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Wednesday 24th of April 2024

Water And then there's the rising crisis of affordability. With federal funding cut to a dribble, utilities have tried to fill in with constant hikes in water bills. Our average monthly rate has jumped more than a third since 2012, and analysts estimate that within three years up to 36% of households won't be able to afford drinking water. The American Water Works Association reports that income fully covers costs in only one in five systems, and four out of five large utilities expect they will not be able to provide full service five years from now. Hightower Lowdown, May 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Water 0  Many of the aquifers that supply 90 percent of the nation’s water systems, and which have transformed vast stretches of America into some some of world’s most bountiful farmland, are being severely depleted. These declines are threatening irreversible harm to the American economy and society as a whole. … Of the nation’s 143,070 water systems, 128,362 rely primarily on groundwater, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. New York Times, August 28, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Water  One study found that 88 percent of water in  17 Western states was used by agriculture. Only 7 percent was consumed by homes. Alfalfa fields single-handedly drank up al-  most three times as much as all households. California produces a bounty of almonds, which gulp about 3.2 gallons of water for each almond, according to a 2019 study. Researchers say that the Southwest is experiencing a megadrought that is the worst in at least 1,200 years. Wells have been drying up as far north as Oregon, and the Great Salt Lake in Utah has shrunk by two-thirds. Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, May 15, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Water There is not enough rain, so their only option is to migrate. Principal of a rural middle school in the Guatemalan highlands, where drought and winds destroyed successive corn crops, speaking about his students. Quoted by Nicholas Kristof, New York Times, June 5, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com