I'm from the Netherlands. The most common sentiment here is "We expected the weather to get pleasant like in southern europe, how dare there be negative consequences."

Also the Rhine is halfway to no water at all (assuming a summer baseline. It's 80% of the way there by the winter baseline), and thanks to irrigation getting to zero is much easier than you seem to think. Rivers lose water too as it they are tapped by industry and as water diffuses into the soil and from there into aquifers that are also being tapped.

With glacier meltwater running out and droughts worsening, how sure are you it won't run dry at some point in the next 50 years?

In areas subject to the highest alert, water is reserved for priority uses such as healthcare, civil protection, drinking water and sanitation.

Under lower alert levels, restrictions apply to activities such as watering gardens and green spaces, filling swimming pools, washing cars and irrigating crops.

Are the golf courses and private swimming pools still exempt from those restrictions? We would not want to disturb rich people.

As the Post put it, political infighting, accusations of fraud, a physical fight at a governing board meeting and a worsening drinking water supply crisis combined to doom Hartman as a standalone town.

Its water tower spent years needing but never getting substantial repairs as the town was gripped with feuding which the Post compared to the 19th-century rivalry waged in the US’s Appalachia region by the Hatfield and McCoy families. The outlet reported the quarreling in Hartman was so intense that it kept at bay any water operators who could step in to assist.

Thanks. I have not fully read the article, I only skimmed it.

Abandoned by its local government, not its residents. Just to be clear.

"It was named Bubbly Creek because of the methane bubbling up from all the animal carcasses dumped there from the slaughterhouses"

That's obviously in the past, but still
WTF 🤮

Reminds me of stories from Paris from the 17th century, but I bet this one is less than 100 years old.

Interesting to see the city from this perspective. Everybody likes to look at the river but it looks much less romantic if you look up from the river.

According to this video this new paper suggest that these two states seem to exist in liquid water independent of temperature.

Evidence for the generic existence of two local structures in liquid water, June 2026

To be perfectly clear (which the title is not), this refers to supercooled water, that is liquid water below 0 degrees C. Which you don't really find outside of laboratories.

yeah. liquid and water. next.

specially engineered black metal

Solar distillation with a novel approach to dealing with the salt left after the water evaporates. Pretty neat.

Better than my tap water, which smells like eggs and makes my tummy hurt.

Depends on the quality/safety of both bottled and tap water.

Is this a US centric article?

The short answer, is that it's complicated.

The humidity you see on the weather is what's called Relative Humidity, which means that it's already correlated with temperature. As the temperature rises, so does the maximum amount of water the air can hold before it starts precipitating back out. So 20% humidity at 60F will have a smaller volume of water in the air than 20% at 80F.

If you've reached a certain volume of water in the air, and the temperature falls, you can reach the dew point, which is when the air can't hold the same amount of water and deposits it as dew. This is typically when people water, as the air simply cannot absorb moisture until the temperature rises again and the dew starts to evaporate.

Air movement can exchange saturated air with dry air, or vice versa, so it varies as to how much it affects evaporation.

Soil temperature also plays a role, as warm soil will evaporate more than cool soil. This is part of what can make agrivoltaics so dang handy, the solar panel shade will keep soil temps down and increase water retention.

I guess I kind of lumped temperature and direct sunlight together, as here they are basically one and the same. It can be over 100°/37.7° during the day and 60°/15.5° at night.

I live in Northern Europe and I would say it's mostly wind but also humidity. Direct sunlight more so on dark things (like wet earth compared to dry earth) and temperature last.

a biblical rainfall event

I want more play on the town's name. This one's weak.

I already saw

• Corpus Crispy
• Crooked Christi

but that's just name-calling, there must be something better.

Use all that oil money to build a desalinization plant??? They're on the gulf, the water is right there.

If you do have water limits you should either build solar and a desalination plant, although there's a nuclear power plant nearby, or get rid of grass and use xeriscape plants.

giant companies wielding their power over local lawmakers

I wish that tune wasn't so familiar.

In this town, they consume over 60% of water supplies. Water supplies that are then drying up. Residents, though, are under lvl 3 restrictions and face a $500 fine if they break them.

Probably thems immigrants , they should bomb the water!

Everyone who is surprised this happened in Texas raise your hand...

No? Nobody?

For sure! I think the Echologics user manual is a bitch to get a hold of on the Internet which is annoying but it's got great info in it if you feel like nerding out.