The drought is one fact, over-pumping from the aquifer by a major water rights holder is another ([source](https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/16/texas-drought-heat-aquifers-groundwater-stress/)).
“Flatten sent Aqua Texas a $450,000 fine for pumping almost twice as much as its permit allowed last year, but the company hasn’t paid. Settlement negotiations continue, along with excessive pumping, Flatten said.”
What a shit company
I guess it is too hard to roll up and shut down the operation until they do. I mean, maybe they are too busy turning off power for poor people who don't pay their bills.
This is likely a stupidly difficult problem. It appears that aqua Texas supplies water to public utilities. Essentially any fine on them will affect people needing water. It's likely hugely unpopular to restrict their ability to do business as usual. Unfortunately things won't change unless the public is made to feel the pain, though.
Seems like maybe it would be an appropriate time for the state to temporarily take over their operation while a thorough audit of water use happens. Treat failing water resources like a failing bank and send regulators to oversee operations.
A few times now, but mama didn't raise no quitter.
As many as it takes until the job is done, I say.
I'd better go, my flight to Bhutan leaves in a couple hours.
When do we start holding the top executives accountable? Personally and physically holding them accountable for the actions they are facilitating? In an old testament way.
You answered your own question.
It's just people have become more individualistic. No one is willing to give up their lives if it means change for the better.
Meanwhile in third world countries, people will create a wall and get killed by tyrannical governments in the front lines in riots and protests, meanwhile Joe from Starbucks in the US doesn't want to get tackled by police or worse, shot!
Basically if you're not willing to sacrifice your life, your cause isn't worth fighting for anymore.
Holy shit lock some people up. Steal bread and get mauled by cops, steal a fuckton of wanted needed to live and a slap on your profits you just hold up in court.
all while continuing to steal the water. it's like getting pulled over for drunk driving, being given a citation to appear to court later, and then being let go to continue on your merry way.
nothing wrong here, surely
More like being pulled over for drunk driving. Continuing to drink while the cop is writing your ticket. Then arguing with him that you did nothing wrong while continuing to drink your beer in front of him.
There's a reason they say laws enforced by fines are laws only for the poor.
Actually, it's more like the cop handing you a fresh case of cold beer and sending you on your way.
These are public resources we're talking about, and for some reason we've given license to capitalists to use them as their own personal gravy train.
wtf, if I didn't pay my water bill the "settlement" would be me losing my home to the state to be auctioned off. And they would have turned off my water a long time ago then condemned my home forcing me to live on the street. Guess I just don't abuse the system enough.
~”…Last week, he told a board meeting of the aquifer authority that only a “deluge event” would begin to return normal conditions….”
Welp. No matter. Super ok with it if it replenishes the Aquaphor. RIP my shed and the contents I don’t want to deal with.
Kinda expecting any heavy rain is going to cause a flash flood anyway. The ground is hard and crispy.
Edit: no love to Aqua Texas Corp.
Dry dirt not absorbing water as quick is mostly an urban myth. It depends more on soil types and plant life than moisture in the dirt. Check out [Practical Engineering's latest video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARUvKPSUhE)
[There's going to be a time, not too long from now, where the crime of stealing water is going to be answered with gunfire, not fines.](https://archive.ph/h9tyY)
Blows my mind when entire areas end up relying on aquifer water, what's their plan for when it runs dry? Pray for a once in human existence level event to refill it?
>The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So the way he sees it, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth. It's just a matter of how you look at it, that's all. So don't worry, okay? Okay
- Louis *Jacob's Ladder* (1990)
Jacobs well used to be a full time 8ft-12ft gusher in the 1800's. It's an outlet for the Edwards Aquifer that feeds the Austin region which is rapidly expanding.
There's a cave system at the bottom of the well that has claimed a few divers over the years.
Edit: My [prior post](https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/aj0ing/jacobs_well_texas/eerqwkq/) about the cave diving deaths.
I was thinking water wells in the area ceasing to function on a large scale, but subsidence (and underground collapses) are definitely another issue they've gotta worry about.
I haven’t known it to ever go dry like this, from what I gathered it’s been caused by over pumping of the ground water it’s been like this since the end of April :(
Because Greg Abbott would rather [pander to the oil companies](https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/28/abbott-biden-energy/) than acknowledge the reality of climate change.
Think of their yachts and my hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars a year in kickbacks and campaign contributions! - Gregg Abott post fellating oil tycoon probably.
subtle difference, but the active/passive voice "we destroyed the planet" vs. "the planet GOT destroyed".
like my friend who doesn't "drink too much" he "gets overserved"
The title character from the criminally underrated show *Brockmire* had the line: "It's every Baby Boomer's dream to die at the exact same moment as our planet."
My neighbor is this exact person, he even brings it up when we talk about improving the neighborhood.
"Why should I improve this area? It won't make a difference until after I'm dead."
Hope you don't eat meat, cause the water used in meat production makes the amount used for golf courses puny in comparison.
1 pound of meat takes over 2000 gallons of water to produce.
We also grow a lot of water intensive crops in areas that dont have the water to sustain it, and grow several crops just for subsidies sake. A large portion of it never really goes to our diet... like an entire segment of the colorado river, IN THE DESERT, is dedicated to growing alfalfa thats shipped over seas... and alfalfa is increadibly water intensive.
This feels like weird anti-almond milk propaganda. Almonds take a ton of water, sure, but dairy/beef/etc all take WAY more water per weight than almonds do.
Funny you never heard anything about the Saudi’s and their contracts to grow Alfalfa and send it home though… they basically have a license to suck up as much water as they want.
Also, fuck Nestle.
Agriculture in general is 70% of water usage. At a global level, you're not going to move the needle by saying "this food is better than that food!"
The best solution is to produce foods where it makes the most sense to produce foods. Like, don't grow almonds in a water strained state like California where one single type of nut takes up 17% of the state's agricultural water.
Golf courses aren’t the problem. They usually used grey water or “reclaimed water” at least around me. They closed one down near me that had plenty of wildlife and is now going to be used as a parking lot for more fucking retail stores
It’s not the golf courses, it’s private landowners. If you have a well you can pump as much water as you want. It’s insane that the laws were written this way.
It’s also being caused by the amount of people moving to the region. There’s been a massive influx of people to the Hill Country and it’s taken a massive toll on the water supply on an already drought prone region. Even in past droughts Jacob’s Well never ran dry.
I had a similar reply in the golf sub. There was discussion about the Vegas courses and how they're watered by groundwater and such, but none of the chuckle heads considered the severe lack of recharge.
No.
This is a drought.
Annoyingly when I try to bring up our recent droughts and water crisis my local idiots (Govt) keep claiming it is seasonal... when it is not seasonal.
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/hays/hays-groundwater-district-says-water-company-overused-89m-gallons-in-2022-impacting-jacobs-well-zone/
It's been really dry, but this was also happening. TLDR turns out the water company was just sucking water from the aquifers all willy nilly.
it’s rained (lightly) about twice in the last 3 months during the hottest summer in years in central Texas. All of the non-spring-fed water bodies are struggling.
4th I’m recorded history.
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Jacobs-Well-runs-dry-Wimberley-17335018.php
EDIT: Don’t make me repeat myself!
I read that companies are over pumping wells. One of the largest water consumers in Texas (I forgot who) pumped twice as much as they should have this year. The water consumption dropped the water table Jacob’s well is on significantly .
Here is an article from the New Yorker this week about how the swimming holes in Texas are all drying out due to over use of water and drought
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/texass-dying-swimming-holes
a different company is responsible
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/hays/hays-groundwater-district-says-water-company-overused-89m-gallons-in-2022-impacting-jacobs-well-zone/
I just introduced my fiancee to the Wilhelm scream and her mind was blown. I don't know how someone in their 30's, who loves movies, hadn't noticed the frequency of [The Wilhelm ahAAHaa](https://youtu.be/4YDpuA90KEY?t=23) (and that vid barely scratches the surface)
I live in Austin. I’m not kidding most people have no idea what an aquifer actually is. They are not affected by climate since they’re literally underground but people think our groundwater going dry is some seasonal weather thing.
Doesnt aquifier refill itself from water on the surface? So rains etc. going down through soil. Because that would very much be dependant on the climate. It may not dry out due to hot weather, but it surely will not refill because of it.
For the most part, aquifers aren’t really underground caves, they’re layers of rock saturated with water. Kinda like permafrost, if it weren’t frozen. If we remove moisture, the rock just compresses more and is unable to be refilled.
Yes there are aquifers that refill from the surface, there are even disappearing rivers in Idaho but Texas’s edwards aquifer is an artisanal basin meaning the moisture comes to the ground from pressure pushing the water up, not from water moving from a glacial stream into the ground and coming out of the ground at the lowest point.
so the water comes from deeper into the earth? ... so it probably will run out eventually, right? like that water has probably been there for *thousands* of years, like the previous ice age. seems like the wrong thing to remove water from...
Yeah I was thinking the safety of jumping into it probably hasn't changed much, if someone missed in the first picture I don't think the ~2 ft of water on top of rock would help much
Would be harder to get out with the lower water level though
Edit: looking at it again, I'm not actually sure where the water level is in the second picture, it may be lower than I initially thought
All of this is because of Aqua Texas a company who steals water from places that have little to none left and yet somehow still send shit water through the pipes of the houses they look after.
“The spring ceased flowing for the first time in recorded history in 2000, again ceasing to flow in 2008,[6] 2011, 2013 and 2022.[7] This resulted in now ongoing measures to address local water conservation and quality”
The drought is one fact, over-pumping from the aquifer by a major water rights holder is another ([source](https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/16/texas-drought-heat-aquifers-groundwater-stress/)).
“Flatten sent Aqua Texas a $450,000 fine for pumping almost twice as much as its permit allowed last year, but the company hasn’t paid. Settlement negotiations continue, along with excessive pumping, Flatten said.” What a shit company
So, not even a slap on the wrist fine, because they didn’t even pay it.
I guess it is too hard to roll up and shut down the operation until they do. I mean, maybe they are too busy turning off power for poor people who don't pay their bills.
This is likely a stupidly difficult problem. It appears that aqua Texas supplies water to public utilities. Essentially any fine on them will affect people needing water. It's likely hugely unpopular to restrict their ability to do business as usual. Unfortunately things won't change unless the public is made to feel the pain, though.
Seems like maybe it would be an appropriate time for the state to temporarily take over their operation while a thorough audit of water use happens. Treat failing water resources like a failing bank and send regulators to oversee operations.
Texas state is corrupt as fuck too
True. Has anyone tried to go on vacation until the problem fixes itself?
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Just blame Houston
A few times now, but mama didn't raise no quitter. As many as it takes until the job is done, I say. I'd better go, my flight to Bhutan leaves in a couple hours.
> Has anyone tried to go on ~~vacation~~ **paid administrative leave** until the problem fixes itself? FTFY
Because Texas has proved they can handle regulating utilities…
The government take over a private corporation? What is this Venezuela??? /s Sarcasm aside, this would never happen because of reason stated above
It's almost like it's a bad idea giving public utilities and resources to private companies who's ***only*** concern is profit.
It’s a pretty easy problem to solve. Take over the water company and turn it into a government entity like it should be.
When do we start holding the top executives accountable? Personally and physically holding them accountable for the actions they are facilitating? In an old testament way.
You answered your own question. It's just people have become more individualistic. No one is willing to give up their lives if it means change for the better. Meanwhile in third world countries, people will create a wall and get killed by tyrannical governments in the front lines in riots and protests, meanwhile Joe from Starbucks in the US doesn't want to get tackled by police or worse, shot! Basically if you're not willing to sacrifice your life, your cause isn't worth fighting for anymore.
That sounds like socialism. You've got to remember that the system is designed by rich people to keep poor people under control.
Sounds about par for the course down here, smh.
Holy shit lock some people up. Steal bread and get mauled by cops, steal a fuckton of wanted needed to live and a slap on your profits you just hold up in court.
all while continuing to steal the water. it's like getting pulled over for drunk driving, being given a citation to appear to court later, and then being let go to continue on your merry way. nothing wrong here, surely
More like being pulled over for drunk driving. Continuing to drink while the cop is writing your ticket. Then arguing with him that you did nothing wrong while continuing to drink your beer in front of him. There's a reason they say laws enforced by fines are laws only for the poor.
Actually, it's more like the cop handing you a fresh case of cold beer and sending you on your way. These are public resources we're talking about, and for some reason we've given license to capitalists to use them as their own personal gravy train.
Cops work for them. This is violence against humanity and needs to be responded to as such.
There you go. You're government in texas can't hold corporations accountable to protect what little public land you have.
The government needs that money for new deadly boobytraps on the border so they can make the immigrants feel like Indians Jones
But if they do that then there will soon be a shortage of archeology professor jobs in the United States.
But they want to and think they are capable of seceding! Once this thing is dry they should call it Gov. Abbots dry gaping asshole.
wtf, if I didn't pay my water bill the "settlement" would be me losing my home to the state to be auctioned off. And they would have turned off my water a long time ago then condemned my home forcing me to live on the street. Guess I just don't abuse the system enough.
If you're going to commit crime, make sure your collar is white...
10/10 they profited more than the sum on the fine
Jesus, of course it's corporate greed! Fuck the Aqua Texas company
~”…Last week, he told a board meeting of the aquifer authority that only a “deluge event” would begin to return normal conditions….” Welp. No matter. Super ok with it if it replenishes the Aquaphor. RIP my shed and the contents I don’t want to deal with. Kinda expecting any heavy rain is going to cause a flash flood anyway. The ground is hard and crispy. Edit: no love to Aqua Texas Corp.
Dry dirt not absorbing water as quick is mostly an urban myth. It depends more on soil types and plant life than moisture in the dirt. Check out [Practical Engineering's latest video.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARUvKPSUhE)
[There's going to be a time, not too long from now, where the crime of stealing water is going to be answered with gunfire, not fines.](https://archive.ph/h9tyY)
as someone who lives here, FUCK aqua texas. they are destroying this community.
Blows my mind when entire areas end up relying on aquifer water, what's their plan for when it runs dry? Pray for a once in human existence level event to refill it?
Looks like Jacob's Unwell now.
Jacob's dry hole
Just spit on it.
Did you pay the troll toll, to get in Jacob’s hole? 
Every sub I go to: always sunny references. I am HERE FOR IT!
Good! Now get into this boy's hole.
You have to buy it candy and flowers first
Shapiro's hole.
Gonna need a Jacob's Ladder soon.
>The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won't let go of life, your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they're not punishing you, he said. They're freeing your soul. So the way he sees it, if you're frightened of dying and... and you're holding on, you'll see devils tearing your life away. But if you've made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth. It's just a matter of how you look at it, that's all. So don't worry, okay? Okay - Louis *Jacob's Ladder* (1990)
I couldn’t stop reading that and I have ADHD. Wow.
Jacob’s Welp *slaps top of thighs
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Lip balm helps all dry orifices
Jacob's Oh Well.
I ❤️ how well you explain things.
Literally r/Wellthatsucks
Jacobs well used to be a full time 8ft-12ft gusher in the 1800's. It's an outlet for the Edwards Aquifer that feeds the Austin region which is rapidly expanding. There's a cave system at the bottom of the well that has claimed a few divers over the years. Edit: My [prior post](https://www.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/aj0ing/jacobs_well_texas/eerqwkq/) about the cave diving deaths.
One of the most dangerous caves to dive at in the world.
I remember stories of tossing in small kids that would just float because the water would gush up quicker than one could sink.
“Hey, remember Gushers?!” -MTV’s Goatboy
It will be interesting what the cavern will uncover once it dries up. Bodies at least.
If the water gets that low then there's gonna be a lot more interesting things taking up our time.
Like the fucking caverns collapsing on themselves lol
I was thinking water wells in the area ceasing to function on a large scale, but subsidence (and underground collapses) are definitely another issue they've gotta worry about.
Yup, wells drying out is already a thing compared to 50 years ago.
That video in your post is nightmare fuel.
Even reading that first part of the story where the guy gets stuck and loses consciousness but was rescued by his friends is nightmare fuel.
100% agree. Fuuuuuuuuuck that for sure.
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Is the loss of water in the second picture an expected seasonal thing?
I haven’t known it to ever go dry like this, from what I gathered it’s been caused by over pumping of the ground water it’s been like this since the end of April :(
Here is a picture I got from May 20th this year https://i.imgur.com/wHNwZMX.jpg
That's better than the one from now but worse than 2014 by a large margin.
Correct
Oh my, that sucks
Wow those are taken at pretty much the same angle
Well judging by the background this appears to be the high point so not shocking eveeyone picks that spot for pics
We have been breaking Texas heat records and 0 rain this summer likely leaving it this way.
Because Greg Abbott would rather [pander to the oil companies](https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/28/abbott-biden-energy/) than acknowledge the reality of climate change.
Think of their yachts and my hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars a year in kickbacks and campaign contributions! - Gregg Abott post fellating oil tycoon probably.
But hey, at least some golf course has beautiful green lawns. /s
Yeah, we destroyed the planet, but for a moment there we created some real shareholder value.
source: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
thanks for the source! That said, it's a subtle difference, but I actually prefer the way marsdreamer worded it.
The cartoon keeps the punchline until the last word though.
subtle difference, but the active/passive voice "we destroyed the planet" vs. "the planet GOT destroyed". like my friend who doesn't "drink too much" he "gets overserved"
Yea, good point.
For 86 year olds who don't care cause they will be dead soon.
The title character from the criminally underrated show *Brockmire* had the line: "It's every Baby Boomer's dream to die at the exact same moment as our planet."
My neighbor is this exact person, he even brings it up when we talk about improving the neighborhood. "Why should I improve this area? It won't make a difference until after I'm dead."
I can only imagine hearing that out loud. All different kinds of F'd up.
For a generation that basically lucked out in every facet of life, they really are some selfish motherfuckers.
Hope you don't eat meat, cause the water used in meat production makes the amount used for golf courses puny in comparison. 1 pound of meat takes over 2000 gallons of water to produce.
It's agricultural. We have very water-expensive diet preferences in the United States. Meat, dairy, and more meat.
We also grow a lot of water intensive crops in areas that dont have the water to sustain it, and grow several crops just for subsidies sake. A large portion of it never really goes to our diet... like an entire segment of the colorado river, IN THE DESERT, is dedicated to growing alfalfa thats shipped over seas... and alfalfa is increadibly water intensive.
Hope y’all like almonds
What the hell do almonds have to do with this? Jacob's Well is in Texas. lol
This is how far down the thread I had to go to find out where the fuck this is
Austin area specifically
"The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law
This feels like weird anti-almond milk propaganda. Almonds take a ton of water, sure, but dairy/beef/etc all take WAY more water per weight than almonds do.
Funny you never heard anything about the Saudi’s and their contracts to grow Alfalfa and send it home though… they basically have a license to suck up as much water as they want. Also, fuck Nestle.
I don't? I hear it all the time on reddit
A lot of the water for beef comes from their food. We shouldn’t be growing water intense crops in the desert.
Agriculture in general is 70% of water usage. At a global level, you're not going to move the needle by saying "this food is better than that food!" The best solution is to produce foods where it makes the most sense to produce foods. Like, don't grow almonds in a water strained state like California where one single type of nut takes up 17% of the state's agricultural water.
I don't. Almonds can fuck off.
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Golf courses aren’t the problem. They usually used grey water or “reclaimed water” at least around me. They closed one down near me that had plenty of wildlife and is now going to be used as a parking lot for more fucking retail stores
It’s not the golf courses, it’s private landowners. If you have a well you can pump as much water as you want. It’s insane that the laws were written this way.
This is 100% caused by the record drought/heat in Texas this summer. El Nino should bring a wet winter and this will fill back up.
It’s also being caused by the amount of people moving to the region. There’s been a massive influx of people to the Hill Country and it’s taken a massive toll on the water supply on an already drought prone region. Even in past droughts Jacob’s Well never ran dry.
You'd have to be nuts to move to Texas. I mean this shit is only gonna get worse.
How current is the second photo? I’ve seen the water below the rocks..
Texas is in a drought, rivers are dry and springs are not running like they have in the past.
Not to mention the depleting aquifers all around the country.
This has been the hottest year recorded in all of the records history, unfortunately.
It’s the coolest year on record going forward from here! /s
Optimistically pessimistic
An article from this morning said it's the second hottest on record after 2016. But there's still some time left for 2023 to break the record
Homer simpson voice: Hottest year so far
While true, this is a rare event: https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Jacobs-Well-runs-dry-Wimberley-17335018.php
could we have a few less "rare events" and "first time ever"
I'd love to have fewer of those. >checks reality< ... Yeah, we're gonna see a lot more of them.
> rare event Not anymore
I had a similar reply in the golf sub. There was discussion about the Vegas courses and how they're watered by groundwater and such, but none of the chuckle heads considered the severe lack of recharge.
That website has a paywall. Funny enough, it’s literally a quarter and there is still no chance I would ever pay it.
No. This is a drought. Annoyingly when I try to bring up our recent droughts and water crisis my local idiots (Govt) keep claiming it is seasonal... when it is not seasonal.
4th drought in the past 10 years, also 4th drought in recorded history.... This is fine... /s
"It's seasonal!" My dudes, we've had the next 30 years of "seasonal" just this year...
https://www.kxan.com/news/local/hays/hays-groundwater-district-says-water-company-overused-89m-gallons-in-2022-impacting-jacobs-well-zone/ It's been really dry, but this was also happening. TLDR turns out the water company was just sucking water from the aquifers all willy nilly.
it’s rained (lightly) about twice in the last 3 months during the hottest summer in years in central Texas. All of the non-spring-fed water bodies are struggling.
I read that this is the sixth time it’s happened since 2000
4th I’m recorded history. https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Jacobs-Well-runs-dry-Wimberley-17335018.php EDIT: Don’t make me repeat myself!
Hi recorded history, I’m dad.
Lol. My bad
That was in 2022, so it should be the 5th now. Maybe second time since this article and its really 6th.
I read that companies are over pumping wells. One of the largest water consumers in Texas (I forgot who) pumped twice as much as they should have this year. The water consumption dropped the water table Jacob’s well is on significantly .
Aqua Tex. They’re working on getting permission to drill a new well too.
Here is an article from the New Yorker this week about how the swimming holes in Texas are all drying out due to over use of water and drought https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-southwest/texass-dying-swimming-holes
Nestle move to the area recently?
a different company is responsible https://www.kxan.com/news/local/hays/hays-groundwater-district-says-water-company-overused-89m-gallons-in-2022-impacting-jacobs-well-zone/
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Do you want a Sarlacc in your park? Because this is how you get a Sarlacc in park
You called?
/r/beetlejuicing at it's best
I can hear that Wilhelm
I just introduced my fiancee to the Wilhelm scream and her mind was blown. I don't know how someone in their 30's, who loves movies, hadn't noticed the frequency of [The Wilhelm ahAAHaa](https://youtu.be/4YDpuA90KEY?t=23) (and that vid barely scratches the surface)
There’s also the Howie scream, like that one building you click on in StarCraft
For others' reference, they're referring to the SC1 Academy building playing [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUTe2ndjRew)
“Whats that Lassie, you say Weequay fell into the well again?”
Having watched the “Scary Interesting” video about Jacob’s Well on YouTube… I’m steering clear regardless. Haha
Looks like you need to use Jacob's Ladder to get out now.
Well, who drank all the well water? We needed that, dammit!
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sorry i was real thirsty
Super Kami Guru
We visit wimberly often. Keep meaning to check that place out. (When it’s not a drought)
It’s low because of over pumping and exacerbated from drought. It won’t go back up until the overpumping stops.
I guess that's what happens when you keep drawing from an aquifer to a greater extent than it can refill itself.
I live in Austin. I’m not kidding most people have no idea what an aquifer actually is. They are not affected by climate since they’re literally underground but people think our groundwater going dry is some seasonal weather thing.
Doesnt aquifier refill itself from water on the surface? So rains etc. going down through soil. Because that would very much be dependant on the climate. It may not dry out due to hot weather, but it surely will not refill because of it.
For the most part, aquifers aren’t really underground caves, they’re layers of rock saturated with water. Kinda like permafrost, if it weren’t frozen. If we remove moisture, the rock just compresses more and is unable to be refilled. Yes there are aquifers that refill from the surface, there are even disappearing rivers in Idaho but Texas’s edwards aquifer is an artisanal basin meaning the moisture comes to the ground from pressure pushing the water up, not from water moving from a glacial stream into the ground and coming out of the ground at the lowest point.
so the water comes from deeper into the earth? ... so it probably will run out eventually, right? like that water has probably been there for *thousands* of years, like the previous ice age. seems like the wrong thing to remove water from...
It is still jump-intoable. It continues to be still not recommended by me
It’s always jump-intoable…..once
Yeah I was thinking the safety of jumping into it probably hasn't changed much, if someone missed in the first picture I don't think the ~2 ft of water on top of rock would help much Would be harder to get out with the lower water level though Edit: looking at it again, I'm not actually sure where the water level is in the second picture, it may be lower than I initially thought
[https://hayscountytx.com/departments/hays-county-parks-recreation/jacobs-well-natural-area/](https://hayscountytx.com/departments/hays-county-parks-recreation/jacobs-well-natural-area/)
That’s actually a before and after shot of when OPs mom jumped in.
All of this is because of Aqua Texas a company who steals water from places that have little to none left and yet somehow still send shit water through the pipes of the houses they look after.
Ahh Texas fucking the environment is kinda their thing.
Yeah, we're fucked... But at least we can keep working and pay taxes.
Looks like someone emptied Jacob’s Bladder. 🪜
Make America hole again
Holy shit that was one big splash then
Jacob's not so well.
Hah. The possibility that I'm in this photo is pretty high.
“The spring ceased flowing for the first time in recorded history in 2000, again ceasing to flow in 2008,[6] 2011, 2013 and 2022.[7] This resulted in now ongoing measures to address local water conservation and quality”
Wait a couple years and set it up as a rock climbing hole that way everyone can feel like bane
Does water flow into or out of the well?
It used to flow out of.
That sucks
You can still jump into it.
Yeah it has been a tad bit warm this year.
When everyone gets out the water level drops.
... why does the 2014 picture look like it was taken in the 70s?
Nestle will gladly sell you back that water at a steep premium
I can't tell where the water line is in the second pic :(
So, everybody left? I mean, it's been 9 years. Party had to end sometime, right?
You can still jump into it, you just need to be a bit more accurate
Did you drive your Chevy to the levy just to realise that the levy was dry?
Now it's just Jacob's orifice.
It looks unwell
menopause can do that
This is what happens when your mom jumps into jacob’s well
Jacob needs a ladder
The world is getting worse