I live in an area with even less water than Atlanta. The rapidly growing cities keep adding more people but are not adding any reservoirs to hold water. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that eventually, the demand with outstrip the supply. And the assumption that we’ll get enough rain to keep the reservoirs filled is not valid any more. When it is raining twice a month, no matter how many reservoirs you’ve dug, you’re still going to run out of water. I have discussed this issue with my neighbors and many of us realize it is just a matter of time. And when that day comes around, there will be two kinds of people - those that are prepared and those that aren’t. I am literally going to have to have a well dug on a property I RENT in order to avoid the alternative, which is no water. That will solve the problem for a while but in a long term situation, wells run dry too. Perhaps the worst part is not knowing if this is a temporary situation or one that will persist and become critical very soon. Either could happen and if the weather patterns do not change soon we will see social engineering at its worst. I cannot help but wonder how a high pressure system can remain stationary for months over one large location in a dynamic weather system.
I live in an area with even less water than Atlanta. The rapidly growing cities keep adding more people but are not adding any reservoirs to hold water. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that eventually, the demand with outstrip the supply. And the assumption that we’ll get enough rain to keep the reservoirs filled is not valid any more. When it is raining twice a month, no matter how many reservoirs you’ve dug, you’re still going to run out of water. I have discussed this issue with my neighbors and many of us realize it is just a matter of time. And when that day comes around, there will be two kinds of people - those that are prepared and those that aren’t. I am literally going to have to have a well dug on a property I RENT in order to avoid the alternative, which is no water. That will solve the problem for a while but in a long term situation, wells run dry too. Perhaps the worst part is not knowing if this is a temporary situation or one that will persist and become critical very soon. Either could happen and if the weather patterns do not change soon we will see social engineering at its worst. I cannot help but wonder how a high pressure system can remain stationary for months over one large location in a dynamic weather system.