GregCocks, 5 months ago to california

Who Gets The Water In California? Whoever Gets There First

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/14/climate/california-water-crisis-drought.html <-- shared media article

#GIS #spatial #mapping #waterresources #waterresourcemanagement #waterrights #California #CA #USA #regulations #management #water #hydrology #hydrogeology #groundwater #surfacewater #climatechange #watersecurity #watersector #agriculture #farming #food #foodsecurity #ranching #ecosystems #habitat #drought #extremeweather #flooding #development #overpumping #extraction #subsidence #limitedresources

map - California - declining (and rising) groundwater levels
map - California - 2020s surface water claims
photo - old / hard copy water resources record map

exador23, 9 months ago to climate

S&P Global has completed a look at the #LimitedResources needed by the #ClimateChange incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act for EVs and #renewableEnergy.

"energy-transition-related US demand for the critical
minerals lithium, nickel and cobalt, taken together, will be 23 times higher in 2035 than it was in 2021. For copper, it will be twice as high. This is equivalent to
compound annual growth rates of 25% for the three critical minerals and 4% for copper." Most of that is for EV batteries

exador23, 9 months ago to random

Still looking for a good hashtag to file all these #LimitedResources stories under. It's the problem that is just mostly ignored via magical thinking. "The entire fleet needs to be #EVs" is met with hurrahs. Very few people realize what that means in terms of #resource #extraction, the hard limits on #lithium or #RareEarth reserves or refining capacity or GeoPolitics.

We can't consume our way out of something that is an #OverConsumption problem at its core.

aral, 10 months ago to random

So how’s infinite growth with finite resources workin’ out for y’all?

#capitalism #growth