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Growing Water Deficit Threatening Grain Harvests
| Growing Water Deficit Threatening Grain Harvests www.earth-policy.org/book_bytes/2011/wotech2_ss2 By Lester R. Brown |
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| Many countries are facing dangerous water shortages. As world demand for food has soared, millions of farmers have drilled too many irrigation wells in efforts to expand their harvests. As a result, water tables are falling and wells are going dry in some 20 countries containing half the world’s people. The overpumping of aquifers for irrigation temporarily inflates food production, creating a food production bubble that bursts when the aquifer is depleted.
The shrinkage of irrigation water supplies in the big three grain-producing countries — the United States, India, and China – is of particular concern. Thus far, these countries have managed to avoid falling harvests at the national level, but continued overexploitation of aquifers could soon catch up with them. In most of the leading U.S. irrigation states, the irrigated area has peaked and begun to decline. In California, historically the irrigation leader, a combination of aquifer depletion and the diversion of irrigation water to fast-growing cities has reduced irrigated area from nearly 9 million acres in 1997 to an estimated 7.5 million acres in 2010. (One acre equals 0.4 hectares.) In Texas, the irrigated area peaked in 1978 at 7 million acres, falling to some 5 million acres as the Ogallala aquifer underlying much of the Texas panhandle was depleted. Other states with shrinking irrigated area include Arizona, Colorado, and Florida. All three states are suffering from both aquifer depletion and the diversion of irrigation water to urban centers. And now that the states that were rapidly expanding their irrigated area, such as Nebraska and Arkansas, are starting to level off, the prospects for any national growth in irrigated area have faded. With water tables falling as aquifers are depleted under the Great Plains and California’s Central Valley, and with fast-growing cities in the Southwest taking more and more irrigation water, the U.S. irrigated area has likely peaked. India is facing a much more difficult situation. A World Bank study reported in 2005 that the grain supply for 175 million Indians was produced by overpumping water. Water tables are falling in several states, includingPunjab and Haryana, two surplus grain producers that supply most of the wheat and much of the rice used in India’s massive food distribution program for low-income consumers. Up-to-date and reliable information is not always easy to get. But it is clear that overpumping is extensive, water tables are falling, wells are going dry, and farmers who can afford to are drilling ever deeper wells in what has been described as “a race to the bottom.” Based on studies by independent researchers, there is ample reason to think that decades of overpumping in key states are leading to aquifer depletion on a scale that is reducing the irrigation water supply. India’s water-based food bubble may be about to burst. In China, the principal concern is the northern half of the country, where rainfall is low and water tables are falling everywhere. This includes the highly productive North China Plain, which stretches from just north ofShanghai to well north of Beijing and which produces half of the country’s wheat and a third of its corn. Overpumping there suggests that some 130 million Chinese are being fed with grain produced with the unsustainable use of water. Furthermore, China’s water-short cities and rapidly growing industrial sector are taking an ever-greater share of the available surface and underground water resources. In many situations, growth in urban and industrial demand for water can be satisfied only by diverting water from farmers. Although new dams being built in the mountainous southwest may offset at least some of the losses elsewhere, it is possible that the irrigated area has peaked in China — and therefore in all three of the leading grain-producing countries. Water shortages are most immediately affecting food security in the Middle East. In 2008, Saudi Arabiabecame the first country in the world to acknowledge its bursting food bubble when it announced that the aquifer supporting its wheat production was largely depleted. Saudi Arabia is now phasing out wheat production and could be totally dependent on foreign grain as soon as 2013. And in Yemen, water tables are falling by some 2 meters per year. The Yemeni grain harvest has shrunk by one third over the last 40 years, forcing the country to import more than 80 percent of its grain. Both Syria and Iraq – the other two populous countries in the region — have water troubles. Some of these arise from the reduced flows of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, which both countries depend on for irrigation water. Turkey, which controls the headwaters of these rivers, is in the midst of a massive dam building program that is slowly reducing downstream flows. Although all three countries are party to water-sharing arrangements, Turkey’s ambitious plans to expand both hydropower and irrigation are being fulfilled partly at the expense of its two downstream neighbors. Mindful of the future uncertainty of river water supplies, farmers in Syria and Iraq are drilling more wells for irrigation. This is leading to overpumping and an emerging water-based food bubble in both countries. Syria’s grain harvest has fallen by one fifth since peaking at roughly 7 million tons in 2001. In Iraq, the grain harvest has fallen by one fourth since peaking at 4.5 million tons in 2002. Jordan is also on the ropes agriculturally. Forty or so years ago, it was producing over 300,000 tons of grain annually. Today it produces only 60,000 tons and thus must import over 90 percent of its grain. In Israel, which banned the irrigation of wheat in 2000 to save water, production of grain has been falling since 1983. Israel now imports 98 percent of the grain it consumes. To the east, water supplies are also tightening in Iranand Afghanistan. An estimated one fifth of Iran’s 75 million people are being fed with grain produced by overpumping, making its food bubble the largest in the region. Afghanistan, a landlocked country with a fast-growing population, is already importing a third of its grain from abroad. Thus in the Middle East, where populations are growing fast, the world is seeing the first collision between population growth and water supply at the regional level. Because of the failure of governments in the region to mesh population and water policies, each day now brings 10,000 more people to feed and less irrigation water with which to feed them. Thus far the countries where shrinking water resources are actually reducing grain harvests are all ones with smaller populations. But middle-sized countries such as Pakistan and Mexico are also overpumping their aquifers to feed growing populations. Pakistan, struggling to remain self-sufficient in wheat, appears to be losing the battle. Its population of 185 million in 2010 is projected to reach 246 million by 2025, which means trying to feed 61 million more people in 15 years. But water levels in wells are already falling by a meter or more each year around the twin citiesof Islamabad and Rawalpindi. They are also falling under the fertile Punjab plain, which Pakistan shares with India. A World Bank report, Pakistan’s Water Economy: Running Dry, sums up the situation: “the survival of a modern and growing Pakistan is threatened by water.” In Mexico, home to 111 million people, the demand for water is outstripping supply. In the agricultural state ofGuanajuato, the water table is falling by 6 feet or more a year. In the northwestern wheat-growing state ofSonora, farmers once pumped water from the Hermosillo aquifer at a depth of 40 feet. Today, they pump from over 400 feet. With 51 percent of all water extraction in Mexico from aquifers that are being overpumped, Mexico’s food bubble may burst soon. If business as usual continues, the question for each country overpumping its aquifers is not whether its food bubble will burst, but when — and how the government will cope with it. For some countries, the bursting of the bubble may well be catastrophic. And the near-simultaneous bursting of several national food bubbles could create unmanageable food shortages, posing an imminent threat to global food security and political stability. # # #
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Water – Blue Gold
Definition: “World Water War”
“This is a term devised by environmentalists for a type of conflict (most probably a form of guerrilla warfare) due to an acute shortage of water for drinking and irrigation. About 40 per cent of the world’s populations are already affected to some degree, but population growth, climate change and rises in living standards will worsen the situation: the UN Environment Agency warns that almost 3 billion people will be severely short of water within 50 years. Possible flash points have been predicted in the Middle East, parts of Africa and in many of the world’s major river basins, including the Danube. The term has been used for some years to describe disputes in the southern and south-western United States over rights to water extraction from rivers and aquifers.” –Michael Quinion, World Wide Words, 1996-2006.
Blue Gold – The global water crisis and the commodification of the world’s water supply
A Special Report issued by the International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
by Maude Barlow
National Chairperson, Council of Canadians
Chair, International Forum on Globalization (IFG) Committee
on the Globalization of Water
Spring 2001
INTRODUCTION
THE CRISIS
THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION
THE WATER PRIVATEERS
THE GLOBAL TRADE IN WATER
THE FAILURE OF GOVERNMENTS
THE THREAT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS
THE NEED FOR COMMON PRINCIPLES
CONCLUSION
America’s breadbasket aquifer running dry
(NaturalNews) It’s the largest underground freshwater supply in the world, stretching from South Dakota all the way to Texas. It’s underneath most of Nebraska’s farmlands, and it provides crucial water resources for farming in Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and even New Mexico. It’s called the Ogallala Aquifer, and it is being pumped dry.
See the map of this aquifer here:http://www.naturalnews.com/images/O…
Without the Ogallala Aquifer,America’s heartland food production collapses. No water means no irrigation for the corn, wheat, alfalfa and other crops grown across these states to feed people and animals. And each year, the Ogallala Aquifer drops another few inches as it is literally being sucked dry by the tens of thousands of agricultural wells that tap into it across the heartland of America.
This problem with all this is thatthe Ogallala Aquifer isn’t being rechargedin any significant way from rainfall or rivers. This is so-called “fossil water” because once you use it, it’s gone. And it’s disappearing now faster than ever.
In some regions along the aquifer, the water level has dropped so far that it has effectively disappeared — places likeHappy, Texas, where a once-booming agricultural town has collapsed to a population of just 595. All the wells drilled there in the 1950′s tapped into the Ogallala Aquifer and seemed to provide abundant water at the time. But todaythe wells have all run dry.
Happy, Texas has become a place of despair. Dead cattle. Wilted crops. Once-moist soils turned to dust. And Happy is just the beginning of this story becausethis same agricultural tragedy will be repeated across Oklahoma, Nebraska, Kansas and parts of Coloradoin the next few decades. That’s a hydrologic fact. Water doesn’t magically reappear in the Ogallala. Once it’s used up, it’s gone.
“There used to be 50,000 head of cattle, now there’s 1,000,” says Kay Horner in aTelegraphreport (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/83…). “Grazed them on wheat, but the feed lots took all the water so we can’t grow wheat. Now the feed lots can’t get local steers so they bring in cheap unwanted milking calves from California and turn them into burger if they can’t make them veal. It doesn’t make much sense. We’re heading back to the Dust Bowl.”
The end of cheap food in America?
It’s a sobering thought, really: That “America’s breadbasket” is on a collision course with the inevitable. A large percentage of the food produced in the United States is, of course, grown on farmlands irrigated from the Ogallala. For hundreds of years, it has been a source of “cheap water,” making farming economically feasible and keeping food prices down. Combined with the available of cheap fossil fuels over the last century (necessary to drive the tractors that work the fields), food production has skyrocketed in North America. This has led to apopulation explosion, too. Where food is cheap and plentiful, populations readily expand.
It only follows that when food becomes scarce or expensive (putting it out of reach of average income earners),populations will fall. There’s only so much food to go around, after all. And after the Ogallala runs dry, America’s food production will plummet. Starvation will become the new American landscape for those who cannot afford the sky-high prices for food.
Aquifer depletion is a global problem
It’s not a problem that’s unique to America, by the way. The very same problem is facing India, where fossil water is already running dry in many parts of the country. It’s the same story in China, too, where water conservation has never been a top priority. Even the Middle East is facing its own water crisis (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/…). This has caused food prices to skyrocket, leading directly to the civil unrest, the riots and even the revolutions we’ve seen taking place there over the last few months.
The problem is calledaquifer depletion(http://www.eoearth.org/article/Aqui…), and it’s a problem that spans the globe. It means that today’s cheap, easy food — grown on cheap fossil water — simply isn’t sustainable. Once that water is gone, the croplands that depend on it dry up. Following that, erosion kicks in, and the winds blow away the dry soils in a “Dust Bowl” type of scenario.
A few years after that, what was once a thriving agricultural operation is transformed into a dry, soilless death pit where nothing lives.
“The Ogallala supply is going to run out and the Plains will become uneconomical to farm,” says David Brauer of the Ogallala Research Service, part of the USDA. “That is beyond reasonable argument. Our goal now is to engineer a soft landing. That’s all we can do.” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/83…)
Such is the legacy ofconventional agriculture, which is based almost entirely on non-sustainable practices. Its insane reliance on fossil water, petroleum fertilizers, toxic pesticides and GMOs will only lead our world toagricultural disaster.
Be prepared and be safe
I want all NaturalNews readers to be prepared, informed and safe when facing our uncertain future. We know that trouble is stirring around the world, and much of it is either caused by or will lead tofood shortages.
The GMO companies, of course, will exploit this situation to their advantage, claiming that only GMOs can grow enough food to feed the world. This is a lie. GMOs and patented seeds onlyenslavethe world population and lead to great social injustice. The days offood slaveryare fast approaching for those who do not have the means to grow at least a portion of their own food.
As part of our effort to help people become more self-reliant — with greater food security — throughout 2011 and 2012 I plan to bring you more articles, videos and webcast events that focus onhome food production, self-reliance, family preparedness and sustainable living. Recently we announced a live webcast event onfinancial preparednessbut the available seats at that eventsold outin a matter of days (http://www.naturalnews.com/Economic…).
Based on the huge demand for this event, we have decided to roll out a second preparedness event in April, focused onfood preparedness and security. Watch for an announcement on that soon.
In the mean time, I am personally working ongrowing more of my own foodand will be creating a new series of videos and articles based on some of what I learn along the way. From living in South America and producing quite a large amount of food there, I have a fair amount of experience on home food production, but of course there’s always more to learn, right?
My gut feeling on all this is that learning togrow and store some portion of your own foodis going to become a crucial survival skill over the next few years. And that means understanding water, soil, open-pollinated seeds, organic fertilizers, soil probiotics, insect pollination, growing with the seasons, sprouting, food harvesting, food drying, canning, storage and much more. It’s a whole set of skills that have faded away in America in just two generations, leaving very few people who now know how to live off their own land.
What’s becoming increasingly obvious from events such as the drying up of aquifers is thathome food production is going to become a critical survival skill. I want NaturalNews readers to know and practice these skills as much as possible so that you can experience the comforts (and freedoms!) of genuine food security.
Learn more:http://www.naturalnews.com/031658_aquifer_depletion_Ogallala.html#ixzz1GDxFL0Fz
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Global fresh water supplies are incessantly being stressed out by increasing demands from the growing population and higher needs for cleanliness, hygiene, food and industry.
Despite the fact that the world’s population tripled in the 20th century, the use of renewable water resources has grown six-fold and within next 50 years, the world population would increase by another 40 to 50 per cent.
As per this report, a billion people in the world do not have access to safe water, which was approximately one sixth of the world’s population. About 1.8 million people die every year as a result of diseases caused by dirty water and poor sanitation, which amounted to around 5,000 deaths a day.
Washing hands with soap and water can diminish diarrheas cases by over 40 per cent, since water-related infection was the principal killer of children worldwide, followed by respiratory infections like tuberculosis.
However, water crisis is the biggest dilemma of today. So many other problems are linked with it. It is high time for everybody to ponder over this issue and resort to corrective measures. In that case only, existence of the human being will remain intact in the future too.