I saw two reports this week on NBC titled “Thirsty Planet.” The stories were about how the earth is running out of drinking water or how difficult it is for certain areas of the world to get drinking water. Well, I don’t know how to keep people from living in deserts, but I do know a little something about water.
While studying for my Civil Engineering degree, we learned about how when people flush the toilet, the waste, along with all that water, goes to a magical place where, after a little time, it is magically cleaned with a mixture of fairy dust and gummy bears, and put back into the water ways, where it will be cleaned again and delivered to our homes through magical pipes made of plastic and copper.
The problem with places like Las Vegas, Arizona, and and other deserts….is that they are deserts.
I have two solutions for the folks at NBC to solve this problem…
1. Drive east or west and eventually you’ll find water…a lot of it (and this goes for anyone anywhere in the world)…yeah it has salt in it, but guess what, if we (humans) have figured out how to clean the water we flush down the toilet, we can figure out to get salt out…(which we already have)
2. Put a bucket outside, preferably, prior to a storm…water will literally fall from the sky.
NOTE: The way waste water is cleaned is not as is described above. It’s actually more scientific than that, but with a story titled as ridiculous as “Thirsty Planet”, I figured magical fairy dust and gummy bears would make just as much sense.
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You are clueless and/or you don’t realize that sarcasm is very difficult to pull off.
For centuries water resources have been managed by communities themselves and they have sustained those living on it. But no more.
Rapid and widespread exploitation, population growth, pollution, and emphasis on increasing consumption rather than conservation have have destroyed water sources, both the aquifer and surface water.
1.1 billion people lack clean water worldwide, which direction do you want them to head????
“1.1 billion people lack clean water worldwide, which direction do you want them to head????”
…as a learned friend of mine stated…forward.
Put a bucket outside, preferably, prior to a storm…water will literally fall from the sky
When will the government be supplying us with these buckets?
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article ty Planet, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
“1.1 billion people lack clean water worldwide, which direction do you want them to head????”
“…as a learned friend of mine stated…forward.”
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“Forward” is a great corporate cliche but ‘forward’ hasn’t worked in years – that’s where we’re at today – how about backward, backward to a better time! a more sane time. Let’s try giving it back to the Indians who could manage it! Indians were full of corporate cliches and excuses.
Wanna vist the corporation that manages Las Vegas Water, the one that puppets Ms. Mulroy? Do a seacrh for Lake Las Vegas. Ask these questions, where does the water come from to keep it filled? Who pays for it? Why are we steeling water from our neighbors to the North, South, East, and West when we have such abuses? Why is GM Pat Mulroy not doing anything about this waste and abuse? You will just be scratching the surface . . . .
Check out this website and you can see the problem.
The 300 acres of Lake Las Vegas loses 2100 acre feet of water every year. That is just over 684 million gallons per year of treated water that tax payers pay the bill for so the people who live there don’t have to live in the desert. The water used to maintain the level of this Fake Lake is treated water via The City of Henderson via SNWS/SNWA lake mead water – pumped and treated for the elite so they don’t have to suffer that nasty “Desert feeling” like the common people do.
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