Anyone have some good reading recs on the water crisis?

Outside of Phoenix, in the scorching Arizona desert, sits a farm that Saudi Arabia's largest dairy uses to make hay for cows back home.

That dairy company, named Almarai, bought the farm last year and has planted thousands of acres of groundwater-guzzling alfalfa to make that hay. Saudi Arabia can't grow its own hay anymore because those crops drained its own ancient aquifer.

Reporter Nathan Halverson tells NPR's Renee Montagne that Almarai bought about 15 square miles in the Arizona desert.

"They got about 15 water wells when they purchased the property. Now, each one of those wells can pump about 1.5 billion gallons of water. It's an incredible amount of water they're going to be drawing up from that aquifer underground," Halverson says.

didnt the gov receive a few hundred million to address such issues in the last few years?

We redefined infrastructure to include stuff such as childcare, which generally does not require environmental review. Shovel ready jobs do not exist and would need substantial state and federal legislation to bring into being. The only cool part of FDR's legacy, building shit at scale, is the thing we cannot re-create.

If only there was a way to subsidize computer engineering education.

Ehhh…lots of stuff happening in systems, storage, precision ag, etc. All drives resource efficiency, all requires code.

Take it to the steel beams thread

I was trying to be polite. Designing and building bridges is trivially easy from a comp sci standpoint. Getting the landed hippie gentry lawsuits resolved so you can actually pour concrete is the hard part.