Here in Minnesota, we have had lots of rain. In fact the flooding in June was the worst it has been in decades. There are thousands of acres of farm land right around my house that NEVER got planted because it was simply too wet.
But in other parts of the country, the opposite is happening. It's terribly dry. No rain, no snow in the mountains to fill the reservoirs and now we are finding that the underground aquifers have been pumped so aggressively to irrigate farmland that they might be gone too.
Hmmmm....sounds like a famine could be coming.
The once bounteous quantities of water that flowed under his farmland in the Texas Panhandle are a distant memory–pumped to the last drop. Now there is only one source of water for his wheat and sorghum: the sky above. “We try to catch anything that falls,” Spinhirne says.
The scope of this mounting crisis is difficult to overstate: The High Plains of Texas are swiftly running out of groundwater supplied by one of the world’s largest aquifers – the Ogallala. A study by Texas Tech University has predicted that if groundwater production goes unabated, vast portions of several counties in the southern High Plains will soon have little water left in the aquifer to be of any practical value.
The Ogallala Aquifer spreads across eight states, from Texas to South Dakota, covering 111.8 million acres and 175,000 square miles. It’s the fountain of life not only for much of the Texas Panhandle, but also for the entire American Breadbasket of the Great Plains, a highly-sophisticated, amazingly-productive agricultural region that literally helps feed the world.
This catastrophic depletion is primarily manmade. By the early eighties, automated center-pivot irrigation devices were in wide use – those familiar spidery-armed wings processing in a circle atop wheeled tripods. This super-sized sprinkler system allowed farmers to water crops more regularly and effectively, which both significantly increased crop yields and precipitously drained the Ogallala.
Compounding the drawdown has been the nature of the Ogallala itself. Created 10 million years ago, this buried fossil water is–in many places—not recharged by precipitation or surface water. When it’s gone, it’s gone for centuries.
“This country became what it became largely because we had water security,” says Venki Uddameri, Ph.D., director of the Water Resources Center at Texas Tech. “That’s being threatened to a large degree now.”
With the world population increasing, and other critical global aquifers suffering equally dramatic declines, scientists acknowledge that if the American Breadbasket cannot help supply ever-growing food demands, billions could starve.
“The depletion of the Ogallala is an internationally important crisis,” says Burke Griggs, Ph.D., consulting professor at the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University. “How individual states manage the depletion of that aquifer will obviously have international consequences.”
Here; http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/last-drop-americas-breadbasket-faces-dire-water-crisis-n146836
Did you see that?!? "..BILLIONS COULD STARVE"!
People, this is ABC NEWS reporting this...NOT the National Enquirer!
The PhD in the article says that USA became what it became largely because we had water security.
Well, yes, that is partly true...but WHO blessed us with that water? WHO hid it under the ground knowing that we would find it and use it to grow corn in the dry places and thereby feed the world and become wealthy in the process?
Friends, I don't care how smart or technologically savvy we are here in America. If God doesn't send the rain and snow (or sends too much) this country will go under in a very short time....and if we aren't around to feed the world...billions WILL starve.
Already, California's farmers are not getting the water they need to water their crops. No lettuce, no almonds, no broccoli, and more problems for all of us since California produces about 40% of all the stuff we eat in America!!
When a nation turns from God the blessings can cease in a hurry.
It sure seems as if we are heading for the Great Tribulation. The table seems to be getting set for this occasion...and this talk of drought, famine and billions dying as a result, appears to be one more sign.
Revelation 6:8
I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
Right now the world has a population of about 7.5 billion people....so do the math and we can figure that the rider on the pale horse is going to be killing a few billion.
Also please remember that a billion is 1000 million.
That's a whole-lotta-wrath coming!! If you haven't already accepted the peace available ONLY from Jesus Christ...I would encourage you to bow, repent and accept Him now...so that you can escape all that is coming for this dark and fallen world.
