The changing shape of Lakes in the West of The United States

We live in a small world but we do compartmentalise our world and tend to only think of what surrounds us. Things change all the time and the familiar things change so slowly that we only recognise the extent of the change when, eschewing out faulty memories, we look at holiday snaps to show the way things were. Our cities change organically; if you were to visit New York after fifty years you would still recognise the place; London over the last few years has gathered some new buildings and some old ones have been repaired and cleaned up while others have ben torm dowm, but it is still recognisable as London. 

Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink

I have written much about fossil fuel created energy, in terms of the climate change problems that it creates. These are now well known and becoming less controversial, scientifically, with virtually every piece of new research published. We see their consequences in the melting ice, rising sea levels and climate warming, but there is another problem of electrical energy generation by burning, which is much less publicised and in fact may well become in the shorter term a greater problem than warming the planet – the impact of generating energy on water supplies.