Drought (photos)

The news keeps saying that if consumption doesn't change Raleigh NC will be out of drinking water by Jan, yet they are just now banning all outdoor watering. That is of course if you didn't get a permit to water your new lawn before the ban, the permit is for 45 days of watering. They should have banned car washing and lawn watering months ago. People with wells are not restricted, so they continue to waste water on their non-native grass lawns. I guess they don't understand that once the normal drinking water supply is used up, they will be coming for your well water if you still have it.

It will be easier to move people to areas with water than to move water to people who have run out of water. There's close to 5 million people who rely upon the public water distribution system in the Atlanta metro-area.

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That is true. When all dries up there will be widespread panic. The folks/communities/counties that do still have water will be harassed to give part of their shares to everyone else. I think the lawn watering should have been banned completely months ago!

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Atlanta metro has around 5.4 million folks. Add to that the general population of the southeast and then consider having to relocate a major portion of them into areas that have water. It has the potential of Katrina several times over.

When trucks were diverted to the gulf coast to supply food and water the impact was felt country wide. There weren't enough trucks to transport supplies for the rest of the country.

It's a bad situation and needs a hurricane/tropical storm or 3 to put things right. Little bits and spits of rain will not be enough to change it. Everyone needs to think about this in terms of the worst case scenerio and prepare for it.

I'm on a well and have been very conservative with my water use because I'm not sure how the drought effects the water table. It would make sense to me that if we're not getting rain then the water table will drop. Also, I'm not sure how my neighbors' water useage effects my well water supply... I have not watered grass at all, and used drip hoses on my garden. I am not doing a fall/winter garden. I washed my truck at home once in the past year and am collecting water in buckets to water potted plants. I do know of a family in the next valley over that is on county water but put a well in so that they could water their lawn. Are they drawing from the supply for people whose only source is a well.

They're already trucking water to folks in my county whose wells have dried up.

Ad in yesterday's shopper here: Hay for sale, $70 a roll, $90 delivered.

We did get 1/2 inch yesterday and 1/4 inch this morning. Woo-hoo, we're now just 22 inches behind.

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No need to totally panic. Raleigh has plans to get water if Falls Lake goes dry. At least that's what I read in the local fish wrap. I'd assume cities are looking at drilling wells as well right now. The real solution is pretty simple. Pump the water out the back end of the sewage treatment plant into the front end of the water plant.