If the US Southwest really is entering a decades-long megadrought, then what?

[NickB79]

Options? Opinions?

[Kali]

1. entering?

we have already been in drouth for two decades

[Cleita]

2. Seems like not a good thing to happen in an area that is desert and

semi-desert to begin with. It might change much about how we live in the next fifty to a hundred years. Maybe some of the large population centers will die out because there won't be enough water to sustain them.

[Vashta Nerada]

3. I would move.

[truedelphi]

4. Northern California is now part of this mega drought.

And this area is supposed to be a rain forest!

My suggestion: immediately stop the black op weather programs, you know, the ones that aren't operating yet (Supposedly.)

[WhiteTara]

5. The Anasazi come to mind.

Migration.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

6. we are screwn and the Pacific Northwest will get less rain and more crops

which will further screw up our ecology. But prepare for Oregon and Washington percent change in population to outpace national average in a big way in coming years.

[B Calm]

7. We need a huge solar powered desalination project to turn sea water into fresh

water.