What If It Stopped Raining?
Monday, April 21, 2008 Filed in: Events
Droughts are nothing new, troubling mankind as long
as mankind has been around. Are the latest droughts
something new?
The southeastern U.S. is drying up under the worst drought conditions since the union was formed. There's no rain. Water tables are dangerously low. Reservoirs are lower. It's dryer than dry.
The drought is so bad that state officials in Georgia have resorted to prayer as a viable solution.
Southern and southwestern Europe are in the middle of a drought that appears eerily similar. No rain. Water tables are dangerously low. Reservoirs are lower. It's dryer than dry. Water rationing has begun.
Ever heard of Moldova? How about Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia? Crops are failing, farms are dying, wildfires are spreading. There's no rain.
The story is remarkably similar elsewhere in the world, including southern California. Mexico's Tehuacan Valley, the birthplace of corn, hasn't had a good rain in five years. Large chunks of Australia are under a drought that has never been seen and recorded by humans.
Back to the USA. Climatologists are calling the drought in the southwest and the southeast the worst in 500 years. It is a drought of epic proportions and merely one of many throughout the world.
Oil is an economic necessity. Without it, large portions of the world's economy would be altered. Without water, mankind has more than a major problem. Humans in some areas of the world face such a situation.
What if it stopped raining? For too many, it already has.
The southeastern U.S. is drying up under the worst drought conditions since the union was formed. There's no rain. Water tables are dangerously low. Reservoirs are lower. It's dryer than dry.
The drought is so bad that state officials in Georgia have resorted to prayer as a viable solution.
Southern and southwestern Europe are in the middle of a drought that appears eerily similar. No rain. Water tables are dangerously low. Reservoirs are lower. It's dryer than dry. Water rationing has begun.
Ever heard of Moldova? How about Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia? Crops are failing, farms are dying, wildfires are spreading. There's no rain.
The story is remarkably similar elsewhere in the world, including southern California. Mexico's Tehuacan Valley, the birthplace of corn, hasn't had a good rain in five years. Large chunks of Australia are under a drought that has never been seen and recorded by humans.
Back to the USA. Climatologists are calling the drought in the southwest and the southeast the worst in 500 years. It is a drought of epic proportions and merely one of many throughout the world.
Oil is an economic necessity. Without it, large portions of the world's economy would be altered. Without water, mankind has more than a major problem. Humans in some areas of the world face such a situation.
What if it stopped raining? For too many, it already has.
