Fears Of A "Return Of The 1930s Dust Bowl"

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[rdinatal]

As one commented...

"I hate to break it to you guys, but the SW US is a desert."

 

[JohnFreeman]

"New Mexico State Engineer John D'Antonio Jr. has requested farmers not to plant this year due to dangerously low levels at the state's reservoirs. "

Please just starve.

 

[GymB]

"New Mexico State Engineer John D'Antonio Jr. has requested farmers not to plant this year due to dangerously low levels at the state's reservoirs. "

Please just starve.

Well, they made farms in the desert. Hope they don’t expect taxpayers to subsidize water for irrigation.

Texas is developing the same issue, I expect whole towns to dry up and blow away.

 

[JohnFreeman]

There's not a lot of farms in NM. What few are there are typically subsistence level family farms that are near sources of surface water .

(the history of the "acequia" system is interesting and still practiced)

 

[ChickenHawk]

Saw an article about 10 years ago on how low the aquifer that supplies most of the Midwest was getting low as it wasn't being replenished as quick as the water was used. That happens and we will have a dust bowel. I haven't seen anything since then though.

 

[GymB]

There's not a lot of farms in NM. What few are there are typically subsistence level family farms that are near sources of surface water .

(the history of the "acequia" system is interesting and still practiced)

In that case my apologies, I thought that NM was fed by the same closed aquifer that feeds west TX and that they were similarly exploiting it for commercial agriculture.