People have always had to live where there is access to water.
It's that the water where people decided to live decades or even centuries ago is starting to disappear due to a variety of factors (population growth, overuse, natural cycles, and yes, climate change).
This then leads to a variety of short term instability and social issues like mass migrations and conflict because humans need water.
Water is in no way disappearing in the place where I'm from, yet there are media and political campaigns about coming water shortages there. Even though it's geologically impossible. It's comparable to creating a big scare about tropical diseases in some place like Iceland. And everybody has to pretend that all science and evidence in front of your eyes is moot.
Has the human mind deteriorated now to the extent that people cannot understand that some issues are local? I am reminded of the Soviet days, when they changed farming techniques with disastrous results, because they had "new knowledge". The scientific knowledge in question was "I god damned said so" from the rulers. Anybody who disagrees is a traitor, sent into exile, or down voted by hackers.
Water is in no way disappearing in the place where I'm from, yet there are media and political campaigns about coming water shortages there.
Depending on where you are, there is likely a delta between how much water is typically used and how much is being replenished in reservoirs. So while it's not going to immediately disappear, the rate of replacement is likely lower and unsustainable over a given period of time without corrective action.
One aspect to consider is that abnormal climate events are now harder to predict because shifts in decades (in some cases, centuries) of stable weather patterns. So extreme rains and snows are a good example where models show a trend towards loss of reservoirs, but one event can throw the model off. A good example is the recent snowfalls in Big Sur[0] and then heavy flooding events the following spring [1]
If your part of the world is constantly under drought advisories, I would suggest that rather than going by your "gut" or going by news media, go to the source and find the academic and scientific papers relevant to your region of the world and see why some scientists might be raising the alarm about water levels. More than likely, you'll find that there's solid evidence that the rate of fresh water replenishment is in a negative trajectory.
There's never been a drought there historically. The geological and geographical realities simply don't permit it. Maybe if the population suddenly increased by a hundred times over, there could be some water issues. Not for a lack of water, but lack of infrastructure. The government/media (they're one and the same there) just decided a couple of years ago that water access was a huge problem. There are no academic or scientific papers claiming any risk of water shortage, because there is no scientific basis for it.
So I'm curious as to their purpose. Sure, the politicians can hire some friends and relatives to well paid government jobs to plan for a drought that will never come. The media can keep a percentage of their readers in the state of anxiety that they love. And probably it can help in having a part of the population take their minds of real problems that would require real solutions. But those reasons sound kind of meagre. Is it a bid to nationalize and privatize the water supply for further control and profit? Could be.
More than likely, you'll find that there's solid evidence that the rate of fresh water replenishment is in a negative trajectory.
You seem to blindly assume that any government is completely right in everything they do and say. If I wrote that there was a huge drought in my region and the government denies it, then you would argue here that the government is right and the cattle dying of dehydration are just reactionaries.
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People have always had to live where there is access to water.
It's that the water where people decided to live decades or even centuries ago is starting to disappear due to a variety of factors (population growth, overuse, natural cycles, and yes, climate change).
This then leads to a variety of short term instability and social issues like mass migrations and conflict because humans need water.
Water is in no way disappearing in the place where I'm from, yet there are media and political campaigns about coming water shortages there. Even though it's geologically impossible. It's comparable to creating a big scare about tropical diseases in some place like Iceland. And everybody has to pretend that all science and evidence in front of your eyes is moot.
Has the human mind deteriorated now to the extent that people cannot understand that some issues are local? I am reminded of the Soviet days, when they changed farming techniques with disastrous results, because they had "new knowledge". The scientific knowledge in question was "I god damned said so" from the rulers. Anybody who disagrees is a traitor, sent into exile, or down voted by hackers.
One aspect to consider is that abnormal climate events are now harder to predict because shifts in decades (in some cases, centuries) of stable weather patterns. So extreme rains and snows are a good example where models show a trend towards loss of reservoirs, but one event can throw the model off. A good example is the recent snowfalls in Big Sur[0] and then heavy flooding events the following spring [1]
[0] https://www.independent.com/2023/03/21/big-sur-in-the-snow/
[1] https://www.ktvu.com/news/big-sur-highway-1-temporary-fix-pl...
If your part of the world is constantly under drought advisories, I would suggest that rather than going by your "gut" or going by news media, go to the source and find the academic and scientific papers relevant to your region of the world and see why some scientists might be raising the alarm about water levels. More than likely, you'll find that there's solid evidence that the rate of fresh water replenishment is in a negative trajectory.
There's never been a drought there historically. The geological and geographical realities simply don't permit it. Maybe if the population suddenly increased by a hundred times over, there could be some water issues. Not for a lack of water, but lack of infrastructure. The government/media (they're one and the same there) just decided a couple of years ago that water access was a huge problem. There are no academic or scientific papers claiming any risk of water shortage, because there is no scientific basis for it.
So I'm curious as to their purpose. Sure, the politicians can hire some friends and relatives to well paid government jobs to plan for a drought that will never come. The media can keep a percentage of their readers in the state of anxiety that they love. And probably it can help in having a part of the population take their minds of real problems that would require real solutions. But those reasons sound kind of meagre. Is it a bid to nationalize and privatize the water supply for further control and profit? Could be.
You seem to blindly assume that any government is completely right in everything they do and say. If I wrote that there was a huge drought in my region and the government denies it, then you would argue here that the government is right and the cattle dying of dehydration are just reactionaries.
What's your water source?
Lots of precipitation, ground water and gigantic freshwater lakes.