Water

[MarathonMike]

Southern California needs to conserve water ... watering lawns and golf courses is the problem ...

Las Veges is much drier ... however ... all the water is pumped out of Lake Mead ... used by residences, businesses and industry ... treated ... and pumped back into Lake Mead ... the only water lost is lawns and golf courses ...

80% of California's "developed" water is used by farmers {Cite} ... urban desalination won't fix anything ...

The lack of water conservation at all levels here in the Southwest appalls me. We harvest 2500 gallons of rainwater per every inch of rain. Every home owner who has the means should be doing this.

 

[Concerned American]

The lack of water conservation at all levels here in the Southwest appalls me. We harvest 2500 gallons of rainwater per every inch of rain. Every home owner who has the means should be doing this.

Rain barrels?

 

[MarathonMike]

Rain barrels?

Rain tanks, one is 1000 gallons the other is 1500 gallons, tied into the rain gutter system.

 

[Concerned American]

Rain tanks, one is 1000 gallons the other is 1500 gallons, tied into the rain gutter system.

Do you use it for irrigation? I assume it isn't potable.

 

[ReinyDays]

Rain water isn't that dirty ...

 

[Woodznutz]

Doesn't really matter. How much do we need as a species to thrive? Once we're past that, we're doomed.

We won't run out of water anytime soon. However, it may get pretty expensive.

 

[frigidweirdo]

We won't run out of water anytime soon. However, it may get pretty expensive.

Well that's a problem for the poorer people, isn't it?

Based on the way the US has dealt with this in the past, it'll go to the rich first, second, third and fourth...

And countries that run out will go to war to get more.

 

[Etymology gaslight]

Where the sewage is dumped? ...

I dont know.

 

[Woodznutz]

Well that's a problem for the poorer people, isn't it?

Based on the way the US has dealt with this in the past, it'll go to the rich first, second, third and fourth...

That would require some drastic changes in the water delivery infrastructure.

 

[frigidweirdo]

That would require some drastic changes in the water delivery infrastructure.

No, it wouldn't. It'd just require a change in the price of water.

 

[Woodznutz]

No, it wouldn't. It'd just require a change in the price of water.

You have to alter the system so the poor can't steal the water.

 

[frigidweirdo]

You have to alter the system so the poor can't steal the water.

Huh? In La Paz, after the World Bank got Bolivia to privatize the water industry, 1/4 of all people in the city couldn't get clean water any more. But America made loads of money out of it. And the Americans didn't give a flying **** about whether Bolivians were able to get clean water.

 

[Woodznutz]

Maybe if we could convince people that they don't really need to drink 8 glasses of water each day.

 

[ReinyDays]

4 glasses of water, 4 glasses of beer ... depending on how much water you have ...