A future of thirst: Water crisis lies on the horizon

[Dexman PE PMP]

https://news.yahoo.com/future-thirst-water-crisis-lies-horizon-042831078.html

Water may become the new oil.

You have obviously never lived in Colorado. It's been like this for years...

 

[matt267 PE]

^ just as long as I can keep watering my grass, I'll be happy.

 

[matt267 PE]

https://news.yahoo.com/future-thirst-water-crisis-lies-horizon-042831078.html

Water may become the new oil.

You have obviously never lived in Colorado. It's been like this for years...

Those of us on the east coast have been lucky with plenty of water recently.

 

[FLBuff PE]

^ just as long as I can keep watering my grass, I'll be happy.

Here in the western US, there are water police that will ticket you if you water your yard on the wrong day.

 

[Supe]

When do we all start panicking and drinking our own urine?

 

[envirotex]

There is a reason why T. Boone Pickens (the oil magnate) is acquiring water rights...

 

[NJmike PE]

If it seriously becomes an issue, then there will be more acts like this popping up to preserve drinking water supply.

http://www.highlands.state.nj.us/njhighlands/actmaps/

 

[NJmike PE]

When do we all start panicking and drinking our own urine?

start now

EDIT: It's like eating the yellow snow

 

[matt267 PE]

^ just as long as I can keep watering my grass, I'll be happy.

Here in the western US, there are water police that will ticket you if you water your yard on the wrong day.

luckily it's been many years since we've had to do that. Maybe 20+ years.

 

[matt267 PE]

When do we all start panicking and drinking our own urine?

start now

EDIT: It's like eating the yellow snow

hahaha

This past winter my daughter was under strict orders to not eat yellow or brown snow.

 

[NJmike PE]

^ just as long as I can keep watering my grass, I'll be happy.

Here in the western US, there are water police that will ticket you if you water your yard on the wrong day.

luckily it's been many years since we've had to do that. Maybe 20+ years.

no, we just have odd/even gas days like during Sandy

 

[engineergurl]

^ just as long as I can keep watering my grass, I'll be happy.

Here in the western US, there are water police that will ticket you if you water your yard on the wrong day.

like that in the south east too...

 

[envirotex]

We are on one day a week.

This is the lake near us...

 

[matt267 PE]

We are on one day a week.

This is the lake near us...

wow.

 

[Road Guy]

Georgia (lakes) looked like that for years, then they had a 150 year storm and it was all changed.. Some counties took progressive action and built there own reservoirs for the future and when the drought comes again those will be okay while others that wait around on the federal / state government handouts will be SOL......

note during the 3-4 year drought in Georgia where it was illegal to water for the most part we never watered, even though we had an irrigation system and our grass(bermuda) survived.. I saw lots of dumb people setting their irrigation to run at 2 AM cause they figured no one was watching.. selfish people everywhere...

I figure the planet has been around a long time and the good lord will provide what is needed...

 

[wilheldp_PE]

Sorry. the planet is 2/3 covered by water, albeit salt water, but that's what desalinization is for. We ain't running out anytime soon

I doubt anybody watched it, but I posted a YouTube video about the liquid fluoride thorium reactor (nuclear power). Since it doesn't use steam turbines (they are more efficient with gas turbines), the cooling water can be at normal atmospheric pressure, and the waste heat can be used to desalinate water.

As a side note, that reactor can also produce large quantities of hydrogen as a waste product. Hydrogen can then be used to make "green" fuel cells (i.e., since the hydrogen is just a waste product from the production of electricity, you aren't wasting energy to produce the hydrogen).

 

[Wolverine]

^^^ that would be a lot funnier if you swapped "Unicorns" for "Liquid Fluoride Thorium" and "Rainbows" for "Hydrogen".

Seriously Will, where do you come up with this nonsense about nuclear technology being able to solve multiple problems with efficiency? Everyone knows that our myriad of crises will continue to get worse until the goverment steps in and fixes everything with Green Power. Sweet, magical, beautiful Green Power.

 

[Road Guy]

Obama Power!

 

[ALBin517]

Michigan hit rock bottom a few years ago.

But sitting on about 5000 cubic miles of freshwater is encouraging for the future.

 

[knight1fox3]

Why do you think I want to live near the Great Lakes? Muwah ha ha ha.

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