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The Southern #Appalachian Mountains and wider #Piedmont region are an elevated formation that effectively “interrupts” weather formations coming off the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
#JohnWesleyPowell knew.
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The Southern #Appalachian Mountains and wider #Piedmont region are an elevated formation that effectively “interrupts” weather formations coming off the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts.
#JohnWesleyPowell knew.
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@clive @W6KME @h2onolan @ai6yr
“more salient than the remoteness of the postwar West was its dryness. With the exception of a strip along the Pacific, where ocean breezes moderated the regional drought, and the crests of the highest interior ranges, which caught what little moisture escaped the Cascades and Sierra Nevada, the new West was a desert.”American Colossus: Triumph of Capitalism by HW Brand
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@clive @W6KME @h2onolan @ai6yr
“more salient than the remoteness of the postwar West was its dryness. With the exception of a strip along the Pacific, where ocean breezes moderated the regional drought, and the crests of the highest interior ranges, which caught what little moisture escaped the Cascades and Sierra Nevada, the new West was a desert.”American Colossus: Triumph of Capitalism by HW Brand
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@lawyerjsd @ai6yr
Water has been an issue since #JohnWesleyPowell and then made worse by the events outlined in #CadillacDesert.Without investment in #infrastructure, all that precipitation just drains into the ocean.
Also, the municipal budget for road repair increases as the rain washes away the pothole fixes, leaving drivers practicing defensive driving with the road itself.
Mostly, it just reduces the quality of life making people question the value of the #SunshineTax.
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@lawyerjsd @ai6yr
Water has been an issue since #JohnWesleyPowell and then made worse by the events outlined in #CadillacDesert.Without investment in #infrastructure, all that precipitation just drains into the ocean.
Also, the municipal budget for road repair increases as the rain washes away the pothole fixes, leaving drivers practicing defensive driving with the road itself.
Mostly, it just reduces the quality of life making people question the value of the #SunshineTax.
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@CelloMomOnCars
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@GW #JohnWesleyPowell was right. We just didn’t listen.
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@GW #JohnWesleyPowell was right. We just didn’t listen.
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John Wesley Powell was right https://ioc.exchange/@mgsquires/110506456485381514 via @mgsquires
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John Wesley Powell was right https://ioc.exchange/@mgsquires/110506456485381514 via @mgsquires
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“America’s story had always closely aligned with that of Exodus—the tale of a people who left behind an oppressive Old World to enter a wilderness and ultimately build a divinely inspired, promised land.
How would that promise look?
Powell singlehandedly tried to change the American narrative.”
#watermanagement #drainagebasin #americanwest #johnwesleypowell
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“America’s story had always closely aligned with that of Exodus—the tale of a people who left behind an oppressive Old World to enter a wilderness and ultimately build a divinely inspired, promised land.
How would that promise look?
Powell singlehandedly tried to change the American narrative.”
#watermanagement #drainagebasin #americanwest #johnwesleypowell
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“the Colorado River system is in a state of collapse. It is a collapse hastened by climate change but also a crisis of management.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-water-war-is-brewing-over-the-dwindling-colorado-river
#climatechange #WaterWars #WesternUS #JohnWesleyPowell #agriculture #aquifer #drainagebasin #watermanagement #coloradoriver #WaterFootprint
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“the Colorado River system is in a state of collapse. It is a collapse hastened by climate change but also a crisis of management.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/a-water-war-is-brewing-over-the-dwindling-colorado-river
#climatechange #WaterWars #WesternUS #JohnWesleyPowell #agriculture #aquifer #drainagebasin #watermanagement #coloradoriver #WaterFootprint
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John Wesley Powell and His Stunning Map
Decades after John Wesley Powell finished his exploration of the Grand Canyon ( https://c.im/@vickyveritas/109435308102411931 ), he became one of America’s foremost scientists, and the head of the US Geological Survey. As such, he became the voice of the land and was looked to for leadership for the nation’s development.
Senators from the west formed a committee to explore how the federal government could bring water to the western deserts and open the land to new pioneers as part of the US vision of Manifest Destiny. They looked to Powell for answers. Powell did not give them the answer they wanted.
In a thorough study and report complete with maps, Powell’s 1878, “The Arid Regions of the United States” was published. It contains one of the greatest maps ever created: the “Arid Regions of the United States Showing Drainage Districts” that shows the area carved up into watersheds in riotous color instead of political boundaries.
This was the first time a map had been used to visualize the intersection of hydrology with topography and in such an effectual manner that minimized the political. Powell argued that America should move cautiously and conservatively to preserve natural resources and maintain sustainability and stewardship of these arid places.
In this way, the one-armed geologist, John Wesley Powell, in prescient fashion outlined a way forward for a land now locked by climate-change and wracked with drought and water shortages. America should have listened.
See also: https://pubs.usgs.gov/unnumbered/70039240/report.pdf
#JohnWesleyPowell #WatershedMap #TheAridRegionsOfTheUnitedStates #Map #Hydrology #Geology #ScienceMastodon
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John Wesley Powell and His Stunning Map
Decades after John Wesley Powell finished his exploration of the Grand Canyon ( https://c.im/@vickyveritas/109435308102411931 ), he became one of America’s foremost scientists, and the head of the US Geological Survey. As such, he became the voice of the land and was looked to for leadership for the nation’s development.
Senators from the west formed a committee to explore how the federal government could bring water to the western deserts and open the land to new pioneers as part of the US vision of Manifest Destiny. They looked to Powell for answers. Powell did not give them the answer they wanted.
In a thorough study and report complete with maps, Powell’s 1878, “The Arid Regions of the United States” was published. It contains one of the greatest maps ever created: the “Arid Regions of the United States Showing Drainage Districts” that shows the area carved up into watersheds in riotous color instead of political boundaries.
This was the first time a map had been used to visualize the intersection of hydrology with topography and in such an effectual manner that minimized the political. Powell argued that America should move cautiously and conservatively to preserve natural resources and maintain sustainability and stewardship of these arid places.
In this way, the one-armed geologist, John Wesley Powell, in prescient fashion outlined a way forward for a land now locked by climate-change and wracked with drought and water shortages. America should have listened.
See also: https://pubs.usgs.gov/unnumbered/70039240/report.pdf
#JohnWesleyPowell #WatershedMap #TheAridRegionsOfTheUnitedStates #Map #Hydrology #Geology #ScienceMastodon