Water, Anyone?

Something odd has been happening across the world in many areas where high tech farming draws its water from far below the land. The water table is being depleted at alarming rates. In short, many areas where those high yield farms have been producing record crops and supply much of the world with its food, are starting to run out of water from which to irrigate their farms. It leaves a question. Is overpopulation now a real problem, not tomorrow's nightmare? Water shortages already affects every continent and around 2.8 billion people around the world at least one month out of every year. More than 1.2 billion of the world's 7 billion people already lack access to clean drinking water.
 
The severe depletion of the water table is symptomatic of a larger crisis in the United States and many other parts of the world. It's the canary in the mine that we have to address water shortages created by an over use of an out of control growth in world population.

Measurements, for example, from more than 32,000 wells in the U.S. and found water levels falling in nearly two thirds of those wells, with heavy pumping causing major declines in many areas. Much more water is being pumped from the ground than can be naturally replenished, and groundwater levels are plummeting. It's happening all over the world as less water pours from wells, some farmers are adapting by switching to different crops. Others are shutting down their drained wells and trying to scratch out a living as dry land farmers, relying only on the rains, and that isn't going to produce the huge number of crops needed to feed the out of control and growing world population.

I remember as a kid the euphoria about the "green revolution", about how modern farm techniques were ensuring that world hungry was a thing of the past. Apparently not. While politicians and media hype so called "climate change" (or is it "global warming") as a threat to "the planet", the very real problem of too many people on the earth is ignored. No politicians will tell his constituents to stop having babies. There's no chance of reelection if so. Thus, as Rome burns we fiddle. Instead of talking about certain threats, we hear spin about climate being changed by humans.

The result of this obsession with theories of how humans are changing climate is that we will soon face a real  and unspoken threat to what the leftists call "the planet's survival". The United Nations says that about 80% of the world water supply is already threatened. By the end of the century, scientists predict billions of people will be without enough water for survival. The result will be world conflict over water and food shortages that make it impossible to feed the monolithic population growth we clue lessly continue to promote. Perhaps the hysteria of "climate change' should be replaced with a campaign to control the world population from growing even more out of hand. But I doubt we will see that.