[Vision2020] re: Water: Are we the cause

[Nils Peterson]

Its true that we have not been collecting data on the level of the aquifer
before we had wells down to it, but if the level is declining for any cause
and we depend on the water being there, the problem of running out would
seem to be the same.

The bathtub metaphor made me wonder what the end game would be like. Will
the water suddenly be gone, or will it just go dry one well at a time, in a
diminishing returns sort of way? Will the quality go down as we slurp the
bottom of the pool?

If we knew this, we'd have a better idea about how to thing about the
urgency of the water problem. If the end is one of fading away that takes a
decade or more, we'd have a better chance of awakening the voters who don't
care about the issue. If the end will be more sudden, leadership in advance
of seeing the end may be reqiured


On 4/25/06 11:22 PM, Dovonan Arnold wrote:

>   
>  How do we even know that we (humans in Moscow) are the  cause of the decline
> in the aquifer? Just because my bathtub water is  going down does not mean I
> am consuming it. Just a thought.
>   
>   _DJA