an Argentinian lake the size of New York City disappears

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More than 500,000 people in these areas depend on water from the Senguer River basin. And the strain is growing alongside the region’s population.

By measuring flow rates at more than 45 different irrigation sites in the upper basin, they found nearly seven times more water was being extracted for agricultural use than was being carried by the aqueducts to supply water to the three coastal cities.

Two major problems even if we switch to cleaner energy sources-population sizes that are simply unsustainable whatever the Vance types say and our shockingly nightmarish food system (factory farming, deforestation for cattle feed, the waste produced).


So their solution is a dam. Wonder how that will work out…
It seems as if the water wars are here to stay anyway :-/ (especially with ai gobbling up more water now):

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210816-how-water-shortages-are-brewing-wars

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/dams-california-water-wars


An actually intelligent alien species that had some notion of science & enlightenment values based stewardship of natural resources would consider us myopic, crass and barbaric sadly..