Arthur Conan Doyle writes:
(Scott Lurndal) wrote:

And indeed, one should reduce the use of water, where at all possible. It
is, indeed, a limited resource and one where the underground reserves are
dwindling fast and competition for whats left is heating up. Just look at
the Colorado river, or the perrenial water disputes between Ok and Tx.

Demonstrating a lack of basic geology. Look up the water cycle. Water is not
being destroyed or used up. Certain types of water may be less accessible than
they have been in the past, but with a few small exceptions, every molecule of
water that existed a thousand years ago exists today.

Getting water from point A (where it is), to point B (where it is needed)
is the difficulty, of course. Pumping all the groundwater and letting
it run out to sea doesn't help anyone (and in fact, that's a significant
fraction of the change in sea level (13%)[**] over the last two decades).

In any case, unless you believe in abiogenic origination of petroleum,
it isn't like water in any way, shape or form. Once used, it won't
cycle out of the atmosphere and become petroleum again for millions of years.

And yes, a friend's well is now 200 feet deeper than it was just
a decade ago. How do you suggest that we replenish the ground water
given the number of millenia it would take for nature to replenish it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_water
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_scarcity

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