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Precipitation in the U.S. has increased an average of 5% in the past 50 years. Models show Northern areas getting wetter, while the South and West grow drier...
Water Woes. Precipitation will generally become heavier in northern areas, and will tend to fall in severe downpours, leading to more widespread flooding. Meanwhile, the South - and especially the Southwest - will become drier. That's alarming because the Southwest and Southeast, where populations are growing faster than in any other U.S. region, are already struggling with drought...
...Fortunately, even a drier, more crowded world should still have enough water to meet its needs, provided the supply is regulated well on both national and international levels. That can include stiffer regulations against industrial pollution (plus policies that ensure dirty water is employed for nonvital uses like landscaping) and more efficient agricultural practices, such as drip irrigation, that would cut down on the enormous amount of water wasted in farming. More rational pricing of water, even in poor nations, can help reduce misuse on the farms and in the cities...
...much of a difference either - if the pine needles' pores are closed to prevent water loss, CO2 simply won't get in. Even more worrisome, the PNAS study doesn't take into account possible changes in precipitation patterns in a warmer future, which many climate models say could be drier, exacerbating the impacts of higher temperatures. "We can envision the landscape getting hammered over and over again," says Breshears...
Water-strapped Singapore already uses a similar process to augment its reservoirs, and water managers from around the globe have been visiting Orange County to study GRS. Especially in the drier parts of the world - such as the American Southwest, northern China amd the Middle East - water recycling could be a way to allow development without turning to even more expensive methods of water reclamation, like desalinization. But what we really need to do is treat water as the limited resource it is, first by limiting pollution, then by reusing it as much as possible. The U.N.'s Barlow - whose...