You can get by without food longer than you can without water.

This article was of interest to me because I remembered somewhere in the Bible (probably the books of the Prophets) it says words to the effect that 'a barrel of water will cost more than a barrel of oil.' What happens when the water disappears? Think SINK HOLE. Florida has firsthand knowledge about this phenomena. I am not a geologist, but common sense tells me that may also contribute to an increase of severe earthquakes. I AM NOT PREDICTING, I am surmising the possibility.

The following is just part of the article. If you want to read it, it is here:
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/8657/20140821/disappearing-groundwater-an-unrealized-threat-to-our-future.htm

To counter the ongoing drought in the western United States, we are using aquifers to pump irreplaceable groundwater from the earth and into people's homes. But once this nonrenewable supply is tapped out, the real crisis begins. Disappearing groundwater is the out-of-sight, out-of-mind threat that can potentially change how and where we live and grow food, among other things.

Groundwater comes from aquifers - sponge-like gravel and sand-filled underground reservoirs - that provide populations with freshwater to make up for surface water lost from drought-depleted lakes, rivers and reservoirs. However, what we often don't realize is that as we continue to rely on this hidden resource, we are actually depleting a water supply that's used to meet half of our water needs. The current drought shrinks surface water in lakes, rivers and reservoirs, and so we grow more dependent on groundwater from aquifers. Some shallow aquifers recharge from surface water, while others deep in the ground contain ancient, or "fossil," water locked in the earth - a supply that is not everlasting.

It's no secret that the western United States - as well as other parts of the world - is currently suffering from a three-year-long drought. The Colorado River Basin, for one, is drying up and losing water at dramatic rates. According to a NASA study, the basin has lost nearly 53 million acre feet of freshwater since 2004, taking away far more water than the region can hope to refill - a real concern considering that it supplies water to 40 million people in seven states. Researchers also determined that more than 75 percent of this water loss is being replenished by underground resources.

Also, seriously affected by the loss of ground water are India, Iran, and China. China is moving water from one area to another, which in the long run only exacerbates the problem. The Iranian crisis may be to our advantage - as I understand it, it takes a lot of water to cool reactors, that may slow their development of the bomb.