The Age of Thirst in the American West

[NickB79]

5. How long until we have to start depopulating the Southwest?

Even if you can find enough water for basic needs such as drinking and running the plumbing, you need far more than that to run your factories and power plants.

Long before people start running out of drinking water, the Southwest will have lost most of it's industry and the jobs that those industries supported.

I feel guilty when I think about how we here in the Upper Midwest will probably see a beneficial population and economic boom (at least in the short-term) as people and businesses come here to escape the droughts and heat of the US Southwest.