Water
Data Centers and Chip Makers that Control the Internet Are Facing a Water Crisis
There are approximately 1,800 data centers in the US that house the computers that feed the Internet and power business computing across the nation. This is a linchpin of the economy. A little-known fact is that these data centers generate huge amounts of heat due to the massive amounts of power consumed. Thus, water becomes…
Read MoreHas Deep Seated Water from the Tonga Volcanic Eruption Caused Australia’s Flooding?
In January of this year, a volcano erupted in Tonga in the Pacific Ocean with a force as powerful as the eruption of Krakatoa in 1886. It also set the altitude record for producing a plume of smoke that reached 35 miles (58 kilometers) into the stratosphere. However, that plume of “smoke” was comprised mostly…
Read MoreDeep Seated Water Aquifer Providing Billions of Gallons of Fresh Water to Chicago
As much of the planet struggles with drought, a Deep Seated Water aquifer has been providing Chicago and parts of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, and Indiana with hundreds of billions of gallons of fresh water. The “Deep Sandstone Aquifer” (technically known as the Cambrian-Ordovician Sandstone Aquifer System) has been supplying increasing amounts of fresh water for…
Read MoreUS Drought Marches East – Now the Mississippi is Threatened
Many of us are aware of the severe drought challenges affecting over 30 million people in the US Southwest, but what is even more alarming, and not as well known, is that the massive drought has now reached the “Mighty Mississippi” river. America’s largest river, located in the center of the country, is facing unprecedented…
Read MoreThere is a Solution to the Current Global Drought
The global drought crisis is impacting the world’s largest economies, as reported in the Wall Street Journal and many other publications last week. With the US, China, and Europe facing historic drought it means nearly everyone on the planet will be affected. And that impact is just getting started as crops wither and livestock is…
Read MoreDrought Goes Global in 2022, and the Implications are Ominous
When the Wall Street Journal, perhaps the world’s premier financial publication, put this headline on the front page yesterday, you know there is a big problem. “Droughts Take Widening Toll on World’s Largest Economies” WSJ article. The headline tells a dismal story. If the world’s largest economies (US, China, Europe) are suffering, then the rest…
Read MoreNew Scientific Evidence For Deep Seated Water From “Mantle Rain”
Scientists are reporting more evidence that an ocean of water exists in the upper layers of the Earth’s mantle and that this water is being drawn upwards towards the surface as “mantle rain.” As reported in Smithsonian Magazine and published in Science Direct, geoscientists in France have developed a new model that shows how water-rich…
Read MoreTexas Declares Drought Disaster Across State – Does It Have To Be This Bad?
On July 8, Governor Greg Abbott issued a proclamation declaring a state of disaster in over 170 counties in Texas based on the “existence of serious drought conditions that pose an imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property.” Texas drought disaster proclamation. The drought map above says it…
Read MoreFinding Groundwater Where Others Say “There Is None”
The current drought crisis is afflicting large portions of the planet, from the Western United States and Southern Europe to North Africa and the Middle East – making finding groundwater painful. In many of these locations experts have said, “No groundwater exists here” or the water table has dropped so low that it is impracticable…
Read MoreNew Sources of Water Will Solve The Water Crisis
The world’s freshwater problem is making global headlines as the crisis worsens planet-wide making new sources of water critical. But what is not discussed enough are the solutions to the problem. The fact is, there is a solution, and we’re sitting on it. Vast new sources of fresh groundwater are being discovered on an accelerating…
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