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Thirsty Planet

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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  • 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?
  • "1.1 billion people lack clean water worldwide, which direction do you want them to head????"
    ...as a learned friend of mine stated...forward.
  • Grandpa Larlee
    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????
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