America Is Using Up Its Groundwater Like There’s No Tomorrow

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/28/climate/groundwater-drying-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=gHhsU6LiIPQUSpqgu7SScIzRaOuZEG_kZFe0V-4GTjFZQ44nSjrJoKVrUvIgdRbVetkFTO_dhel0Sn_LJ6LAMKZ2kGMt1uHZJI2ZSaXhyicmboTpIFbCSEmkSBpC3uWn4NXqPPEGchI-baHm2e41QAg3CJmBtWslk2o1jhd82tOuOPae0JVPobCHdbcaGBuCPGldhAKsKHkGFVLQXRfieoaom9Z-H1eGMKN2ZIpdbv5IHybHEC4MjLAzoR2WNNoM4JcNSiMRl8LMcZpByJureivQQOR754KpisfvsHoKLAzHVvwhevf_4nlkoibJytR1BeKdAWvB5l1BzZJIWT6vy5WKgYO32tJVS0SPUn70_muT5o2ddDfjJxsBhw

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tgirod

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... or maybe switch to a less water intensive form of agriculture ?

Edit : I mean, how sustaining a wasteful practice with a huge wasteful infrastructure is progress ?

exohuman

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We can and should do both.

tgirod

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Maybe we should, but I'm not sure we can - because one (nuclear + desalination) acts as a disincentive to the other (actually chaning practice).

Also, building a nuclear reactor takes a lot of time (do we have it ?), changing agricultural practices can start right now and scale progressively.