Jesse Powell

@skykingdom.bsky.social

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Science, climate, oceanography, art, nature, UBI, smaller population, steady state, AI, governance, astronomy & space exploration, housing and transportation policy, urban planning. Not necessarily in that order. Oh yeah, cars are a scourge upon humanity

Graph showing total fresh and salt water withdrawals in billions of gallons per day from 1950 to 2015 in the United States. In general, total withdrawals peaked in 1985 at about 360 billion gallons per day before declining steadily to 280 billion gallons per day in 2015. Freshwater accounted for approximately 95 to 85 percent of total withdrawals over this period.