The World Is Running Out of Fresh Water. What Happens If We Do?

India is the thirstiest user of groundwater in the world, sucking up more of this valuable resource than both the U.S. and China combined. Indeed, the country relies on groundwater (like lakes and rivers) to keep its crops irrigated, its industries running, and its people quenched. In some rural communities, as much as 85 percent of their drinking water is pumped from underground.

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After some lobbying, their lease was extended by one year, but after that, their future is uncertain -- the ONLY conservation/restoration center in the National Park system (and in a space highly specialized for their storage and preservation needs). We were honored to cover their story, and we hope you enjoy this series.

#tested #AdamSavage #NPS #DogeCuts

Facing Defunding, Indigenous Cultural Workers Say They Cannot Be Suppressed

https://murica.website/2025/09/facing-defunding-indigenous-cultural-workers-say-they-cannot-be-suppressed/

"Elon Musk boasted in early February that, “We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.” Musk is gone but the White House budget request for next year pencils in a cut of two-thirds to global health and humanitarian funding. Foreign aid has a mixed reputation, it is true, but that cut would plausibly cause a million deaths in the next 12 months alone." Stats from @TimHarford https://timharford.com/2025/07/the-many-tragedies-of-ending-us-aid/ #usaidcut #dogecuts #musk

#1A # Diplomacy #DOGECuts
#AkbarShahidAhmed #HuffPost

This guest was very informative. I don't see a transcript just yet, but he spoke clearly about the dangers of the cuts and firings in the State Dept.

Scary. Top officials who spent years, decades cultivating relationships across the world and circumstances---just gone. Preople elevated to these same jobs who have NO experience in diplomacy.

My grandfather was int he diplomatic corps in the 1920's so I have always b=had an interest in the department.

I don't think the MAGA admin fully understands what they've done, or what it means for the US

https://the1a.org/guests/akbar-ahmed-shahid/

#IHIPNews: Trump HIDING OUT on #Golf Course After FUNDING CUTS Lead to DEATH in #TexasFloods - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I92X9P3mo7U.

#DOGEcuts #Cruelty #farright #extrêmedroite #MAGA #FascistUSA #OrangeFascist #NOAA #weather
#TX. #Texas #USNaziParty #WhiteSupremacism

9.09 min mark: Repulsive monster fresh out of her cave, #AnneCoulter in a tweet said' We didn't kill enough Indians'

The mask is off! People in the States! You have to STOP this!!!

Loonie #LauraLoomer said she will not buy any product in which there are no 'white' people in the adverts, claiming she is '...tired of ...#DEI...'

#FCKNZS #FightBack

The #NWS weather radar at KDIX keeps going offline/returning a blank. We have the remnants of a hurricane headed this way over the next 48 hours.

#dogecuts #weather #noaa #climate #project2025

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science
-news/tired-tornado-alley-rcna208527
Tired in Tornado Alley - NBC reports the lack of
staff in key tornado and flood monitoring and
prevention positions, due to the Trump
administration cuts in budget #meteorology
#tornadoesfloodswildfires #tornadoes #floods #mississippi #tornadoalley #naturaldisasters #usa #uspolitics #trumpadministration #DonaldTrump #budget #TrumpCuts #dogecuts #News #usnews #nbcnews #weather #nationalweatherserviceunderfunded #nationalweatherservice

Stormy weather heading toward NH / Maine. The meteorologist said to be extra careful because the #NOAA warnings were down? WTF!

#DOGECuts #TrumpSucks #ExtremeWeather #KeepingUsInTheDark #MAGADeathCult #TrumpIsTryingToKillUsAll

“But for me, the thing that I’ll remember the most is Musk’s cruel disdain for the federal worker. Countless lives have been unraveled because of this man; their mental health in tatters as they still struggle to find employment after being callously fired by DOGE’s rabid desires to gut the federal government. ... May Musk’s legacy always be centered in the trauma that he and others so gleefully imparted.” 😔🤬

#Politics #USPolitics #DOGEcuts #DOGEKills

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/elon-musk-made-your-life-worse/

Anyone who voted for felon Trump and is not getting federal aid after a disaster. Remember he did it to you.

If you continue to vote for #Republicans, you will continue to suffer.

#fema #felontrump #dogecuts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/26/trump-doge-la-wildfire-recovery

No Veteran Left Behind Memorial Day Protest #veterans #stopDOGEcuts #handsoff #handsoffvets #veteransaffairs #VA #Cobb #Cherokee #Bartow #Floyd #Fulton #Georgia #GA #MemorialDay #protest #protests #indivisible #Acworth #Marietta #CobbVA #WeLoveVeterans #DOGEcuts #activists #activism #healthcare

#EU will provide emergency funds to help keep #RadioFreeEurope afloat after US cuts

May 20, 2025

"The European Union agreed Tuesday to provide emergency funds to help keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet, accusing it of promoting a news agenda with a liberal bias.

"Radio Free Europe / #RadioLiberty started broadcasting during the #ColdWar. Its programs are aired in 27 languages in 23 countries across Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East. Its lawyers have been fighting the administration in court.

"EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said the bloc’s foreign ministers had agreed to a 5.5-million-euro ($6.2 million) contract to 'support the vital work of Radio Free Europe.' The 'short-term emergency funding' is a 'safety net' for #IndependentJournalism, she said.

"Kallas said the EU would not be able to fill the organization’s funding gap around the world, but that it can help the broadcaster to 'work and function in those countries that are in our neighborhood and that are very much dependent on news coming from outside.' "

https://apnews.com/article/europe-radio-free-trump-funds-9e6283df860222e825c81ff0c1c0ef9b

#DOGECuts #BadDOGE #USPol #WorldPol #ResistAuthoritarianism #ResistFascism #Journalism #SilencingJournalism

Bill Gates says Apartheid Elon is killing poor kids by slashing USAID under his bogus “DOGE” reforms—halting HIV meds, wasting food, and collapsing global aid. Gates pledges $200B to clean up Musk’s carnage. Musk sneers: “huge liar.” #ElonKillsAid #DOGEcuts #USAID www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk o...

The Houston Food Bank helps feed approximately 1 million people annually across 17 counties in Southeast Texas. But now, due to federal funding cuts at multiple agencies, the nonprofit likely will have to cut back on how many people it serves.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2025/04/15/518881/houston-food-bank-loses-millions-due-to-federal-funding-cuts/

#Houston #Local #News #Politics #DOGECuts #ElonMuskSDOGE #FederalFundingCuts #HoustonFoodBank #PresidentDonaldTrump #USDAFundingCuts

Taas lentoturma Yhdysvalloissa!! 😳😳🙈🙈😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

Summittaiset irtisanomiset aiheuttavat järjetöntä tuhoa ja inhimillistä kärsimystä!

#FAA
#TrumpCrash
#dogecuts
#DOGEKills
#dogeisnotafederalagency

Couldn't. Run. A. Bath.

#USPolitics
#DogeCuts

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/04/rfk-jr-doge-cuts

Most of us have no idea what goes on at NIST (nat’l institute of standards and technology) but most of us can’t explain how our cell phones work either.

Does that mean NIST’s work isn’t crucial in today’s world?
Far from it.

But the doge boys are at it again—snip here, snip there, and pretty soon they’ll have taken out another block in the jenga tower.

https://www.wired.com/story/nist-doge-layoffs-atomic-spectroscopy/

#DOGEcuts #nist