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Monday, July 25, 2011

Posted 7/25/2011 05:29:00 PM by Douglas

Much with peak oil, no one really knows when "peak water" is going to hit and the Ogallala Aquifer dries up. But there's no reason to think that water is finding its way back into the ground nearly as fast as it's being pumped out. But no one will ever forget the day it dries up.

Happy's problem is that it has run out of water for its farms. Its population, dropping 10 per cent a year, is down to 595. The name, which brings a smile for miles around and plays in faded paint on the fronts of every shuttered business – Happy Grain Inc, Happy Game Room – has become irony tinged with bitterness. It goes back to the cowboy days of the 19th century. A cattle drive north through the Texas Panhandle to the rail heads beyond had been running out of water, steers dying on the hoof, when its cowboys stumbled on a watering hole. They named the spot Happy Draw, for the water. Now Happy is the harbinger of a potential Dust Bowl unseen in America since the Great Depression.

And it kinda drones on for 3,000 more words to get at relatively simple point: There's too many damn people drinkin' out of the well. So what's to be done? What can be done? No one drawing out of it today would be able to say they can stop and sustain the population and agriculture that exists currently, so that ain't going to happen. But mother nature is keeping score, and when that day comes that another acre foot can't be pumped out of it, plan to be somewhere else.

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