{"id":248,"date":"2018-09-04T00:29:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T00:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=248"},"modified":"2018-09-04T00:29:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T00:29:30","slug":"water-supplies-tracked-worldwide-landsats-thermal-band-mapping-the-world-bank-water-management-rothschild-and-many-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"WATER SUPPLIES &#8211; Tracked Worldwide: Landsat&#8217;s Thermal Band Mapping &#8211; The World Bank Water Management (Rothschild) and many others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/soc_0011.pdf\">https:\/\/landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/soc_0011.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Full paper in link above.<\/p>\n<p>Precious Resources: Water and Landsat\u2019s Thermal Band<br \/>\n\u201cChronic water supply problems in many areas of the West are among the<br \/>\ngreatest challenges we face in the coming decades.\u201d Mark Limbaugh, the U.S.<br \/>\nDepartment of the Interior\u2019s (DOI) Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, told<br \/>\nU.S. Senators in 2006.1<br \/>\nHe was largely echoing the findings of the DOI Water 2025 report. The report<br \/>\nexplains that if future conflict over water in the West is to be avoided, water<br \/>\nefficiency needs to improve.2<br \/>\nUntil then, conflict and environmental degradation<br \/>\nwill be the costs of the increasing demands\u2013\u2013dominated by agricultural irrigation<br \/>\nand swelling city populations\u2013\u2013on limited water supplies.<br \/>\nIrrigation: a numerical explanation<br \/>\nIrrigation accounts for 80% of fresh water use in the U.S3<br \/>\nand worldwide, the<br \/>\nWorld Bank estimates 70% of fresh water use is for agriculture.4<br \/>\nThe U.S. irrigates<br \/>\nover 50 million acres of agricultural land and 32 million acres of recreational<br \/>\nlandscapes (lawns, golf courses, etc.).5<br \/>\nThe total volume consumed by agriculture<br \/>\nand landscape irrigation is 50 trillion gallons per year;6<br \/>\nwestern states are<br \/>\nresponsible for 86% of that consumption.7<br \/>\nA growing problem<br \/>\nThe arid U.S. West is experiencing explosive population growth. The 2000<br \/>\nCensus reported that one third of all Americans live in the West, and that the West<br \/>\naccounted for half of the overall U.S. population growth over that decade.8<br \/>\nSeven of the ten fastest growing U.S. cities are found in the West and<br \/>\nAlbuquerque, El Paso, Las Vegas, and Tucson will not be able to supply enough<br \/>\nwater for their burgeoning growth with present sources.9<br \/>\nRecent drought brought<br \/>\nabout bitter legal battles for the precious water resources of the Rio Grande River<br \/>\nhighlighting that the river\u2019s waters are stretched thin between the city of<br \/>\nAlbuquerque, farmers, endangered species, and local Native Americans<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/soc_0011.pdf Full paper in link above. Precious Resources: Water and Landsat\u2019s Thermal Band \u201cChronic water supply problems in many areas of the West are among the greatest challenges we face in the coming decades.\u201d Mark Limbaugh, the U.S. Department of the Interior\u2019s (DOI) Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, told U.S. Senators in 2006.1 He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primarywater.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}