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- HammerAndBoner, on 12/19/2007, -5/+66I didn't know pro wrestlers cared so much about our earth.
- DeviantDragon, on 12/19/2007, -2/+46False. We require more vespene gas.
- HammerAndBoner, on 12/19/2007, -6/+35FALSE: Black Bear
Fact: Bear's Eat Beets.
Bear's Beat Battlestar Galctica - Dokument, on 12/19/2007, -1/+21theres no i in team.
but theres an i in pie
like meat pie
and meat is an anagram of team. - nullcodes, on 12/19/2007, -1/+16There is enough water.
The problems are:
1. Lack of desalination and purification facilities (desalination costs are pennies per cubic meter).
2. Lack of infrastructure to pipeline water to locations that don't have it.
Only a fool thinks we physically don't have enough water. - ledmonkey, on 12/19/2007, -1/+14Wrong, However. YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS!
- sensoukami, on 12/19/2007, -7/+18I say again...stop subsidizing water for everyone and their dog....it's too damn valuable to give away. We're subsidizing swimming pools, rose gardens, and guys who wash their sportscars three times a week...so stupid.
- inactive, on 12/19/2007, -0/+10I'm guessing you smell worse than your car after 2 days without bathing.
- Dokument, on 12/19/2007, -2/+10spawn more overlords
- bjornski, on 12/19/2007, -1/+8If YOU want to pay Coca-Cola prices for water, go right ahead and do it.
I'll give you the same advice the libertarians spout whenever someone says something about their living situation.
Move.
Wasted water, and inefficiency IS something to be concerned with. Rushing out to privatize yet another public utility would be disastrous.
Unless you have a CHOICE as to who is your water supplier, and let me tell you. That isn't happening.
So dig your own well, or move. - Zavaro, on 12/19/2007, -1/+8Right, HammerAndBoner! But they do! President Camacho does! He was a pro-wrestler AND ex-porn star.
I suggest using Brawndo to fix our shortage. - johndi, on 12/19/2007, -2/+8Growing rice isn't a poor use of water, afterall we all need to eat. The problem is that our current agricultural practices are so inefficient that the water wasted is more than the water used in households, industry, and commercial use combined.
- calista17, on 12/19/2007, -1/+7water? like from the toilet?
- MatttK, on 12/19/2007, -0/+6Check to make sure none of your pipes got wrecked in a natural disaster. You might be missing one connection under a road... you can tell if the whole area isn't blue when you go to pipe view.
- Tenlow, on 12/19/2007, -0/+6It's got what plants crave!
Brought to you by carl's jr. - Nanobe, on 12/19/2007, -1/+6Ocean water isn't that useful. We get very little of our drinking water from the ocean because it's much more expensive to filter. Sure, if we run out of readily available fresh water sources, we could always fall back on filtering salt water, but prices for fresh water would have to be forced much higher because of the increased cost of "production". Imagine a glass of water costing as much as the same glass of soda currently costs. Showers will never be the same.
- eximious, on 12/19/2007, -2/+7Glad to see that water usage is receiving attention. I'd also add that grass is the most irrigated crop in America. Watering lawns consumes between 40-60% of most people's water usage.
- Laiden, on 12/19/2007, -0/+5Get over it. We need your water. kthxbi
- rarson, on 12/19/2007, -0/+5It's got electrolytes!
- Bhima, on 12/19/2007, -0/+4Charging Americans a fair price for water is in no way a crime against humanity. Charging them on a punitive nonlinear scale is also not a crime.
Using the US state department to setup water monopolies for US corporations in developing nations is a crime against humanity. There is an important difference. Americans will not adopt conservation habits unless water becomes prohibitively expensive. So the only way develop such habits in the US is sell the first few hundred cubic feet cheap and then get very expensive, very fast. - bjornski, on 12/19/2007, -1/+5Exactly. And as I said to the poster above you, this is what you get when you privatize something like water.
We'll run into the same situation we have in health care. When it's privatized, you'll have "haves" and "have nots". You'll get a single company, who owns all the pipes in your area, charging "what the market will bear" They'll serve 80% of the citizens who have no choice but to pay, and tell the other 20% to ***** off. Like in health care.
Privatized health care is GREAT! Except for the 1/6 of the population that doesn't have it, and another 1/3 that can't afford to USE it.
Privatize water, and we'll get the same thing. Water should be nationalized. And kept clean. It IS a right.
Now. The issue with agri-business using it as horribly as they do, maybe it's time to look into that. Maybe we should have the same rule as the Chinese restaurants have here. "Take what you want, but there will be a charge for wasting"
Maybe private home drinking water should be tax supported and BUSINESS should use privatized water so they can pay by the gallon. - bjornski, on 12/19/2007, -0/+4*****.
How many water companies will you be able to serve you on your pre-installed pipes?
Privatizing anything, without a market to pick from, is a bad idea. If you don't have a choice, it shouldn't be privatized for profit.
And your "free market" would invariably leave certain people who CAN NOT afford the newly raised, privatized price.
What should they do? Just move? Ever try moving to a new state when you can't afford basic health care, or in this case, water? It's not cheap or easy. Maybe they should just die off for your convenience? - bjornski, on 12/19/2007, -0/+3But...but...but... the timers! It's too damn hard to go turn the knob on when I want it watered!
Golf courses should be paying by the gallon for sure also. What a waste of land and water. - flahavin, on 12/19/2007, -0/+3The Rock Says you can take that gallon of water, turn that sum' a bitch sideways, and shove it right up your candy ass - The Rock
- Ghoztt, on 12/19/2007, -0/+3Although what you say is quite true, Nanobe, I believe that we must continue to poor money into desalinization plants, and research into more efficient desalinization technologies. Their must be new and more efficient ways to desalinate salt water, that we haven't even begun to tap into. Just as 10 years ago technology for solar power wasn't even as efficient as what we are just coming out with today.
To delay on putting money into this R&D is absolute foolishness, for with the population of the Earth ever rising, we will be forced to look to the oceans for water very shortly. And it is best to be prepared. - barc0001, on 12/19/2007, -0/+3You think there's water issues now, just wait. Do a bit of reading on all the jackholes in the southeast US draining the underground water table as fast as they all can. In 10-15 years that's going to bite that whole region in the ass bigtime. Tragedy of the commons and all that.
- bosssmiley, on 12/19/2007, -1/+4I agree with Bjornski. The UK privatised its water, gas and electrical utilities about 15 years ago now. What have we seen? Rising prices, straining infrastructure and systemic waste on a colossal scale; all in the name of shareholder value.
Some things have to be run publicly, for the mutual benefit of all. The raw, naked greed of the market has little place when it comes to reliably and cheaply providing the necessities (and this is a small govt conservative voter talking). - 89992, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2I think the key word here is "cheaply".
- awakenDeepBlue, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2Read: Starcraft
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcraft - hell0dave, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2If you live in Australia, True
- inactive, on 12/19/2007, -2/+4I bet the Ultimate Warrior could take care of our water crisis with one swift kick to the nads.
- maaaaark, on 12/19/2007, -2/+4Seriously? You took the time to post that?
- silentphoenix, on 12/19/2007, -2/+4yeah first of all, we can all stop watering our lawns when its raining outside
- Pherdnut, on 12/19/2007, -1/+3Why, when you live in a desert, wouldn't you take that as an excuse to not HAVE to mow and water the !@#$ing lawn. Idiots. I hate suburbanites. Put these guys on the moon with limited resources and the first thing they' do is build an Applebee's, make the lander look more like an SUV and try to get some grass growing.
- linagee, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2Who needs water when there's Brawndo, the thirst mutilator. It's got electrolytes!
- saifatlast, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2S-s-s-s-source?
- chahar, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2real issue we need to focus on
- jabrthel, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2@bjornski
Yes, your own well would be useless... but you wouldn't be allowed to drill your own well because you wouldn't necesarrily own the rights to the water underneath your property. Think of it like a condo... you own your apt on the 6th floor but do not have any rights to the property on the 5th or 7th floor. This is how it could be with land, too. You would own your 5 acres of land and the rights to dig into it for a certain depth and to build up on it a certain height... but you don't own the rights to the water resevoir 500 yards underneath you nor do you necessarily own the right to the air 5000 yards above you... as that air, in part belongs to the people who manage passenger flights. - djpants428, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2Not to mention that with all the chemicals they put on them they are really toxic..
- maliath, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2I live in Lubbock, TX. Everyone and their dog is a member of the local car wash. It's absolutely insane. There's a lot of dust here that makes your car look a bit dirty. However, there's no salt on the roads for ice or salt in the air from the coast (it's a very dry place). Therefore, the dirtiness really does not effect your car in a mechanical way (except for air filtration, and that's a simple task of replacing your air filter here and there). It's stunning how much water is wasted on washing cars and watering grass lawns in this city. Especially given the fact that there is so much agriculture nearby. Water should be considered a right in Western nations and should not be used in disgusting excess.
- dtele, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2Come to Australia - WE NEED MORE WATER!
- jonoxplor, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2Everyone that comes to australia need to bring 2 litres of water with them.....
- Scheissen, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2Well, duh. They are government granted monopolies, they don't have to compete.
- HomerS1, on 12/19/2007, -0/+2In other incredibly obvious news, there is already enough food to feed everyone on the planet.
The problem is that many governments (or de-facto local governments with guns) and international groups use food as a weapon or grab for power. - inajeep, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1What a wonderfully stupid naive statement. I guess you haven't figured out how to search the internet for the answer.
- Cerebral, on 12/19/2007, -1/+2How can you count the ice caps as fresh water? We don't use it so you shouldn't be able to count it. not only that but wouldn't that cause more storms (rain) which would create new lakes and thus fresh water?
- bjornski, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1It's not your lake.
As the libertarians say. "If you don't like it, move" - bjornski, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1And the west coast also. You don't buy a house in CA or AZ without finding out exactly how the water rights work.
Enjoy your coastlines. - bjornski, on 12/19/2007, -0/+1Water at nuke plants doesn't get used up, or ruined, it gets warmed and then pumped back out to the cooling pond, to be used again.
And what do you propose besides nukes? More coal? -
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