Where is the water? Well it's down.

[skip1930]

Lake Michigan and in the area of The Bay of Green Bay, [ 300 miles of coastline ] are experiencing a lack of water.
...Looking fwd to 8 to 12 inches less water depth this season in 2012. We have been in the dry cycle for a few years now.

Our July high water time is now, so that pretty much makes Sturgeon Bay, Egg Harbor, Fish Creek, Ephraim, Sister Bay, and points North like Washington Island a dry water front.

In most cases the good skipper might be able to see his dock before running aground. Pack waders for the 1/3 mile muddy excursion ashore. Really in Ephraim!

No rain and in just a few nano-seconds, in mother nature's time, we had five miles thick of ice melted away during the last ice age and that lightened the load over the land and now a mere 5000 years later the land is springing up. Well enough to be measured anyway making it appear that the water is going down.

Might be time to find a land yacht or a much, much longer dock...skip.

Bar Bet: If all the water on the planet was contained in a 55 gallon drum and one five gallon pale of water was removed, that one five gallon pale would represent all the planet's fresh non-salt water. Take one tea spoon out of the pale and that would be all the water that was fit to drink without water treatment. And this water is also the oldest land locked water on the face of the earth located North of the Boundary Waters in Quetico, Canada. Ten Million five hundred thousand hectares of water and islands with no people, no engines, no waterside resorts or camp grounds. About 700 people a year are permitted to enter, and the Royal Canada Mounties make sure that what you packed in, you packed out. No tooth paste container left behind. We did the trip with three canoes and seven people. It was a fantastic 17 days.

Might be time to go into business making R/O reverse osmosis water but that takes a huge amount of electric-pump-pressure to force the water molecules through a membrane small enough to allow water to pass but not a salt molecule to pass through.

[chas5131]

Islands in the South Pacific are flooding.  The world's oceans are rising.  In some places the water has become too deep for the coral to thrive.
Glaciers are melting.  Go to Alaska and see for yourself.

[jamato323]

Me thinks, Skip is bemoaning the shortage of fresh water not water in general. As the peninsula of Florida slowly returns to being a sea bed we are seeing salt water infiltrating our aquifer....de sal plants are definitely part of our future.

[skip1930]

" Glaciers are melting. " Living, growing, thriving, microscopic bacteria are living within the ice and generating their own heat just from being alive. This is melting the glaciers from the inside out. No such thing as global warming.

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