The Demand for Water Will Increase Five Times By 2050

then we should melt Greenland

 

It may well have to come to that. Dire straits demand drastic measures. Why would anyone object to life-saving and resource-saving measures?

 

It's already melting: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jan/26/greenland-ice-sheet-climate-change

 

So? You don't know where it's going to end do you? Is Greenland as habitable as it was when the vikings lived there for several hundred years? No? Then it's not warm enough yet to complain or show fear.

 

Very true, It's early and I have the stomach flu, sorry.

 

Ok, so we'll just ignore it in the hope the melt won't affect us? That's really creative.

 

I wish you well.

 

Perhaps because its OUR fresh water and not YOURS?

There is as much water on this planet as there has always been...by and large...the difference is...can you drink your fresh water?

Allot of the fresh water outside the Americas is polluted and undrinkable.
Europeans are already worried about this.
I believe Canada already pipes clean water down to California.
You people can continue to ignore the signs of depleting resources and goose-step in line for your corporatist masters...as we all know you will...but we up here are just gonna watch and wait.

 

Good

then get the ball rolling within Europe and the UK and then move to Japan, Australia, Singapore, the Koreas and let us know how it's going

 

Thx for the critique, even if you did feel it necessary to defend liberal hysteria over the situation.

We won't be manufacturing any more water, so the only thing we can do is get better at cleaning the water we have. Unfortunately, politics gets in the way of making progress toward that end... like Obama dining in golden palaces in India while 65 million are without clean drinking water in that country.

Where shall we start, Mr. SS, if our own leaders refuse to insist on basic human rights by our trading partners & allies?

 

Do you want the government to build desalination plants?

When you travel overseas do you drink the local water available in the slums?

 

There are innovative and practical solutions to providing water for all Americans and people throughout the world. One solution that we should consider is a new type of water purification technology called a water theatre. Essentially, a water theatre is a water purification system that pumps in sea water, and utilizes filtration systems to desalinize the water, making the water adequate for drinking, etc. A water theatre also can be a tourist attraction, as they are an intrigung architectural marvel.

A water theatre has been supplying water to the town of Las Palmas, Spain:

http://www.exploration-architecture.com/section.php?xSec=27

The following is an animated picture of a water theatre:

 

[sarcasm]Yeah, why not? Europeans are already used to Holocausts and millions of people dying. [/sarcasm]

You enviro-geeks sure are stupid.

 

Really? Who is it that ensures your water is safe to bathe and fish in? Why, it's those stupid enviro-geeks the United States EPA!

 

There will need to be an assessment of these desalinization plant's impacts on wildlife before implementing them.

 

I have no power over what the govt of other countries chooses to do. That's where our political leaders are supposed to step in and insist on basic human rights for the people of countries we do business with. Why do you think this is no longer a priority for US leaders? IMO, a much bigger problem than the physical purification of water.

 

You want the US to FIX water problems worldwide??????

 

The EPA are not enviro-geeks. They are a government entity, subject to the politics and agenda of whatever executive administration comes along. For instance, if I were a U.S. President, I would deregulate the EPA and take away the entire Green agenda, because I really don't like the idea of shutting down coal plants and people's electricity just to save our air that naturally filters crap out of it on its own, or forcing people to buy a 20-year light bulb. Because these are examples of manufacturing industries that create jobs.

Why put millions of people out of work just to save the environment when there is no concrete evidence that we are destroying it? This is symbolism, not science. For example, we know that AIDS and cancer exist, and we are trying to find a cure for them. We don't know that Man is destroying the environment; enviro-geeks like you just think that it might be happening. So you attempt to socialize everything and force everyone to abide by your socialist agenda. Again, the Green agenda is symbolism and politics, not hard science.

 

The EPA sent out a bunch of geeks to shut my brother down..

They didn't know their basic chemistry and thought his gases were flammable.

Cost him a bundle to prove they needed to get up to speed.

They aren't infallible.

 

In fifty years we would be smart to be on a hydrogen energy system. Burning hydrogen produces pure water that can be put into the local water supply.

 

That actually sounds kinda funny. You're basically saying that your brother had a gas problem.

 

By putting pressure on the leaders of countries we trade with?

Absolutely. Most effective way we have of helping to alleviate human suffering all over the world. Do you disagree?

 

You are right. And the emissions would go up into the atmosphere as steam and back into the environment as clouds, which would rain water down on the Earth. Wash, rinse, and repeat. The only problem with that idea is that we would have a lot of cloudy days as a result of it.

 

Yeah .. a 50 million dollar industrial gas problem.

 

What sort of pressure?

I don't think you have an accurate picture of India or our clout.