These Maps of California’s Water Shortage Are Terrifying

Greetings,

(Note: If you thought that Messenger Elijah Muhammad’s teachings on the dreadfulness of the intense drought ,that would ravage America, was a joke i advise you to think again. It is super serious. You are seeing and feeling it now.

The reality of just how bad things are and how bad they are expected to become has the entire nation living in fear and dread. The weapons of war used by God in the past history of the destruction of the enemies of God – such as Noah’s people, Lot’s people, and Moses’ people – are an example of what he will use today. The weapons are the forces of nature against which we have no defense.

He warned you that…”A terrific drought is on its way, too against America. The Book must be fulfilled. The Bible and the Holy Qur’an both refer to all that I have said.

This is the divine judgement to bring vicious America to her knees.”–pg.53(tfoa)

We now see the clear evidence of this divine truth for ourselves…..)

These Maps of California’s Water Shortage Are Terrifying

Just how bad is California’s water shortage? Really, really bad, according to these new maps, which represent groundwater withdrawals in California during the first three years of the state’s ongoing and epochal drought:

Images by J.T. Reager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, from “The Global Groundwater Crisis,” Nature Climate Change, November 2014, by James S. Famiglietti
The maps come from a new paper in Nature Climate Change by NASA water scientist James Famiglietti. “California’s Sacramento and San Joaquin river basins have lost roughly 15 cubic kilometers of total water per year since 2011,” he writes. That’s “more water than all 38 million Californians use for domestic and municipal supplies annually—over half of which is due to groundwater pumping in the Central Valley.”

Famiglietti uses satellite data to measure how much water people are sucking out of the globe’s aquifers, and summarized his research in his new paper.

More than 2 billion people rely on water pumped from aquifers as their primary water source, Famiglietti writes. Known as groundwater (as opposed to surface water, the stuff that settles in lakes and flows in streams and rivers), it’s also the source of at least half the irrigation water we rely on to grow our food. When drought hits, of course, farmers rely on groundwater even more, because less rain and snow means less water flowing above ground.

The lesson Famiglietti draws from satellite data is chilling: “Groundwater is being pumped at far greater rates than it can be naturally replenished, so that many of the largest aquifers on most continents are being mined, their precious contents never to be returned.”

The Central Valley boasts some of the globe’s fastest-depleting aquifers—but by no means the fastest overall. Indeed, it has a rival here in the United States. The below graphic represents depletion rates at some of the globe’s largest aquifers, nearly all of which Famiglietti notes, “underlie the world’s great agricultural regions and are primarily responsible for their high productivity.”….MORE HERE

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