10 Major U.S. Cities Expected To Suffer Water Shortages, Starting in 2012

A report issued in October on water risk by environmental research and sustainability group Ceres and another study from the Natural Resources Defense Council were analyzed by 24/7 Wall Street which identified ten major cities at high risk of a water shortage. Dateline Zero notes that the report issues a warning that, beginning in 2012, at least 10 major cities will begin having crippling water shortages.

Also, there is another list of 7 major cities about to sink. Bangkok, Thailand is on the list, and could be under water sometime in the next decade.

I suspect that the 2012 phenomena is about a transition process (as opposed to things happening all at once) ... but wow. Major cities going underwater while other begin to dry up! That's quite a transition.

Originally posted by mother1138
A report issued in October on water risk by environmental research and sustainability group Ceres and another study from the Natural Resources Defense Council were analyzed by 24/7 Wall Street which identified ten major cities at high risk of a water shortage. Dateline Zero notes that the report issues a warning that, beginning in 2012, at least 10 major cities will begin having crippling water shortages.

Water shortages are an inevitable result of population growth, and these issues have to be dealt with, just as other cities in the U.S. and around the world have been doing throughout their respective histories. Such eventualities are unlikely to be all-at-once events, and for most regions it will come down to factors like rainfall and the capacity of local utility services.

Also, there is another list of 7 major cities about to sink. Bangkok, Thailand is on the list, and could be under water sometime in the next decade.

What does any of that have to do with 2012? For that matter, why is it surprising?

I suspect that the 2012 phenomena is about a transition process (as opposed to things happening all at once) ... but wow. Major cities going underwater while other begin to dry up! That's quite a transition.

"[The] 2012 phenomena" are more an exercise in imagination and deception than actual events outside of believers' minds (imagining and deceiving notwithstanding, of course). For example, even if we assume that every word in those articles is true and will accurately reflect future events, there is no inherent link to any 2012 "transition process" or "2012 phenomena." One must be invented and asserted. Perhaps the operative question is: why?

if you want to control people, control the water supply.

The water problem has been discussed for decades. The redistribution of water in the American Southwest has been an ongoing debate. There are ways to handle this including the construction of massive water pipelines down the continental shelf from Canada to the cities along the Pacific coast. The Colorado river no longer ends at the sea and the once fabulous marshes.

In the Middle East they say that the water in the Jordan River is used 9 times before it enters the sea. It is used to water plants, drink, irrigate more plants, drunk yet again, and so forth as it makes it way from the upper reaches of the river to the end.

This is an old story that is not going away anytime soon as populations explode.