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Majority of groundwater stores resilient to climate change:
Fewer of the world's large aquifers are depleting than previously estimated, according to a new study by the University of Sussex and UCL.
[...] Previous global studies of changes in groundwater storage, estimated using data from the GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) satellite mission and global models, have concluded that intensifying human water withdrawals in the majority of the world's large aquifer systems are causing a sustained reduction in groundwater storage, depleting groundwater resources.
Yet this new study, published in Earth System Dynamics, reveals that depletion is not as widespread as reported, and that replenishment of groundwater storage depends upon extreme rainfall that is increasing under global climate change.
Aquifer depletion is occurring only in 5 localities.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday August 29 2020, @05:53PM (5 children)
Rivers are basically open sewers... just ask the mountain goats where they piss.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday August 29 2020, @06:08PM (4 children)
Shhhhhh!!! You'll create mass hysteria! Don't let the masses know that much of their water comes from "reservoirs" where there is legislation saying that no fecal matter is allowed to fall in, not from birds, nor animals, nor humans, not even worms.
Okay, /s and all, but all kinds of bad stuff gets into rivers and reservoirs and even aquifers, from which the water is "treated" with chlorine and I don't know what else but that's "tap" water.
Keeps the immune system exercised and invigorated. :)
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday August 29 2020, @07:06PM (3 children)
Not when it's treated with chlorine...
Now, our well water aging tank - that has hanging slime gardens in it (no sunlight allowed, so they're not green slime...) I figure since we're not dead yet, that must be friendly slime and is likely to overcome any stray lizard poo bacteria that finds its way in there. That's how I keep our kids' immune systems exercised.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday August 30 2020, @01:14AM (2 children)
Especially when it's treated with chlorine! It's like jogging- you can jog on a flat surface, or you can jog up hills for a much better workout. Or athletic training- you can do so at sea level or at 12,000 feet for real strength and endurance. :)
Not sure how serious you are about the Hanging Gardens of Babbling in your tank, but I'm glad you're doing something to strengthen those immune systems. I got into a lot of things as a kid, including eating dirt a few times, and I seem to have a really strong immune system, and _no_ allergies. (As wacky as I can be, I'm 100% serious).
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday August 30 2020, @01:33AM (1 child)
The kids do pretty good as far as immunity / allergies go - although, they're kids - I seem to recall stepping on a rusty nail that put an orange mark on the back of my big toenail and not telling my parents because I didn't want the hassle that would inevitably ensue, not dead of tetanus yet...
I still fail to see how consumption of chlorine ripped gunk is training the immune system "better" than letting in live stuff that can reproduce?
One of my favorite quotes discouraging tongue piercings is the mouth bacteria found in the brains of people with tongue piercings... sometimes it gets out of hand in there.
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(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday August 30 2020, @03:22AM
Immune system must learn of all attack vectors, including mutant zombie bacteria which survive chlorine. GGGRRRRR!!!!!
I wonder which is cause and which is effect...
Either way, seems to be a vicious cycle.