The Drought No One Is Talking About, Here Anyway
by Jeff Davis
While the mighty American people sat glued to their televisions watching the Prison Perils of Paris and waiting to see if Tony Soprano finally gets whacked, the Independent newspaper in Britain reported that: “America is facing its worst summer drought since the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Or perhaps worse still.” Odd. American newspapers and television commentators seem to have missed that little story.
According to the Independent: “From the mountains and desert of the West, now into an eighth consecutive dry year, to the wheat farms of Alabama, where crops are failing because of rainfall levels 12 inches lower than usual, to the vast soupy expanse of Lake Okeechobee in southern Florida, which has become so dry it actually caught fire a couple of weeks ago, a continent is crying out for water. In the south-east, usually a lush, humid region, it is the driest few months since records began in 1895. California and Nevada, where burgeoning population centres co-exist with an often harsh, barren landscape, have seen less rain over the past year than at any time since 1924. The Sierra Nevada range, which straddles the two states, received only 27 per cent of its usual snowfall in winter, with immediate knock-on effects on water supplies for the populations of Las Vegas and Los Angeles.”
Anyone who lives in the Southwest is aware of the drought, and anyone who lives there also knows at least one of the major causes of the drought. We have twenty million illegal aliens overloading the infrastructure and turning a minor problem into a major problem. In San Antonio the aquifers get lower each year as the illegal Mexican population rises. In the famed Texas hill country, the rivers where vacationers used to go tubing down the rapids are drying up into mud puddles. The once mighty Rio Grande, which in the past really WAS the Big River of its name, is now a trickling sewer. South Texas, which used to grow crops like watermelons, zucchini, and peaches, has become desert landscape because the massive Mexican population on both sides of the border simply uses up all the water. (more…)