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Visualizing The American Water Crisis
Water is the lifeblood of humanity; it turns out it is in short supply. Like any other commodity high in demand, you should keep an eye on it for investment purposes as we get closer and closer to “peak water.” Right now, the average American consumes about 100 gallons of water per day both directly and indirectly. This is a problem of conservation and efficiency as much as it is supply, as the aging water infrastructure had its last upgrade during the Reagan era.
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no we have plenty...the ice caps are melting
People treat water like they think it falls out of the sky.
Oh wait....
Not too bad here around Lake Ontario - and nice snow melt this week so far . . .
A couple of points...
Water is a 100% renewable resource, so the hysteria in this article is a bit far-fetched. Here in the Great Lakes region, water is obviously plentiful. If one chooses to live in a desert or arid state, they should expect to have water shortages.
Secondly, they say it would take $1,000,000,000,000 to "upgrade" the existing infrastructure. That, too, seems a bit far-fetched. But, the irony is that the sheeple swallow so easily the lies of weapons of mass destruction and accept useless trillion-dollar wars without end for Israel as a result... but would scream bloody murder if such a sum were suggested to be spent on a domestic project that would actually benefit them. Surreal.
If we study water's origins, we will likely find much more active sources to tap:
http://www.primarywaterinstitute.org/evidence.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/earth/huge-underground-reservoir-holds-three-times-much-water-earths-oceans/
The good news? The places that have natural water surface supplies ONLY have to worry about fixing their decaying infrastructure. it will cost a lot and is worth doing BUT if I may make a cost savings proposal - first HANG all the local politicians of both parties from light poles. WHY? Because in the corruptocracy we NOW live in, this life and economy growing boon will just become another way to STEAL money.
The bad news? The places pumping water out of aquifers in what a normally deserts are completely, utterly and irretrievably FUCKED.
That's TOO optimistic ... they are PROPER FUCKED.
First of all, aquifers are underground water supplies that can be DRAINED far faster than they REFILL- in California,the government's solution the 500 feet deep aquifer wells going dry? Let the farmers drill 1,000 feet deep NEW aquifer wells.
BRILLIANT!
One other little problem for California? Water supply networks are NOT earthquake proof!
All those pretty buildings that WON'T fall down in an earthquake? They are going to be completelty fucking USELESS without a water supply.
Let's see what did I miss?
Oh, yeah - water trapped in rock 400 MILES DOWN - it would be cheaper and quicker to build a new space industry importing ice from comets - somebody nudge Elon Musk on that one.
The last bit of good news? if we seal the border with California, the millions of people who will die after the Big One will help raise the national IQ by an easy 10 points.
Read about primary water and how that water comes to surface.
The water in the Great Lakes would cover the North American continent in 5 feet of water.
The problem isn't infrastructure or water, it's the trillions wasted on wars and making the puppet masters as rich as gods.
Wind busted ice on Lake M.
http://blogs.woodtv.com/files/2015/03/Ice-Boulders-5-N-Leland-3-9-15-Lau...
http://blogs.woodtv.com/files/2015/03/Ice-N-Leland-Greg-Gogolin-3-9-15.jpg
http://blogs.woodtv.com/files/2015/03/Ice-5-N.-Leland-3-9-15-Greg-Gogoli...
Cool pics.
Most problems can be solved with analysis and time.
The goal is to keep people afraid, compliant, and dependent.
"...The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ..."
H.L.Mencken
Secondly, they say it would take $1,000,000,000,000 to "upgrade" the existing infrastructure. That, too, seems a bit far-fetched.
Actually if they say it'll take 1Tril, then it will end up at 4Tril after budget overruns, Union overtime, and political corruption.
Oh, ENOUGH ALREADY!!! THE INSANITY MUST STOP!!! BAN ALL DIHYDROGENMONOXIDE!!!!
/sarc
Seriously, who makes up this infoporn crap? Probably the same ecoMarxists who would criminally charge an Oregon land owner for a rain catchment system.
Is clean water an issue? Yes.
Does our water infrastructure suck? Mostly, but it depends on where you look. Some places are in a lot better shape than others.
Are earthquakes a big threat to California's water infrastructure? Well yes, as are war, civil unrest, EMPs and drought.
Is water consumption an issue in California? Not as much as it use to be. Of the 350 gals. of daily use quoted in the infographic, that number isn't accurate any more, at least not here in Southern California. The only places I've seen with green watered lawns around here are over in the Palm Springs area where they have money and water to burn. The rest of us have gotten on with giving up the British Lords and Ladies wet dream, (hehe, I made a funny), of a luxurious acre of mown lawn out front of our tract houses.
But enough of this demonizing infocrap. The world has been fucked since Adam & eve got the Heavenly boot. Fresh, clean drinking water has always been an issue for most of the world. That isn't going to change anytime soon. Deal with it. When the pipes break we get them fixed. When the waterways get polluted we clean them up. When we run low on water we employ conservation. So what's the point of the infographic? Wah, wah, wah! Cry me a fuckin' river.
Thank you for proving the value of sealing the border in case of the Big One.
Only Californians BELIEVE they have a God given RIGHT to everybody else's MONEY to rebuild THEIR oasis in the desert after the Big One hits.
Reality is a bitch, ENTROPY is a REAL MOTHERFUCKER & STUPIDITY is meant to be FATAL.
Two things,
First, great post.
Second, up arrow for the. " .. they are PROPER FUCKED" quote from movie 'Snatch" and like Tyler Durden Was also played by Brad Pitt.
Each person uses 99 gallons... INDIRECTLY. I was wondering how I could call BS on that, and right below -- a 100 watt light bulb uses 5 gal per hour. Got it -- thanks!
So the whole thing is a fraud. No worries unless you obviously live in a desert, in which case you deserve what comes.
"The Good News?"
California is next to the Pacific Ocean, which has lots of water.
Instead of building a high speed train that, practically, no one will ride, specially with driverless cars "around the corner", build de-salination plants.
That would be a good use of solar power and windmills, but a "nice nuke" would do the job better.
If desalinization were easy ... the Saudis wouldn't have deserts any more.
Four decades ago I worked on Saudi projects building "military facilities" in the Kingdom. It was hard to get exact numbers ... but somewhere back then, they passed the armored revetment total for Peak NATO.
When our PM asked, "Why so MANY?"
His Saudi counterpart answered with his own question, "Are they ever going to cost LESS to build?"
The Saudis think LONG term and energy COSTS mean NOTHING to them.
People don't think about it but there is a relative shit ton of salt in seawater - where are you going to put all that sea salt?
Once again Israel shows the world how it can be done. They now gerenerate 2/3rds of their drinking water from deslination, including water for the entire city of Tel Aviv. They also recylce 80% of their treated water for crops.
But how many clueless haters are there on these very boards?
1 upvote for the information and 1 downvote for the tribe butthurt.
A little addendum to your Israeli laud...
"They now gerenerate 2/3rds of their drinking water from desalination, including water for the entire city of Tel Aviv - using billions of free dollars extorted from Western nations."
There... that's better.
Try to find a pump that can lift water a 1000 feet....
I am sitting not too many miles from a pumping complex that could pump the Ohio River at flood stage backwards.
People around here are clueless it even exists.
1000 feet of head isn't all that difficult - it's not cheap, but it's not difficult
Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink. 400 miles is awfully deep. I wonder just how much energy and water it would take to drill that far down.
Anyway, for the water falls from the skies crowd, the graphic included info about pollution. Just because it is wet doesn't mean you can drink it. Fukawhat?
Cue Sam Kennison on living in deserts.
There used to be enough water when we didn't have 7 billion people + billions of live stock drinking at the tap....
I don't understand how we could have a water shortage long-term. Short-term, sure. But we don't "consume" water. We drink it, piss and sweat it out, then it returns to the earth. None of it is ever irretrievably lost. It doesn't escape out to space or get irreversibly bound with other elements. Is this another fake scare story?
Most water supplies are controlled by the government. Remember, if the government controlled sand in the Sahara desert it would soon become scarce.
This is the smartest thing i have heard in a long long time .
Until we're all wearing still-suits ala DUNE, we will always be dependent on the availability of potable water. Too bad so many in the world choose to live where the supply is dwindling.
Saw a 2008 documentary last night "Flow: For the love of water".
It turns out that the world's supply of drinkable water is dwindling, while the ownership of public water supplies are shifting into private hands -- of a small group of umbrella corporations that control it all via a series of subsidiaries.
Check it out.
One familiar name amongst that group of high rollers.......good ol' T. Boone Pickens. Look up his efforts at buying up majority rights to the biggest acquifers in the USA. As previous posters have noted, the issue is NOT a physical shortage of water, but rather the ACCESS to water that is slowly becoming a problem for the average joe. Like everything else on the planet, the hellspawn vampiric fuckwads at the NW0 are moving to establish control over all resources. Their job is pretty much done, as most of us are chained to the water/power grid already....even out in the suburbs.
You may laugh, but don't be surprised if at some point in the not too distant future, these same asshats move to establish control over the very air we breathe. Cuz shortages, global warming, and stuff. Oh yeah, and terrorists.
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We have one gallon toilets as mandated by the State of California. A trip to Del Taco can result in two or three flushes, per shit, just to get it all down.
With that, being a desert kid, I'm naturally conservative with water. Anything that grows in my yard manages to do so without a drop of water from me (other than a midnight piss...pee makes the desert green!). Neighbor planted grass and it's beginning to encroach into my yard, once it's annoying enough I'll dig it up.
We had a pool, um, fire-fighting reservoir but I got rid of it once it filled with polliwogs (where the hell did they come from out here?).
NoVa does not have Del Taco here, but I grew up in Orange County (HB) and clearly understand the natural environment in So Cal. It is plain and simple DESERT.
I spent lots of time in Havasu and Joshua Tree as well as HB, Leucadia, La Jolla, San Clemente, etc... it is all desert. If the weather patterns revert to the geologic mean (it will), those people are in a big hurt. There is not enuf water to support that society - basically Calabasas to San Diego and East to Phoenix - they are all at risk.
Nova
Toads
Im not sure you can call them polliwogs anymore.
I'm purty sure polliwog is raysis...
I bet they are black polliwogs.
Polliwogs= ok
Golliwogs= ok unless yer a UK negro
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...and Nestle's.
Old toilets might use 7 gallons of water per flush but at least they do their job. I've not seen a new one that can flush on 1 gallon although they probably exist. Problem is it takes at least two flushes of a low flow to do the same job as the older one.
Out in CA where it's undoubtedly the capital of low flow there was a big problem because low flow wasn't pushing enough water through the system to actually move the shit...the sewers were full and it stunk. They had to flush the sewers with a lot of water just to move it through. I wonder if they calculated how much additional water it took to actually flush the shit away.
I'd rather have an old toilet that actually did something versus a new one that just swirls it around and then stops.
When taking a shower, put a 3-gallon pail between your legs. It will usually fill up if your shower is five minutes or longer. That's enough grey water for two flushes and will save you about 2-4 cents on the water/sewer bill.
How do I know our country is fucked? People still laugh when I tell them they should invest in water rights.
They all invest in water rights. By buying bottles of plastic tasting water.
Great way to get cancer
Research 'endocrine disruptors'...
These evil fVckers are purposly diverting the jetstream.
I hope they watch their kids die in a fire.
They should give the operation a really kool name such as Project Indigo Skyfold.
"They" also control Reynolds Aluminum and once they control your tinfoil they control your reality. Long regular hat materials.
Yeah kill the kids and let the evil doers live. If they are evil then do you think they will really be all that broken up about fried prawns?
Very poor timing for this contrived scarcity. With the current snowmelt much of the corn belt is swamped. So now excuse me while I go piss the creek.
That's how a Croc does it; in the water.
Maybe when the next crisis is rolled out, we should just ignore it.
Miffed
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Canada are water rich. It's only a matter of time before the real supertankers on the oceans are not oil tankers, but water tankers taking drinkable water to water poor states. A water trade is bound to build up in the coming years. Piperlines, terminals, tankers, etc. The northern nations of the world should be the Saudis of water. And as for the Saudis, I say put a water embargo on those terrorist cunts.
If you fill a ship with water wouldn't it sink? Seems like that's happened from time to time.
Ship it in submarines then.
If you dehydrate it first you can ship in dry bulk container ships.
Yeah but then you're putting beaucoup dihydrogen monoxide straight into the atmosphere.
Coming soon: UN Agenda 21 1/2 and a Pee Tax. Seriously, the control freaks explored all the options: "In searching for a new enemy to unite 'us,' we came up with THE IDEA that pollution, the THREAT OF global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would FIT THE BILL. - Club of Rome
There you go. That's out of the box thinking right there.
oops.
No, because fresh water is lighter than salt water. Or maybe it's heavier, I'm not sure.
It's actually heavier.
Jack - wise comments.
NoVa
The Saudis will be out of (ground) water by 2016. They will need to use (keep) more of their oil to convert salt to fresh water ( a very energy intensive process). Their people are already on revolutionary edge and an increase in food prices (and water access) will put them over the top
Notice how modern AG is a major player in our stupidity. Not only does it use (misuse) water by trying to grow plants in deserts (California Basin) it does indeed use lots and lots of chemicals that go into the plants and ground and surprise surprise make it into the ground water. Although others point out the earth can't lose water, very very litlle of it is drinkable and we continue to pollute it and suck the aquifers dry. The solution (and probably the only solution) is permaculture principles on a large scale that (like the old farm ponds) capture and hold the water and reacquify the land. Modern AG is one of the most destructive things weve ever done (notice the irony) and is now so large, global corporate, and warlike (See Monsanto) that it threatens our very existence.
Not that I'm angry
Well stated!
Modern AG was a good idea which went way, way too far to squeeze out each and every last cent, especially with the Patent Troll Masters of MonSatan as many of us have seen with Indian farmers. I expect these corporate scum to suffer greatly if they don't receive a bankster-type bailout as Wall St. did in '08. I'm still kicking myself when my gut instinct screamed at me to short both Freddie and Fannie and I didn't cast out a line. Some out there are shorting Monsanto and I expect the schadenfreude to ring loudly. I can't place a timeline just yet - but I sense it will happen.
Water will be of increasingly significant value if a war isn't started, likely more so if one is! It'll be a win-win for most, and I foresee government buyout or forced takeover for "security" reasons in a few jurisdictions. I'd love to own more horses, chickens and other animals here, yet they require more food and it'd get quite expensive giving them the store bought fake orange drinks we Sheeple prize. Water is always on the minds of any farmer or rancher in my region of Flyover Nation. It was a huge factor of why beef is way more expensive now. It'll take several more years before herds are large enough to make up the deficit.
If the existing aquifers run dry, this land becomes more desert. Some in the resource-dependent cities may well think "Oh good! More land for solar panels or wind turbines." but they overlook where the produce comes from. Not always California, and Brazil has their ongoing issues, even with a weaker Real in relation to USD. More and more, I'm watching this self-fulfilling prophecy many repeatedly drum out of WWIII and will be truly surprised if it doesn't happen in the next year for this and so many reasons.
China is already importing Great Lakes wawa if I recall correctly.
How is a toilet that you have to flush 2-3x to work, more efficient than the old 3g flusher that did it in one! I should have kept the ones from my 60 year old house when I moved.
Maybe you should look into your diet.
Choice of toilet, old or new, matters less than the angle of your drain. If your crapper plugs a lot, odds are good that the drain is almost horizontal. Most drain pipes are installed to code, but code sometimes isn't good enough for reliable flushing:
http://www.doityourself.com/stry/drain-pipe-slope-calculation <-- "Accurately calculating the slope of your drain pipe is essential to the proper working of your plumbing fixtures. According to plumbing code, your drain pipe has to be sloped a minimum of ¼-inch per foot and a maximum of 3 inches per foot or vertical. A slope of less than ¼-inch per foot will cause constant drain clogs and a slope of more than 3 inches will allow the water to drain without the solids..."
Proper slope can save thousands of gallons of water and untold needless plunging and related hassle during the life of the system. It isn't complicated. In my experience, bad crapper installation is often the mark of a poor builder.
If your as old as your prior house you should just feel lucky that you had a good bowel movement.
Only palefaces are stupid enough to design systems where they shit in the same water they need to drink.
"you have to flush 2-3x to work."
Wow, they must be whoppers.
Because the old flushers were 7 gallons, not 3. Some of the modern toilets work much better than others. Look for ones that have a swirling motion rather than a straight shot from front to back as the water goes down.
Actually, the average American consumes ~2,000 gallons a day if you factor in all the steps on the way.
It's more in water poor regions where there's little rainfall and ancient aquifers are being drained. And don't even ask about Silicon Valley and wafer production.
You're... kinda pass the point of return.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWNWi-ZWL3c
or shale
Well if the fucking NSA would shut down their storage in Utah that might get the west another couple decades. I bet thats the last tap to get shut off however.
The dudes at Nestle just got wood looking at this fear porn centerfold
Liberal States 101: Invite million of illegals into your state, allow them to use your natural resources while being a net-negative on your economy and blame the lack of valuable resources on climate change.
oh DAT TRU +100
Oh, it gets better...Hands Up Don't Shoot!
“The illegal alien dreamer that murdered my son only served four months of an eight month sentence for assault with a deadly weapon and battery on a police officer,” Shaw said. “He was released from the county jail the day before he executed my son. Why was this violent illegal alien allowed to walk the streets of America instead of being deported?” “Do black lives really matter or does it matter only if you are shot by a white person or a white policeman?” he added, before alluding to the ‘hands up, don’t shoot’ saying that became popular following the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson, Mo. “My son was shot in the head by an illegal alien gang banger while he lay on his back with his hands up. he still shot him through his hand into his head and killed him.” http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/414413/father-tells-congress-my-son-was-murdered-dreamer-joel-gehrke #BlackLivesMatterVery sad; it is a human issue, one of moral decay and everyone is "infected" with the disease...it just manifests itself in different ways and to different degrees..very sad.
I have a Mr Bill plastic doll, and I pushed his hands up towards the ceiling at work in the office today.
Apparently the cultural reference escapes most people...
Yes, I'm a dirty Son of a Bitch for being born in the U.S.A.......
Now its Peak Water is it? (on a planet composed of 3/4 water).
So this is another "infrastructure overhaul" issue for the "city folks" that central planners simply must address with moar printed dollars to keep them happy and content while staring down into their i-shit while they walk from Starbucks to their appointed vork locations!
Fucking please.
Speaking of i-shit, I wonder how many gallons of water it takes to make an iPhone or iPad. I think I'm going to write my Dimocrat Congresscritter and the Dimocrat Senator from my state and ask them to sponsor bills requiring all mechanical and electronic items have a sticker on them showing this. We have all sorts of info on food, we have energy usage info on electronics, why not water usage to create the food or any other stuff?
since they count the number of gallons used twice or three times in this infograph, i fail to see the issue.
Consider the source...NPR.com, NYTIMES.com, EPA.gov, CNN.com etc.
Why don't we dig up all the excess snow east of the rockies, put it in water tanks and ship it to SoCal? Water problem solved.
Why not give SoCal back to Mexico? No longer a problem for the USA then. As part of the package give Pelosi, Boxer and Feinstein to Mexico as well.
Fuck that - we stole it fair and square, and we're keeping it.
And the zips in da OC would never go for it.
I can tell you that I will never install one of the new crappers. When I move, I'm taking my three old crappers with me.
Dr Engali: I can tell you that I will never install one of the new crappers. When I move, I'm taking my three old crappers with me.
http://www.incinolet.com/
LOW FLOWS are Crap! Or are they???? I absolutely believed that my entire life (56). I hated every low flow toilet I used. This past winter I finally replace an old low flush toilet that was over 15 years old. That dam toilet could barely flush pee. I had to flush any "deposit" before adding any paper. Even then the nearby plunger was almost a daily tool. Fortunately, it was the second toilet in the house and the one in the hall bathroom was pre-low flush. Thus it still worked competently.
We are in the country on a septic system. This past year, due to health reasons my wife endured, we needed to find a tall boy toilet. After a bit of research, I found this 5 star rated toilet: KOHLER Highline Classic Biscuit 1.28-GPF (4.85-LPF) 12-in Rough-In WaterSense Elongated 2-Piece Comfort Height Toilet. It was easy for her to sit down on and get up off of.
This is a low flow toilet and much to my shock and awe, it is absolutely phenomenal. I watch in awe every time I flush it. After 30 years the engineers have finally perfected low flow. There is NOTHING it won’t flush down completely on the first flush. When it flushes you would swear it wasn’t using more than a couple cups of water. It’s been installed about 6 months now. I am still amazed (you feel stupid watching a toilet flush but it’s hard to look away). It is one of the truly outstanding American made products I have seen in the past 40 years. This MOFO works! It will change your mind and make a believer out of you.
You can bid, on EBAY, for my old plunger. It's retired.
A low-flow toilet that actually works! No Shit!
By design...!
They've improved over the years.
Now the most.horrific thing in the world is waterless urinals. Whoever thought that was a good idea needs to have their dick chopped off. The guy that has to service those things needs.to have a respirator with fresh carbon packs on. You'd be amazed how the minerals in piss precipitate out and choke those things solid.
concentrated urine ... reminds me of the story about how Phosphorus was discovered:
The discovery of phosphorus is credited to the German alchemist Hennig Brand in 1669, although other chemists might have discovered phosphorus around the same time.[46] Brand experimented with urine, which contains considerable quantities of dissolved phosphates from normal metabolism.[14] Working in Hamburg, Brand attempted to create the fabled philosopher's stone through the distillation of some salts by evaporating urine, and in the process produced a white material that glowed in the dark and burned brilliantly. It was named phosphorus mirabilis ("miraculous bearer of light").[47] His process originally involved letting urine stand for days until it gave off a terrible smell. Then he boiled it down to a paste, heated this paste to a high temperature, and led the vapours through water, where he hoped they would condense to gold. Instead, he obtained a white, waxy substance that glowed in the dark. Brand had discovered phosphorus. We now know that Brand produced ammonium sodium hydrogen phosphate, (NH
4)NaHPO
4. While the quantities were essentially correct (it took about 1,100 litres [290 US gal] of urine to make about 60 g of phosphorus), it was unnecessary to allow the urine to rot. Later scientists discovered that fresh urine yielded the same amount of phosphorus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus
Interesting stuff, urine.
No way man. You're full of shit.
Not any more. Now that I have my new low flow, lol
I shit in a bucket and throw it out the backdoor. Compost. I don't like over working my gaskets. Water isn't free. I'm being green (brown?). It smells like a farm. We should all shit n buckets. A nation of bucket shitters?
I would love to see a million man march. Each with his own bucket of shit. Take them to washinton and throw them on the white house and the capital.
It'd probably improve the smell.
I know a way we can save water in America. Stop the tide of illegal immigrants. Power down all those NSA supercomputers that keep track of all our emails. And eliminate the TSA.
dude - I know first hand - illegals do not know how to use a toilet.
They wipe their butt with toilet paper but then they throw the paper onto the floor, in the corner. They learned to use paper, but never learned to flush it down. I guess they used something else before crossing the border.
honest story - my first job was at a car wash.
Same in China. Every public toilet has a sign saying not to flush paper down the hole. Though they do provide a trash can to put the TP in.
This is for a very good reason: their water processing plants / sewers can't handle the cellulose.
You can argue about the engineering aspects of this (and how Americans are destroying their plants with stuff like wetwipes), but there's a very good reason for it.
Because the sewage in underdeveloped countries is usually untreated, so it flows to the stream/river/ocean directly. Flushing toilet paper would mean it just shows up downstream.
UM, I have lived around water all of my life; the amount of water does not change because no new created water exists that did not already exist nor is any of it destroyed. But when you populate an area where there is no water you might have a problem.
However, you humans sure know how to take a good thing and ...well you fill in the gap and be nice.
Yea, so living on a water planet sux. If we can't figure out DESAL we deserve to shrivel up and die. Seriously. The tech is here.
But hey, lets build more drones and stoopid shit like that. Lets make DHS double in size the next ten years. Order a bakers dozen of new Boomers and throw another 50 or more F-22's on top.
Oh, and bail out more banks too.
Priorities.
The energy costs and PM costs of a Desalination plant for LA say, it would make it too expensive.
Don't look for it to be done.
It would require a completely different way of living and people don't change that Easliy unless forced to do so.
Stand by for turbulence...
p.s.
Ain't nothin you can do to help Vegas. It is literally running out in a few years. Oh, and check out San Paulo. They ran out, Past tense.
This is exactly why I've been hoarding water for the last 35 years. We now have over 659,000 gallons in stock. Knew I was right all along while stocking up. Fucking A !!!!!!
Be careful not to have a boating accident with all that water!
with it, or in it?
At a place I used to work, we had a water main break right in front of the building. I was concerned about the City of Houston shutting off the water and having my cooling tower run dry. This was at 9:00am.
The city workers show up, look at their maps and drawings and I see a few hop in a truck and drive away to look for isolation valves. In a few minutes, the water gushing out of the hole slows, then goes back to the same flow. It does this several times and I think it was the city crews verifying that these were indeed the valves they needed to stop the flow and make repairs.
About 10 minutes later all the guys are back in their trucks or otherwise hanging around. This goes on till 11:30 when they stop for lunch.
At 1:00pm, another truck shows up with equipment in the back a backhoe on its trailer and I'm thinking FINALLY THEY'RE GONNA GET GOING, but no, there's another 2 hours of hanging around and shooting the shit.
At 3:00pm, the beginning of rush hour, the jackhammers start and the backhoe comes off and the work begins.
I go inside and the security guard explains to me the her brother works for the city, and thats how most water main repairs work out. The fuckers don't want to do anything until after 3:00pm because that's when overtime is paid.
Fuckers
Read the bottom line:
Sponsored by NPR, NY Times, the EPA, and NRDC. No bias there. Of course these numbers can be trusted!
That said, I'd move out of Vegas and leave the southwest to the natives, if I was you...
Out here in my neck of the woods (left coast, Portland) our snow pack is 10% of normal this year. We get our water from Mt. Hood where we have a reservoir. We had absolutely no snow in the city this year. We've always had at least 1-3 "snow days" every winter here over my 60 years experience.
Making things worse, the California drought you know about actually stretches into Central Oregon but it's not as severe as California's thirst. We had one water ration drought summer that I recall. I think that was in the 70's. I think this year is next. It's not that we don't have rivers all around us ( we're on the Columbia R.) but, except for the 10% of normal mountain snowpack, we don't have any filtration plants, just storm and sewage filtration before going into the river.
As opposed to the rest of the country, we've set local records for lack of rain and higher than normal temps NW wide. Oregonian's don't tan, we rust. Normally. Considering the weather extremes nation wide, something feels like change, or a cycle in extreme phase is in effect.
As if we all don't have enough to worry about.
Yeah that Columbia River is polluted by the Hanford nuclear installation. Who knows how much plutonium and other high lever waste is cooking in that river bottom sediment and leaching into the water. No thanks.
Don't worry. All those vibrants heading up to you will sort the problem out. They're very good at that kind of thing. At least that's what the media tell me....
It is always something to make a 20 year job for somebody that wants to live off of the public titty...............
My water comes in from upriver and goes out down river......
I cannot pump enough water to run my well dry....
If you guys want to drink that shit in the big cities then it is your choice, not mine..............
Interesting article in the Palm Springs newspaper about Nestle and other companies getting water from springs all around California in National Forests despite the drought and even though relevent permits have expired, some as long as 30 years ago. In addition, there is no agency keeping record of how much water is being taken by bottlers or what effect it has on water supplies and ecosystems (in California, of all places, where everything is tracked and permits are required for all plebian activity). No recent environmental impact reports, which is really weird.
http://www.desertsun.com/story/news/2015/03/05/bottling-water-california...
And sure there's a drought, I believe it. But they're sure stilll building hotels, resorts and housing tracts in the desert. Not as rapidly as they did before Lehman but it's escalating again. Lots of pools and scaled-down water features, some golf courses and xeriscaped yards.
That article made me thirsty.
Let's all sing together: "No water no cry...."
Once again Israel is the perfect model for a resolution to this issue, they generate 2/3rds of their water needs from desalination. The entire city of Tel Aviv gets its water almost exlusivly from the ocean.
Too bad so many on these very boards are clueless haters.
I greatly admire the Israelis and Jews in general. That doesn't mean I can't see or won't call them out when they're f*cking us over.
I don't get this water shortage thing at all. If they had a Winter like they're having in the east the west and Rockies would be swamped in water due to snow run off alone. That would fill the lakes and aquifirs Or am I wrong?
That 49% Thermoelectric Power number is way wrong!!! 99.9 % of all the water used for power generation is heated and cooled, then returned to the enviroment unchanged.
Shame on ZH for using such a shabby prop, to make what is otherwise, an important point!!!
Blue planet.
For now.