By: Luke Mehring
In the first chapter of the book Barbara Kingsolver spends a lot of time talking about the water supply in Tuscan. It made me think about that if Tuscan, which is 300 miles away, is getting so much of their water from the Colorado River, what about all the other people who use water from the Colorado and the lake behind the Hover Dam (such as Las Vegas). So I did some research and found this great article, which is linked below. It is from January of this year and talks about how America could be running out of fresh water soon. More specifically, it talks about Lake Mead, which Vegas gets 90% of its water from, has drops more than 130 ft in depth in the past 50 years and come coasts of the lake are 1000 miles from where they use to be. I also states that Americas only hope for the future is new water conserving technology and recycling the fresh water we use. If we cannot do this all the ground water that has build up over thousands of years will virtually disappear and everyone will be forced to move around the great lakes, the largest bodies of freshwater in the world, or to the coast, where salt water can be turned into fresh water.
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