As all our readers know today, for some unknown reason, ground sinks have become more frequent in the world - when a hole with a diameter from a meter to hundreds of meters is formed in the ground out of the blue. The "academicians" who run into the scene immediately explain this by "karst caves", "construction", "abandoned mines" and others. The general public nods their heads and agrees, because if some muzzle type with a beard and glasses broadcasts something on TV, he definitely knows what he is talking about.
However, no one really knows what is happening, and now we can only make assumptions. Nevertheless, at this particular moment it is no longer very important - what is happening and why? The main thing is the answer to the question: what will happen next?
And today, the answer to this question is to some extent demonstrated by strangesounds.org, which have made a good collection of photos of what is happening with water bodies around the world. We have adapted and expanded it somewhat, so let's now see: what is happening with water sources on the continents?
1. Lake Owens, California:
What happens to this lake and other “dead seas” of California is perfectly described by russian-bazaar.com: At the end of the 19th century, this closed lake was one of the largest natural reservoirs in California. Agriculture flourished around him, and the farmers were the wealthiest in the state. The lake was fed by the snow and glacier waters of the surrounding mountains of the eastern Sierra Nevada, carried by the Owens River. In 1913, due to the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, this river was diverted from the lake, as a result of which it practically disappeared by the mid-1920s., revealing a dry bottom covered with a salt crust. In its brine-like remains, only red salt bacteria live, which is why the lake was called Bloody.
2. Aral Sea, Kazakhstan:
Promotional video:
3. Dead Sea, Israel:
4. Lake Fagibin, Mali:
5. Assal is a crater lake in the central part of Djibouti, located in the Afar depression 155 m below sea level, it is the lowest point in Africa and the largest salt lake in Djibouti.
6. Lake Chad is a closed relict lake, located in central Africa in the territory of four countries: Chad, Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria.
7. Urmia is an internal-drainage salt lake located in the Armenian Highlands, in the north-west of Iran.
8. Poyanghu - the largest or second largest freshwater lake in China, located in Jiangxi province on the right bank of the Yangtze River.
9. Chapala is the largest freshwater lake in Mexico.
10. Tuz is the second largest lake in Turkey. The salinity of the lake is 340 ‰. Located in the center of Anatolia province, 105 km north-east of Konya and 150 km south-east of Ankara. Strabo mentions the salt lake Tatt on the border of Galatia and Cappadocia:
11. Great Lakes:
12. Lena:
13. Volga:
As you can see, the problem of continental water loss has long been a worldwide problem. Everything dries up and grows shallow, starting from Baikal and ending with some meter-wide village rivers.
At one time, “academics” explained all this by human activity, but even housewives in Mexico have long understood that seven billion Pithecanthropus are not capable of such sabotage. You can write off everything at the hydroelectric power station in the case of the Nile, where people sit on each other's heads, but why is Lena shallow? Are there any new hydroelectric power stations there? Or do people carry buckets of water to their gardens?
Since the academic explanation about gardens in the taiga does not roll, the luminaries of science came up with a new explanation - global warming, due to which water evaporates.
Well, with warming everything seems to be logical, but only in Delhi yesterday morning it was plus seven, in the Sahara it snows every year, and in the coast of California the bays begin to freeze. It doesn't look like warming.
In addition, the seas and oceans contain the same water as in the Aral Sea and, in theory, they should also dry up when warming. But with the seas, on the contrary, their level rises, so residents of the Florida coast are already buying some kind of boats to get to work, and people in Venice are changing from gondolas to submarines. And the same thing happens in Holland, in Britain, where sheep stand in a barn up to their necks in water, in other places. In general, the evaporation of water is not like this.
This raises the question: what then has a reasonable explanation for what is happening? The explanation here is the solution to the problem of the movement of water in three-dimensional space. The water in it can move either sideways (canals, reclamation, dams), or up (evaporation from global warming) or down. Therefore, if the movement to the sides and upward is not enough for the disappearance of water on the observed scale, where does the water go?
That's right - the water flows down somewhere, that is, underground. And it flows through the very holes in the ground that no one really sees in water bodies - they are noticeable only when they appear on the road or when the hole is so large that an entire lagoon flows into it, breaking the forest. At the same time, a full-time NASA photographer or at least a forester with a phone should still be on duty on the spot:
The fact that all this will end with a shortage of fresh water on the planet is obvious to everyone, however, as can be seen from the comparative infographics above, it will not end in the distant 2100s, or even in 2050.
Most likely, with such dynamics and with such a pace, the battle of countries for fresh water sources is happening right now, only they don't talk about it on TV and therefore no one sees anything. But when a liter of water costs like a liter of gasoline, then everyone will see the truth, so we follow the development of events.