Climate change’s hotter temperatures and society’s diversion of water have been shrinking the world’s lakes by trillions of gallons of water a year since the early 1990s, a new study finds.
#ClimateDiary i am posting this article here now - about #Drought in #Germany, where #Water loss is amongst the world’s largest. But i am finding it all difficult just now. Week on week, day after day hard-hitting #ClimateNews - it’s getting to me and i am not sure how good it is to keep on posting all this. Will try and focus on #ClimateHope for a bit if I can
Next an analog photo from Amsterdam took with my Zorki 4 camera (an old Soviet rangefinder) from 1966. 📷 Let's imagine that this photo doesn't have these few modern cars, then you could say that this photo looks like it was taken a few decades ago. Canals in Amsterdam are the most iconic places of this city, many calls this city the Venice of the north and I can confirm it's true! 🥰
Gear:
• Zorki 4 (KMZ, 1966)
• Jupiter-8 50 mm f/2 (KMZ, 1967)
• Kodak Professional Portra 400/36
West Sussex: More than 20,000 people without water all day.
People have no water supply in Horsham, Billinghurst, Broadbridge Heath, Pulborough, Codmore Hill, West Chiltington, Wisborough Gree, Rudgwick, Loxwood, Barns Green and Slinfold.
Ile-de-France gives 20,000 euros to households willing to collect rainwater
A personal water reservoir can be beneficial both for their wallets and for the environment
Subsidy covers expenses related to the purchase and installation of the rain collector. The subsidy cap has been set at 50% of the cost of installation.
Not a drop left in the tap: The worst-case scenario distressing the French Pyrénées.
In French Catalonia, in the east of the Pyrénées mountain range, there has been no rain for over a year. The water levels in the area's aquifers are so low that there could be shortages of drinking water.
The drought in Spain highlights how global warming is crippling the nuclear industry, which is entirely dependent on abundant quantities of water to function.
Spanish reactors, all on rivers, are competing with a range of other segments of society that rely on the decreasing levels of water.
Additionally, the heated water these plants return to the river exacerbate the problem.
into the deep end
looking up at the soft light
Grasping for a hand!
*I nearly drowned as a child. I was thrown into a lake before I could swim. Sinking, it was quite beautiful after I let go of the panic. Until they brought me up for air!
Came across this spring yesterday with remarkable cooling properties. The Fuente de Corcuela at Moclin. I suspect originally built by it's wonderfully creative Arabic originators. It might have been 30c+ in the sun but on entering this area we were met by lovely cool air, generated partly by the shade but also by the water circulating through and away to lower regions. A wonderful spot and worth a visit if you are visiting the Granada area.