Water shortage 'a global problem' (BBC)

[Eugene]

Last Updated: Wednesday, 16 August 2006, 00:35 GMT 01:35 UK

Water shortage 'a global problem'
By Imogen Foulkes
BBC News, Geneva

Rich countries face increasing water shortages, a report
by conservation organisation WWF warns.

A combination of climate change and poor resource management
is leading to water shortages in even the most developed countries,
it says.

It urges water conservation on a global scale and asks rich states
to set an example by repairing ageing water infrastructure and
tackling pollution.

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Knock-on effect

What is more, the report argues, wealthy countries continue to use up
the water of the developing world.

The production of clothing, fruit, vegetables and even jewellery all
need water. And the demand for cheap produce often encourages wasteful
use of scarce water resources.

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Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4796909.stm

[opihimoimoi]

1. The Republicans ignore this important issue: They wait for the RAPTURE

Pitiful and EVIL Thinking

[izzie]

2. This has been a thing with me for years. I am not crazy

and it is on its way. Wait to big business gets into this. Course raising rice in the Calif. desert has always been crazy but why bother to say that. Watch what your town and city are doing with the local water works.

[Ezlivin]

4. Look at how we waste water here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area

It's absolutely shocking to look at the figures for per capita water use.

Remember, these figures are per person, per day. One person!

REGIONAL WATER USE

Figures are gallons used per person per day in 2003, the latest figures available.

WATER GUZZLERS

Rhome 386
Westover Hills 379
Haslet 348
Venus 339
Lakeside 326
Southlake 252
Trophy Club 244
Dalworthington Gardens 242
Pantego 238
Grapevine 231
Colleyville 214
Benbrook 202

THE CITIES
Arlington 173
Dallas 238
Fort Worth 177
Irving 212
Plano 225

REGIONAL GOAL
140

All taken from: http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/columnists/bud_kennedy/15081133.htm

[izzie]

5. Well the reason people moved to Az. are long gone.

People had to have green places to play and grass in their front yards. It is all sort of silly but then I saved water in water barrels for my garden for years and my kids said I was nuts as I am about what will happen to water every place. You can count on big business buying up all the water rights it can because it is going to be sold back to the people. I can see it coming. Buy the way what are those people doing with all that water in Tx.?

[Ezlivin]

8. What people do with this water

We are in the middle of a drought, yet many, if not most cities around here have not enacted mandatory water restrictions. Water restrictions are voluntary and in the land of SUVs, a solid Republican majority and a church on every corner that means never having to say "I've used enough."

They are filling their swimming pools, watering the hell out of their non-native landscape and carpet-lawns, filling gigantic bathtubs and luxuriating under multiple shower heads in showers designed to deluge the user. Nearly all of this water runs to waste.

I know what people are putting in their houses because my wife is a partner in an interior design business. Most of her clients earn well, well into the six figures. One couple just spent $400,000 on a house (they moved 5 miles so their son could get into a better high-school wrestling program) and they are going to spend $300,000 to renovate it. The husband bought the wife a Hummer for her birthday.

Irony: Our lawn is dead because I'm a former submariner who had the precious nature of potable water drilled into his head. We drive used cars that are paid for and get at least 20 mpg. And we had Kerry signs in our front yard. Yeah, we're a bit out of the ordinary around these parts!

[izzie]

11. Oh I was married to a sub sailor. I do not think I got the water

thing from that. I think it came from being a child of parents of the depression and saving every thing was it. We were not even poor but what ever it was it rubbed off on me. My job as a kid was mowing the lawn. About an ac. and it was a push lawn mower. I am sure the points of an ac. or green grass came then. I usually had these plans where I got the local boys to come over and help me. It worked. A natural front yard looks so much nicer. Ground cover that self feeds, needs not be cut and can go with no watering is the thing. We had a garden pool and my father filled it with beach sand as he said better kids play in a sand box than look at water. We had the ocean next to the house to look at. I once had a swimming pool and it was unbearable how much water that thing took. The fire company came up and filled it and it took many trips. I frankly thought it was one of the silly things I did in life. Build a full size swimming pool.

[unpossibles]

7. it's even more if you look at other details such as food & manufacture

US livestock production uses millions of gallons of water daily, and manufacturing processes and crops add even more to it.

[Ezlivin]

9. Yes. And in this area the golf courses are sucking it up, too

I forgot to mention in my previous post that although we are in the middle of a drought, you couldn't tell it by driving past any golf course in the area.

[Delphinus]

3. Some postulate

this was another reason for Israel warring with Lebanon.

[RestoreGore]

6. This is effecting us all...

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-08-16T121108Z_01_SYD272763_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-WATER-AGENCY.xml&src=rss

We are wasting water like we are wasting oil and not thinking of the consequences.

We are not respecting the gifts we have been given.

We are making the wrong choices.

We are not thinking of the future...
Therefore, we are now at a point where just thinking about it isn't good enough.

It is time to do something about it.



http://water-is-life.blogspot.com

[NoFederales]

10. T. Boone Pickens on the evening news tonight: How about a billionaire

and others like him buying up the Nation's water rights? Is air to follow?

The sight of Pickens smirking face alight with the prospect of owning WATER is beyond creepy. Does anyone have a self-built solution for those wish to achieve water independence, plans, etc.; are websites that promote and assist with homeowner solutions to water systems?

NoFederales