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- sfox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39Those guys need laptops first
- Duositex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22If there are a BILLION people without access to clean drinking water, the lack of clean drinking water must not be much of a threat to humanity. After all.. if pregnant women can survive long enough to breed a BILLION people in those conditions, can it really be THAT much of a problem for our species?
- cbfreder, on 10/12/2007, -9/+29Funny, chlorine is very good at actually maintaining clean drinking water as it flows through the pipes, and fluoridated water is single best thing that can be done to protect your teeth. But, then again, you're a reflexologist, and pseudo-scientists don't have to worry about proof.
- cankillar, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26Yeah, but they're not American. They don't really exist.
/sarcasm - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21Here's an idea. Stop having kids!!!
Darwinism, we are a species like any other on this planet. Some aren't supposed to make it. - nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18It takes 22 times more energy to make the bottle for Fiji water than to get the water.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16...And of course, on the FIRST damn comment, the Digg community drags America into it and somehow tries to spin it to make the problem the nations' fault.
- ScottMaximus1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18What a Reflexologist is
>Practitioners believe the foot to be divided into a number of reflex zones corresponding to all zones of the energy of the >body, and that applying pressure in the form of massage to "tight" or "gritty" areas of a person's foot will stimulate the >corresponding part of the energy body and assist the self-healing process. Contrary to some beliefs, reflexology does not >seek to diagnose or cure medical conditions - merely imbalances in the energy of the body. - dkoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Water = Poison! I have prove that every single person on earth that had drank water will eventually die. STOP DRINKING NOW!
- turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10look it up anywhere you want, Im not your bitch, but tap water is regulated more than bottled water. sensibly chlorinated water isn't bad for you.
- DrScott, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11What about landlocked nations? Like parts of the Middle East, India, and Africa? Where most of these 1 billion live?
- Sneakernets, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16Oh boy This is such Conspiracy-sounding crap. Fluorinated water is eeevilll! please.
Tinfoil is bad for the environment too, you know. - fiftycents, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11anybody else here willing to look at this on the brighter side?
100 years ago, nobody had clean drinking water.
We've gotten to the point where over 5/6 of the world has clean water.
I'm not saying its not bad that people don't have good water, and maybe we can and we definitely should help them, but lets look at our progress as a positive thing. - yhvdyt, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17"Every eight seconds, a young child dies". Doesn't that help reduce co2 emissions and help fight global warming in the long term? Gotta look at the big picture.
- Sneakernets, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14"That's the same as a 747 jetliner full of kids going down every hour. "
Awesome. Can you hear the screams?
no I can't either. This article isn't news. - yhvdyt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The Mayflower colonists decided to settle at Plymouth because they were running low on beer. Beer was a dietary mainstay in those days. An advantage was that, unlike more perishable foodstuffs, ship's beer would keep during long voyages and, having been boiled, was likely purer than ordinary water.
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13not true. tap water is perfectly healthy in almost all places. It's usually better for you than bottled water because it is regulated more closely. Also, bottled water sometimes has rat feces in it.... like... often....
- dugR, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12oh god, shut up. i hate these kind of things. "SEVENDEY BILLONSSS DIE EVERYS DAYS" donate just a dollar a day and change lives... and also to feed my fat American stomach. blah blah blah.
help those around you first before you start hiking across the world with a back pack filled with Poland spring water bottles. - burkinaboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11FYI... water scarcity is the theme of this year's World Water Day @ http://www.unwater.org/wwd07/flashindex.html
- 8177, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9K ill help. I need your bank account, credit card numbers, drivers license and SIN. That way i can, uhh, send you money.
- 8177, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Gatorades the number one drink for homophobes.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Over population ensues.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7thanks for raising awareness, but what are we actually supposed to do about it?
- jmholloway, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Its funny, but saying a 747 full of children crashing every hour seems worse to me than saying every eight seconds, a young child dies from lack of water or a waterborne disease.
strange o.O; - 8177, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The problem with those is that they are cheap, hard to make money off of them so nobody will make them.
- BESTenemy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Another euphimism: "young child". What other kinds are there? Old childrent and oversized infants with 800 pound heads? I guess I might start calling myself an "old child" then.
- Muyoso, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yea, cause in the first example you are losing a 747.
- Calann, on 10/12/2007, -5/+10Wouldn't spending money on issues like this be better than spending a billion dollars a week on a war in Iraq?
- Skwerl, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8Agreed, and if it is a problem, wouldn't that problem be caused by over population?
- The0, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9I hate it when they take statistics and turn them into something totally unrelated and stupid, like "thats the equivalent of a 747 full of kids going down every hour."
Thats *****. If that were really the problem, the solution is easy. Stop flying planes filled with children over the Bermuda Triangle. Abraca-*****-dabra, problem solved. But thats not the problem. It isn't that simple, so stop trying to throw us a twisted guilt trip by making the solution sound easier. Solving this problem would involve filtering every source of water on Earth, and thats one hell of a task that nobody reading this article can realistically do anything about. - Afreyt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Indians, passing dirty ganges water through several layers of Sari cloth removes almost all of the pathogen that causes cholera.
A simple solar still made out of a sheet of plastic and a bucket solves most every water problem people have.
I hate to say it, but the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys. They don't need water purification plants; they need education.
You can build a decent purification column with a 55 gallon drum filled with rocks and sand.
Somebody should be telling people. - elitexero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Maybe people in those countries need to stop having kids, seeings as all the kids just die anyway.
- UrbanVoyeur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4We have more people than resources can easily support. Lack of water is not the problem. Over-population is. If the people lacking access to clean drinking water would have just 2 kids instead of 7-12, then there would be enough clean water (and food) in just a few generations. THAT is sustainability.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4ya well guess what, its gonna be 10 billion people lack access to clean water in about 30years
- Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5One possible solution would be to distribute LifeStraws to the third world:
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1129522-2,00.html
For a cost of about $3, this invention uses seven types of filters, including mesh, active carbon and iodine, to make 185 gal. of water clean enough to drink. It can prevent waterborne illnesses, such as typhoid and diarrhea, that kill at least 2 million people every year in the developing world.
Plus, buying these and sending them to other countries has the added bonus of not having to send cash, that would be immediately intercepted by corrupt governments. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4more on lifestraw
http://www.lifestraw.com/en/high/maincont2.asp
so STFU and do something about it - but none of you are going to donate are you?
http://www.rotaryfiltastraw.org.uk/ - nullcodes, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6The problem is lack of energy, we have the water .. we dont have the energy production capacity to securely get purified water where it needs to be.
- hamandcheese, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9Excuse me, but how else are we suppose to regulate population?
- moudig, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well, they complain that they have less, that they die from diseases. But the western families don't have tens of children!!!!
- nullcodes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Maybe that's the goal for some.
Dude, that's a great post. No doubt people argue against such ideas claiming that helping them will increase pollution and the much feared overpopulation. Nevermind that richer countries/people unfortunately have far less kids and are able to control pollution much better than poor countries such as India. - esotericguy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Glad I live in Mexico!
oh wait.... - nullcodes, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@30trip
People who are well off tend to reproduce less. I have to repost this: Look at the population growth of India and African countries versus the very slow growth rate of western europe, japan (which is now in a negative crisis state -0.02 in 2005), United Kingdom, and even the US (the only comparitively "rich" country with population growth US does have a OK population growth (ranked 130th highest) -though nowhere near as high as say 6th ranked somalia - because of income disparity and immigration).
Ranking of population growth rate (using fairly old stats):
http://www.indexmundi.com/g/r.aspx?c=in&v=24 - Ibanezfoo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Wow, your language suggests you are so far advanced beyond us apes that perhaps you should ascend back to heaven to your throne where you belong.
- PhantomBantam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I think he was being sarcastic. If not, than that's to bad. Sure, bottled water is convenient, but I can't stand the people who think it's "better" than tap water (Kevin Rose, for one). I'm not a tree hugging hippie, but I sure as hell am not going to turn my nose up at clean drinking water, which 1 billion people desperately need.
- DirtySnachez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Yes.
No, really, it would. - Ibanezfoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"Diggers" are mostly a bunch of pasty nerdy highschool kids who think they know everything, what do you expect?
- nakile, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The children? What about the adults?
- swoopdog, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4I love the people who live in the 1st world posting tonight
DUR DUR SUCKS TO BE THEM IM DA AMERICAN HIOOOOHHH!!!
Its called empathy you morons. get your hands off your e-penis and actually say something intelligent or insightful for ***** sake!
"So every 8 seconds some kid dies from lack of clean water
So that means that 7.5 kids die every minute (I have never seen half a dead kid, so I don't know how credible that is)"
ROTFL YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME LOL
You should try finishing high school before you post on the internet. - bobdole369, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Agreed, and if it is a problem, wouldn't that problem be caused by over population?
Yes, and lets take it a step further - about those who can't figure out how to get clean drinking water - maybe they are the losers in the Darwin race?
Shouldn't we let "survival of the fittest" work itself out here? - DeskFlyer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can no longer sit back and allow communist infiltration, communist indoctrination, communist subversion, and the international communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
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