The Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out Of Water

It is unclear to me why people don't realize that the basis of our problems lie in human overpopulation.  The Earth is finite resource.  There is not an unlimited supply of anything.  Our most precious resource, water is disappearing.  The majority of the world population does not have enough clean water to drink. Many aquifers are depleted or very close to being depleted.  Much of the fresh water we do have is contaminated by toxins from eenvironmental accidents, toxins from landfills, and toxins in our waste water run-off.  If we continue our abusing the planet this way and population growth continues, the cost of water will one day rival the cost of oil.  This is global problem that will effect generations to come.

The following is an excerpt from "The ten biggest American cities that are running our of water" by Charles B. Stockdale, Michael B. Sauter, Douglas A. McIntyre

Some parts of the United States have begun to run low on water. That is probably not much of a surprise to people who live in the arid parts of America that have had water shortages for decades or even centuries. No one who has been to the Badlands in South Dakota would expect to be able to grow crops there.The water problem is worse than most people realize, particularly in several large cities which are occasionally low on water now and almost certainly face shortfalls in a few years. This is particularly true if the change in global weather patterns substantially alters rainfall amounts in some areas of the US

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