"Will we run out of fresh water in the 21st century?"

[SwimExpert]

This is the problem with trying to debate the people on this board. They immediatly try to change the parameters of the debate

 

[Samson]

Somehow I don't see nearly total dependence on drinking water for profit being part of a strong economic model.

There is precisely one cause. Too many people. And the one solution is to reduce the population. But that's not likely to happen.

Reducing the population is "not likely to happen?"

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What the Wolly Mammoths said.

 

[SwimExpert]

Somehow I don't see nearly total dependence on drinking water for profit being part of a strong economic model.

There is precisely one cause. Too many people. And the one solution is to reduce the population. But that's not likely to happen.

Reducing the population is "not likely to happen?"

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What the Wolly Mammoths said.

I am talking about executing solutions. You are talking about suffering consequences. There is a difference. Do you understand that difference?

 

[HenryBHough]

Is Obamacare the cull for which you're crying out?

 

[FA_Q2]

No, it really is not. The real question is what will the source of the future will be. There is almost the same amount of water on the planet today as there was 1000 years ago. The only difference is in the form that it takes.

Nobody said the amout of water changed... hence the word potable (meaning from a well, AKA safe to drink)


Here kid, try drinking this water directly out of this polluted well.

Delicious isn't it?




Drinking water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the problem with trying to debate the people on this board. They immediatly try to change the parameters of the debate. When the subject is potable water, they immediatly point out that the same amount of water exists now as ever has, without referancing how safe it is to drink.

What we are increasingly seeing is that water that used to come as a series of rain storms, now comes in very large downpours that create floods. Floods where the water is not even safe to wade in, let alone drink. And in between, we have drought.

However, it is not just drinking water that is in short supply. Water for crops is also at risk. In the past 5 years we have seen drought and floods, following each other heel and toe in much of the US, and other nations in the northern hemisphere. Both situations are detrimental to agriculture, and with 7 billion people on this planet, that is serious. We either start making plans and preperations for these events, or find ourselves up the proverbial creek.

Except I have done no such thing.

That is the problem with debating people on this board. They are so damn busy patting themselves on the back and believing that they are so much smarter than everyone else that they can’t even read the points that you actually make much less address them.

 

[Moonglow]

Golf courses are the largest users of fresh water..

 

[Moonglow]

Nobody said the amout of water changed... hence the word potable (meaning from a well, AKA safe to drink)


Here kid, try drinking this water directly out of this polluted well.

Delicious isn't it?




Drinking water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the problem with trying to debate the people on this board. They immediatly try to change the parameters of the debate. When the subject is potable water, they immediatly point out that the same amount of water exists now as ever has, without referancing how safe it is to drink.

What we are increasingly seeing is that water that used to come as a series of rain storms, now comes in very large downpours that create floods. Floods where the water is not even safe to wade in, let alone drink. And in between, we have drought.

However, it is not just drinking water that is in short supply. Water for crops is also at risk. In the past 5 years we have seen drought and floods, following each other heel and toe in much of the US, and other nations in the northern hemisphere. Both situations are detrimental to agriculture, and with 7 billion people on this planet, that is serious. We either start making plans and preperations for these events, or find ourselves up the proverbial creek.

Except I have done no such thing.

That is the problem with debating people on this board. They are so damn busy patting themselves on the back and believing that they are so much smarter than everyone else that they can’t even read the points that you actually make much less address them.

Huh?

 

[HenryBHough]

Don't mess with golf courses! They are the shrines of the Marxist Excecutive Class!

 

[FA_Q2]

Huh?

Hmmm…

It seems the original quote was to many nests in – those statements were made in response to to my post.

 

[jon_berzerk]

Golf courses are the largest users of fresh water..

maybe but i met a guy who needs some work done this summer

on a pool house for his ranch home on the river

says his water bill for sprinkling his "yard" is over 1500 bucks a month

--LOL

 

[bayoubill]

Will we run out of fresh water in the 21st century? | The Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science - Columbia University

Fresh water supplies are going to run out, so what can we do to make the taps keep running? - Nature - Environment - The Independent

America Is Still Running Out of Fresh Water - NationalJournal.com

"In the United States, the demand for fresh water will exceed the supply by 40 percent by the year 2030, according to a State Department report last year. Water scarcity results from short- and long-term droughts and human activity.

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, at least 36 states are faced with local or regional water shortages."


Before we run out of oil or natural gas, we'll run out of fresh water. Can start dealing with it now and avoid such a calamity, or pretend other things are more important. But as events in West Virginia show, just because you have fresh water today doesn't mean you will tomorrow.

part of the problem is that Americans have grown accustomed to having potable water being delivered to their taps practically free of charge...

while in the rest of the world, millions of people die each year due to lack of easily obtainable and/or sanitary water sources...

 

[bayoubill]

So where is all the water going?

We have oceans of water that can easily be turned into potable drinking water.

Don't worry we won't die of thirst any time soon

potable water can be manufactured outta seawater and/or wastewater...

but it's a relatively costly process, compared to simply pumping water out of a reservoir...

 

[Politico]

So where is all the water going?

We have oceans of water that can easily be turned into potable drinking water.

Don't worry we won't die of thirst any time soon

potable water can be manufactured outta seawater and/or wastewater...

but it's a relatively costly process, compared to simply pumping water out of a reservoir...

That is true. But the water is not going anywhere. So we will have plenty of time to perfect the process.

 

[jillian]

So where is all the water going?

We have oceans of water that can easily be turned into potable drinking water.

Don't worry we won't die of thirst any time soon

potable water can be manufactured outta seawater and/or wastewater...

but it's a relatively costly process, compared to simply pumping water out of a reservoir...

That is true. But the water is not going anywhere. So we will have plenty of time to perfect the process.

we are polluting our water to an extent that desalinization will not make it drinkable.

conservation is a better idea than "creating" water…

 

[Politico]

I didn't say we weren't. I said we will long be dead before it happens.

 

[bayoubill]

potable water can be manufactured outta seawater and/or wastewater...

but it's a relatively costly process, compared to simply pumping water out of a reservoir...

That is true. But the water is not going anywhere. So we will have plenty of time to perfect the process.

we are polluting our water to an extent that desalinization will not make it drinkable.

not true... it is possible to create potable water outta practically any water, regardless of its condition...

and, yes, the process can be costly...

but the costs have been going down as technology has risen to meet the need...