[AuthorizedCust]

Texas is a big state. It’s lazy journalism to generalize the state as droughty, which is implied by that sentence.

Lake Texoma has been hovering by the “full” mark pretty consistently for over 55 years. Recently, its water level has significantly declined to—wait for it—100% full!

If you monitor water maps, the east half of Texas’s water supplies don’t often get far outside of “full”.

More data: https://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/texo...

[monero-xmr]

Also the water doesn’t disappear from the universe. It either evaporates or is pumped back out. People who lose their minds over water have been saying for 50 years we were about to enter a desert world

[rini17]

Clean water does disappear. Not from universe bit from places you need it most. That there's plenty of it in the air or sea or Saturn rings, is little consolation.

[tossandthrow]

You should definitely bring this attitude into the housing affordability discussion - remind people that they indeed can find cheap housing in rural Africa.

[ta20240528]

The Aral Sea says otherwise.

[IshKebab]

Do you really think that that's what the authors were thinking? You can't accuse people of not using their brains when you haven't engaged yours.

Also you seem to be unaware of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overdrafting