3279 square miles (combined watershed for Lakes Houston and Conroe) = 91,413,273,600 square feet times 4.445 (number of feet of yearly rainfall according to article) = 406,332,001,152 (cubic feet of yearly rainfall) times 7.4805195 (number of gallons in a cubic foot) = 3,039,574,458,091.56 gallons of yearly rainfall in watershed divided by 2,257,926 (houston population according to article) equals 1,346,179 gallons of water per year for every man woman and child. Of course, the above is overly simplified, but our rainfall could be cut in half and we'd still have a lot of water. I'm not sure this article will garnish much sympathy by putting Houston at number two. Correction: I see they put Houston at number two because the rankings are by population. Still........I just don't see how Houston makes the list at all. We get a lot of precipitation.
I was just about to post that if you really want to scare Texans, you need to tell them they're running out of beer. Water? Pfftt. "wait...... Tharz water in beer?!"
Austin has access to lots of water, locked up for decades. Austin's potential problem would be other desperate cities, like San Antonio, for instance, trying to grab some of it. The Texas legislature is apt to do anything, given enough campaign contributions to the right members. I wish that weren't true, but it is. The Lege is Austin's biggest threat to its water supply. Serious as a heart attack.
I haven't read the article yet but I am not surprised. My guess is that the problem isn't that there isn't enough precipitation but that Houston's population is growing faster than the infrastructure to provide potable water. Drinking water and the lack of is a huge problem that is effecting all of humanity. Just because we can turn on our tap and drink from it doesn't mean we should take it for granted even in a wet climate like Houston. We can all take simple steps to reduce our water use such as putting out rain barrels to collect stormwater and use that to water your lawn. There is no reason at all to water your lawn with drinking water which what you do when you use water from the hose. For that matter having a brown lawn isn't the end of the world and cuts down on mowing.
Right - To get a little more detailed, you can blame it all on the Green Revolution and how farming is sucking the water from the Ogallala Aquifer. You can Google and do your own research for the details.
It's on the ballot in Marin county, CA. We can vote whether or not the Marin Municipal Water District has to get voter approval to start building a water desalination plant. It seems by saying voting that they don't have to get voter approval, you are voting for them to build the desalination plant.
Dude. I was kidding. No need to get political on an issue we all need to SURVIVE... now "health insurance" and making me pay for your LAZY ass... that's a different story... I kid. I kid.
Precisely what I meant...without listing any specifics. Central Texas is a water time bomb waiting to explode. The draining of Lake Travis in the near future will raise some eyebrows. The aquifer "rights" are going to doom SA (and surrounding municipalities) forever. How's that "river walk" workin' out for ya?
In the event that we run out of fresh water, we can just annex Canada. They have tons. .... as well as hot models. Spoiler
Weird list, I never have heard anyone in houston talking about a water shortage but it is #2. Here in Denver, water shortage is a widely discussed issue and it didn't even make the list
we are in better shape than some like china... them lil nigs will be importing water like its oil soon.
Don't forget Lake Livingston and if you needed it, Toledo Bend is close enough to pipeline it over. Water we got.
Livingston is fed by the Trinity...........that watershed could water the nation. No need for Toledo Bend.
