Anxiety surrising.

Actually, I'm having a bad day.

So it was hard to sing that little song because my anxieties are pretty high.

But, you know, there's our two, and that's what's always reassuring.

As bad as things are in our minds, they're also very worried.

One of the things they're worried about is water.

Now, this is a little ironic considering the absolute horrific, horrifying news out of Texas about the floods which is a matter of

of course way too much water but I'm not going to talk about that I'm going to talk

about lack of water because that is an issue for the industry it's a huge huge

issue for the industry and I don't think they know what they're going to do about it.

All right, this is from the center of my plate column by Lisa Keefe on Meetingplace.com.

Water, water, nowhere.

That's the title of her piece.

It starts off with a quote from this guy, Rick Kellison.

When you look at the projections of surface and groundwater in,

he's talking about Texas, and projected demand for that water, those two lines intersect pretty

quickly. Adam agriculture uses unbelievable amounts of water. And a lot of the water we get is from

underground reservoirs. They're not going to last forever. Like,

we're going to run out of water. It says here, in livestock heavy regions of the northern Great

Plains are seeing dry to severe drought conditions and closer to the border with Mexico, the southern

plains range between extreme and exceptional drought. And the most vital aquifers in the country are seeing the water line drop at a rate of 2 to 7 feet annually,

among the states that she's talking about, California, which actually has had some improvement, though not nearly enough.

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