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setmysoulfree2 t1_isss683 wrote

Reply to comment by Huge_Requirement9200 in Wifey got this little gem on our way to Vegas. by yahbishyou

Scary isn't it ?

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Huge_Requirement9200 t1_ist1ebz wrote

Alarming.

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setmysoulfree2 t1_ist2b5g wrote

If you think about it, the glacial waters supply our under ground rivers for our drinking water. There will come a day, when there will not be enough water to source the ever increasing population of Puget Sound.

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DumbCoyotePup t1_ist3t3s wrote

It's almost like the oligarchy in our area needs to deter people.. awwh but their oversized wallets might hurrttssiiesss...

(I hate hate hate seeing new rabbit hutches for humans being built in my town. I'm fine with slowly a new house here and there but not fucking sims level of copy paste.)

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setmysoulfree2 t1_istneck wrote

The Puget Sound is growing like that of the San Francisco Bay Area. It's a matter of time, the cost of living will be the same as it is there. Very unfortunate.

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DumbCoyotePup t1_isue38t wrote

Can't wait for that to blend in with the meth/heroin problem in south Thurston/lewis county.

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iamlucky13 t1_isvcc8n wrote

Seattle's drinking water doesn't come from glaciers. The entirety of the Cedar River Watershed and the South Fork Tolt River Watershed are below 5500 feet. There's no glaciers there. Most of their area is below 4,000 feet. They typically have completed melting out by late May or early June, and the remaining inflows are from percolation through the ground.

These supplies last through the summer primarily based on storage behind a couple small dams on the upper reaches of Cedar and South Fork Tolt Rivers.

Seattle has had great success with conservation efforts delaying the point when demand from the growing population exceeds that supply. I think it's been pushed back literal decades, if I remember right. Climate change may accelerate it slightly again because the spring snowpack is effectively additional storage.

Regardless, whenever it happens, the response will be to raise the dams on either or both of those lakes to increase the storage capacity.

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setmysoulfree2 t1_isvhege wrote

Touche' !

I thank-you for your detailed information. I appreciate it. I have been educated.

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