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"As a hydrologist, I definitely agree that there's always a cycle with the water," Stadnyk said. "But what the science says is that this is one of the regions in the world where we can expect more frequent drought cycles, and longer drought cycles. "That begs the question about economic viability, right? How long can farmers and irrigators hold out without that water and still be productive and still have a viable business?"

This is what it boils down to. I think that unfortunately, we're going to have to either develop more water-effective measures of irrigation (which all cost significantly more than the standard sprayers), or the yields are going to fall significantly. Either of those mean that food prices will continue to climb.

Its not a good situation, and there's not a good solution.

Meanwhile, there's people in that landlocked province who want sovereignty from the rest of Canada. Go try to drink your oil.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The district, responsible for delivering irrigation water to farmers in southern Alberta, launches a PowerPoint presentation to lay out the challenges ahead.

The brown area in the photo is very concerning because it means virtually zero to no snowpack in an expanse that extends across the Prairies, said Tricia Stadnyk, a professor and Canada Research Chair in hydrologic modelling with the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering.

In the room at the St. Mary River Irrigation District AGM, organizers explain that supply in the area is lower compared with last year, with a dry winter affecting snowpack and reservoir storage.

But Westwood said the district is confident that even though southern Alberta is on a path to irrigation expansion, it's being done through infrastructure projects leading to strong water savings.

Stadnyk, the Canada Research Chair in hydrologic modelling with the University of Calgary's Schulich School of Engineering, says it's virtually certain that Alberta will no longer have glacier inflow in the future — the only question is when this will occur, whether that's in 2030 or 2050.

"The last thing we would want as a province as a whole is to spend millions of dollars, if not billions, retrofitting for irrigation expansion, only to find that the water isn't there to fill the canals or the pipes," she said.

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"Once the easy-to-extract oil is consumed, then only costly-to-extract oil exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify."

"Once the easy-to-extract water is consumed, then only costly-to-extract water exists to be consumed, and sooner or later the cost becomes too-much to justify."

It's the same problem.

Oil isn't self-renewing, water used to be, but with ClimatePunctuation, that's changing.

Humankind may have to abandon the praries, later this century, exactly as most of California, most of Texas, most of the Middle East, & most of India are going to be unusable.

Too-many over-40C days per year & NO water for us, both prevent a region from being inhabitable.

The 600+ mass-shootings in the US in 2023 are nothing, compared with the rampaging pogromming that's going to be going-on in the coming years, as The Great Filter continues unfolding..