Back in 1984 the idea of water scarcity was the stuff of science fiction. In that year Robert Urich starred in a Science Fiction Comedy “B” movie called “Ice Pirates”. The film takes place in a future where water is an immensely valuable substance, both as a commodity and as a currency. In today’s article […]
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Will the US Face Blackouts as Electricity Generation Suffers in Drought? Well, its official – the U.S. government has acknowledged that the U.S. is in the worst drought in over 50 years, since December 1956, when about 58 percent of the contiguous U.S. was in moderate to extreme drought. According to the National Oceanic and
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In desert regions water has been a critical commodity ever since Abraham’s herdsmen fought with Abimilech’s herdsmen over a well in Genesis 21:25. But in many places water has been abundant. Although, with the vast majority of water being either salt water, frozen in ice caps or polluted, the potable water world-wide is only a small percentage of
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