Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
Our planet is drying out at a pace that is unlike anything we have ever seen before.Once massive lakes are rapidly shrinking, once mighty rivers are steadily dwindling, and colossal underground aquifers are being pumped dry all over the world. This is an absolutely enormous problem, because very soon we simply will not have enough fresh water to support 8 billion people. In fact, drought conditions are severely affecting global crop production in 2026. If current trends continue, it will become increasingly difficult to grow food. In other words, if the land on our planet doesn’t stop drying out there isno way that we will be able to avoid an era of widespread global famines.
This isn’t something that just started happening recently.
Over the last several decades, the world has been losing fresh water“at an unprecedented rate”…
The world is losing fresh water at an unprecedented rate, two decades’ worth of satellite data has revealed.
Measurements from NASA’s twin GRACE satellites and GRACE follow-on missions have shown that since 2002, the amount of land suffering from water loss has been increasing year on year by twice the area of the state of California. That includes the loss of water from surface reservoirs such as lakes and rivers and underground aquifers, which are an important source of drinking water around the globe.
Mega-drying regions have emerged across the Northern Hemisphere with the worst-hit areas extending across the western coast of North America, Southwestern North America and Central America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
Just look at what has been happening to the Great Salt Lake.
Once upon a time it was absolutely gigantic.
But now it has lost approximately 73 percent of its water and approximately 60 percent of its surface area.
Source: ZeroHedge News
