Postmodern Hydrologic Cycle

We all know what the hydrologic cycle looks like, right? 

Well, take a look below.

Kate Ely, Umatilla Basin hydrologist extraordinaire for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, sent me a version of the hydrologic cycle she sketched and used in a presentation. 

I call it the 'Postmodern Hydrologic Cycle', or perhaps the 'T. Boone Pickens Hydrologic Cycle'.

Download Postmodern Hydrologic Cycle

Maude Barlow would no doubt vouch for Kate's interpretation.

This'll get framed and put on my wall.

Comments

[Sari Sommarstrom]

And where does she (we) get her (our)water and food? This is a rather cynical perspective, and not at all helpful to improving water management.

[Michael]

There was a bottled-water plant nearby, but the townspeople, annoyed by the fact that it consumptively used 500 acre-feet per year and sold their own water back to them, drove it out of business.

[groundwaterhegemony]

The only thing missing on this diagram is a link to bottled water.