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- apothekari, on 07/17/2009, -1/+30" Like in the Toilet?...Hu...huh...huh."
Everybody knows Brawndo has what plants crave.
Its got Electrolytes! - asskicker32, on 07/17/2009, -1/+18I find it funny that we flush perfectly potable water down the toilet while people in other countries dont even a) get potable water from their taps or b) dont even have running water and drink non-potable water from polluted watersheds.
- slicksoul999, on 07/17/2009, -2/+18Save water, maybe we shouldn't send a ton of it to Vegas for extravagant fountains in a desert.
- pintomp3, on 07/17/2009, -1/+15Our lawns drink better than people in many countries.
- Triplastic, on 07/17/2009, -1/+10Because it says so... DUH!
- tkeajax, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7Its got Electrolytes!
- Taiyoryu, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7The Aqus: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/10/watersaver ...
DIY water system to capture grey water from your sink to be used by your toilet's tank. - serif69, on 07/17/2009, -1/+8But how do you know that's what plants crave?
- christopherpow, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7If it's yellow, let it mellow... you know the rest...
- itsthehumidity, on 07/17/2009, -0/+7If it's brown, keep it.
There's no reason to go out and buy expensive clay for your crafts. - theAzone, on 07/17/2009, -1/+7That's what my dog does!
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5its simple... collect the rain that falls on our heads. nobody knows it, but thats almost always perfectly clean.
- neoq36, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5There's plenty of water. Each year there are more and more floods.
The problem is clean water. - lordmike, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5My dog loves drinking out of the toilet.. maybe he's onto something...
- firebhaal, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5How could the sand grow otherwise
- atm259, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5Best journalist of our era.
- Anthrax704, on 07/17/2009, -0/+5http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/the-daily-show-wi ...
Canadian Mirror - Geheg3D, on 07/17/2009, -2/+6I don't mind Jon, but I hate that dude he's interviewing in this clip.
"You get the government you deserve."
I've heard it before, but what the *****, man. It's exactly the same as saying, "You get the rapist you deserve," without even thinking, "Hey, maybe people don't deserve to be raped??"
facepalm.jpg - FXNGLAS, on 07/17/2009, -1/+5Dogs do not have cleaner mouths than a person does.
- unfilterthought, on 07/17/2009, -0/+4did you vote for your rapist?
- ftc08, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Fresh water.
Water can easily turn into salt water or sludge, but turning it back is a bitch of a process. - halvertos, on 07/17/2009, -2/+5MNN - Mother Nature Network? wow.
- mksmothers, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3Except for whatever has been released as waste in space, we have exactly the same amount of water now as we did 6 billion years ago. There is no water shortage, there is a failure in distributing the water and third world countries inability to desalinate their water.
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -1/+4point is? oh wait, i know... water falls on our heads many times more often then we want it to. in many countries, people live where water isnt even within 100 miles.... its simple geography, not human morals.
- SirBruce, on 07/17/2009, -0/+3That was the stupidest part of the entire clip, and you people don't seem to have a clue, either. Your toilet water isn't wasted! It's getting treated and recycled further downstream for drinking water. The alternative would be piping dirty water into your house for your toilet, which is not only unsanitary, but would require twice as many pipes.
- skidork, on 07/17/2009, -1/+3Stop bitching.
- esteskid, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2I like how that guy referred to air as an infinite resource. WTF
- geoboy, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Oh my
- Petestreet, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Robert Glennon was really at ease being interviewed. I notice most people being interviewed by John Stewart are a bit nervous.
I've spent about two years in places where drinking the water will make you very ill, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia. I find it sad how much water we Americans waste. It is amazing that we have such fine water coming out of our taps. Appreciate it. Don't waste it. - greevar, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2If it's brown, use it as compost. Humanure.
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2If you live near the great lakes that is what you are doing anyways.
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Move to the midwest. the great lakes are the largest source of drinkable water in the world
- Kazimieras, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2I think they were referring to the water feeding what is flushed.
- reechme, on 07/17/2009, -2/+4No, this is how to solve the OVERPOPULATION and OBESITY crisis; the truely less fortunate will drink and die - solving one problem. Those who don't die will ***** themselves thin. Job done!
- malonesm, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2Call me naive, but why is there a water crisis in America? Ignore population growth, industrial growth, and the possibility of climate change for a moment. Speaking of only the short term... what is the problem? Last I checked the water cycle I learned about in second grade still applies doesn't it? Unless it's going to stop raining forever, what is the issue? The ocean water that covers 70% of the planet evaporates, moves inland condenses and falls to the earth as fresh water... This feeds all forms of our water supply, no?
For the same reason that building Phoenix in a ***** desert was a bad idea, trying to live in other places in the world that are deserts is a ***** bad idea. No one in America can help that there's a water supply shortage in the middle east. They should either stop having babies or move. - Kazimieras, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2The big issue is that the bulk of the water supply for America (specifically the West) is all fed off one LARGE aquifer. This large body (effectively) is feeding all the major centers. It is true the water cycle will continue, however where the water lands is the problem. If it is in the oceans, it needs to be de-salinated. If it is on land... well there isn't an issue. Except that for it to reach the current sources that are being tapped, it will take a long long time. By then the aquifer will be dry. Building in Phoenix is a bad idea. Having the greenest golf course I have ever seen in the desert (Palm Springs) is a bad idea. LA is a bad idea (it too is in a desert).
- badgerfight, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2so much wasted water in those
- dsmx, on 07/17/2009, -0/+2if it's brown drink i down if it's black send it back.
- skidork, on 07/17/2009, -2/+3It's simple. Use desalinization powered by photovoltaic cells. Use the salt from that in cooking salt.
- Kazimieras, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1You know the great lakes are shrinking right? And that the 'mighty' Colorado is just a brook near its end and doesn't even reach the Gulf of Mexico anymore.
- kd1s, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1Here's another solution. Apply the "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown it must go down" rule.
- ThisIsSkynet, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1Then the landfills will be even more full than they already are, which only adds another problem.
- MooseOfReason, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1No wonder they're man's best friend!
- KOSmurfy, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1True, but it's a much smaller, more manageable problem than not having any clean water.
- ThisIsSkynet, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1The process for "renewing" water isn't easy, fast and efficient. Otherwise we wouldn't have to worry about future water supplies.
- 0biKwiet, on 07/17/2009, -1/+2If water was that scarce, the cost would go up until people were more frugal with it. That's by definition. Now certainly there are some rationing issues out west due to our desire to turn vast tracks of naturally dry dessert into arable land, but that's not even the same issue. That's a question of how we should use the resources we have in the most efficient manner.
- MooseOfReason, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1Kinda sad, isn't it?
- daronicus, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1@AmericansRevolt
Did you know that you do not actually have a right to collect water that falls on your property? It belongs to the city. Many cities don't care if you set up rain barrels because they get enough rain to keep water reserves up, but in some areas (Colorado in particular, if I remember correctly) you can be fined for quite a sum for collecting water, as it can screw up the water table. - asskicker32, on 07/17/2009, -0/+1Yeah, water is water, but the point is, most people dont think about it. We have the benefit of clean water and most people dont. We take if for granted that we dont have to worry about these things. Sure its not possible to send our toilet water to other countries, but we can look at sharing the technologies with 3rd world countries so that everyone can at least have the most basic of things: clean drinking water.
- inactive, on 07/18/2009, -0/+1no, its not. all our landfills combined wouldnt even take up 30 square miles. with the current system of 'diapering' land and using it to fill with waste, we will run out of space in about a million years. landfills are NOT a problem.
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