glumbert

so fucking what asshole

Sure, climate change is not going to affect availability of water at all. Oh, I forgot, in your fairy land there is no influence on the climate by anything humans do.

Its not water you use personaly, its the water needed to make the stuff you buy and the food you eat thats the biggest part of it.

Western agriculture is very water intensive for instance, then again we need the water to keep up the high prouctivity so....

Flax

Good call flax, it's called "virtual water usage" which amounts to 1000 cubic meters per yer per person, about two fifths the amount of an Olympic sized swimming pool. Example...one pair of jeans needs as much water as a tanker truck holds to produce them (11 cubic meters), one kilogram of wheat takes about 1000 liters of water to grow to maturity and 10,000 gallons a year to put out field fires caused from wayward fireworks by mitercut alone!

Miter, I thought you got into the laser scene to get away from the fireworks??

WHAT! Me get away from fireworks? No way Jose, my laser's (literally) burn baby!

I've got great news for everyone who's worried about this. Pay close attention, because you may not have noticed before, but water LITERALLY falls out of the sky. Yes -- that's right -- it actually FALLS OUT OF THE SKY! Rejoice in nature's bounty.

The statement that water is wasted is the deranged ranting of an under-educated college graduate and proof that it's as difficult to get an arts degree from a major university as it is to get a calendar from an insurance salesman.

Water: it falls out of the sky. We pump it around and put it back in the rivers, lakes and streams THAT IT WAS GOING TO GO INTO ANYWAY. The fact that the third world can't figure out how to overthrow their tinpot dictators to install a government that provides basic services like SOME KIND OF DETOUR BETWEEN THE TOILET AND THE SWIMMING HOLE should have been the focus of this program, not some hand-wringer's idea that she's using too much water.

Where do all these morons come from all of a sudden?

Every time an environmental topic is addressed you can be sure that some idiots pop up to utter bullshit. The USA do not have a water problem? What else did you miss? Prohibition is over, World War II also, let us know what else you need to know, we will help.

JF - Ever here of the glacial aquifers. Yes the water was from precipitation, but over 100,000 years. We and other nations are pumping it out much faster than it is being replaced.

http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Oc-Po/Ogallala-Aquifer.html

And that mentality makes you part of the problem in other areas. I can't wait until Canuck gets hold of you. Perhaps you are unaware we have water problems here??? You MUST be one of them bushies....

amen

Last time he checked the tap there was water available, so there could be no problem.

Wasting huh, just like they wasted all that money, lives, time, etc., on exploring the "New World"! How bout all those residents find their own clean water! Just where did you learn that things should be "provided" anyway? How bout survival of the fittest like it's been done for 99.99999 percent of humanities time thus far (aka evolution), how bout people work to provide for themselves, without the expectation of perceived entitlement to food, air, water, money, cars, homes, mates, self preservation and life itself! How bout humanity quit breeding itself to extinction! How bout we invest a teeny tiny fraction of earths resources to grow and reach out to yet another and literal "New World"!

Is THAT too crazy an idea?

Good points Miter. Those who question the validity of basic research (such as done now on Mars by Phoenix which by the way did cost about 250M$) are usually too dumb to understand the results, they are just happy that something new comes around once in a while.

Tell that to the Colorado River.

Also the whole southwest.

The affects of poor water management percolate throughout the region. Oh, crud%u2026 hold on%u2026 I forgot, we%u2019re supposed to take a huge dump on the earth wherever possible. I guess the cascading negative effects of our communal actions can take a backseat to our own idiotic whims. Good thing that%u2019s all squared away.

Lastly, I'm glad you learned something in high school science class. Well, actually, 12 year olds have a better grasp on the water cycle. So I take that back.

You need them, lots of bullshit to flush...