There's nothing like being in the desert to make you appreciate water. You don't really begin to appreciate it properly until it's gone though.
On a hike that can be a potentially lethal faux pas. From the looks of things we're about to get to see what it looks like when that happens on a larger scale.
This article about the impending demise of the Great Salt Lake in Utah and the catastrophic consequences of that got me to thinking (and editing) today. To save the lake, water use will have to be cut 30 to 50 percent, in one of the fastest growing areas of the country.
Arizona and Nevada are in similar straits, with booming populations and a dwindling Colorado River. Judging by people's fondness for moving into floodplains this shouldn't be particularly surprising but it's still just as baffling.
Somebody had best start churning out stillsuits in a hurry. Not sure anything else will save'em at this point. I wonder if water rights have made it to the blockchain yet?
On a more serious note, how do you stop a slow motion train wreck like this from happening? People are gonna people, be blindly oblivious to the problem until it's way too late, then loudly demand that something be done.
All I know is there's going to be some fun new ghost towns to explore before too much longer.
Originally was going to edit photos from Antelope Island (now peninsula) in the Great Salt Lake but that was too depressing so I went a little further south, to the deserts around Moab, Utah.
Canyonlands and Arches National Parks are some amazing places but they are definitely not somewhere you want to run out of water in.
It doesn't take long there to get a sense that we exist at Mother Nature's sufferance. Get sloppy or just unlucky and that's it for you.
If somebody could figure out a way to bottle that and sell it we might be alright. Barring that, how do you get people to understand that without catastrophe beating them about the head with it?
This fine home was built in 1906 to replace a more primitive structure. I wonder what Phoenix and Las Vegas will look like in a hundred years?
What do you think about having nothing to drink? Where are you going to go when the water don't flow?
