharp-declines/1528645</a>

PhoenixSerenityThe world is facing an <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/imminent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#imminent</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/WaterCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WaterCrisis</a> w/ demand expected to outstrip the supply of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FreshWater" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreshWater</a> by 40% by the end of this decade, experts have said at crucial <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/UN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UN</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> summit. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Governments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Governments</a> must urgently <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/stop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stop</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/subsidising" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#subsidising</a> the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/extraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#extraction</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/overuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overuse</a> of <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#water</a> through misdirected agricultural subsidies & <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/industries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#industries</a> from <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mining</a> to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#manufacturing</a> must be made to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/overhaul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#overhaul</a> their <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/wasteful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wasteful</a> practices, according to a <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/LandmarkReport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LandmarkReport</a> on the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/economics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#economics</a> of water.<a href="https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/global-fresh-water-demand-outstrip-supply-by-2030" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/17/global-fresh-water-demand-outstrip-supply-by-2030</a>

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