Saturday, July 19, 2014

NBC News declares ‘billions could starve’ as America’s water aquifers run dry


In America, a crisis is unfolding right under the public’s feet. Water scarcity is beginning to creep into the Texas panhandle and the breadbasket region of the United States. A valuable aquifer that once provided water security is drying up beneath farmers’ feet as drought-like conditions linger.

“This country became what it became largely because we had water security,” says Venki Uddameri, Ph.D., director of the Water Resources Center at Texas Tech. “That’s being threatened to a large degree now .... http://www.naturalnews.com