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Colorado River water mismanaged anyway
Agreements and treaties were poorly written in the first place.
Should have started with the total flow volume at the mouth of the river and set the withdrawls 33% U.S., 33% Mexico, 34% allowed to naturally exit the mouth. 34% of normal flow probably wouldn't provide full sustainability of the natural riparian environment, but it would have been better than nothing.
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Save water by increasing CO2 in the air
Plants will get the CO2 they need for photosynthesis. Keep the concentration small, and the pores that let CO2 in get larger. That means more water vapor escapes.
But as the CO2 concentration goes up the pores get smaller, and less water is used.
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RE: Ensuring that there's water, water everywhere
Hi I am a normal person of our world and have been saying for the last
twenty years or more"where is all our free water going to?".I am now
retired and have time on my hand to think about things Like
water,question why can rain be saved and stored with all our means at
hand surely the world could do it.Forget we are different countries it
is our worlds water which has to be saved some way or we will all
died!!!.
Regards
WATER MO
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It's a simple cost/benefit relationship
A good test case is the going on right now. The cost of water is going up radically in Southern California, people will be tearing up lawns, replacing old toilets, taking short showers, etc.
It is true in other parts of the globe as well.
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RE: Ensuring that there's water, water everywhere
in the late 1940s, when nuclear plants were being suggested as an answer to our power needs, one of the parts of the plants was to be the production of potable water by using the waste heat generated in the plant. however, because there did not appear to be a supply problem then, though there was, to decrease the cost the water purification part was left out. now that we have again a power problem rearing up, we could help solve two problems by building the nuclear plants and by using the waste heat to provide potable water. there are the numerous plants in japan and france to show that these plants can be built and operated safely. we do have large amounts of nonpotable water around and we could make a great headway to solving the water supply problem.
we will not do it of course because we live in a country where the ruling opinion is mass hysteria. maybe this will undergo a bit of a change when both food is not grown because there is no water to irrigate and when there is a limit on the amount of water one can drink. starvation and thirst are wonderful teachers
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RE: Ensuring that there's water, water everywhere
QUIT LIVING IN THE DESERT.. dumb$ss
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RE: Colorado River water mismanaged anyway
Wrong river. The Colorado River in Texas is contained entirely within the state. No need to give any to Mexido.
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RE: Ensuring that there's water, water everywhere
Didn't that battle start a few decades ago? Isn't it at full rage now
such as the opposition to coal companies wanting to block off streams
and small rivers at present.
Or are you referring to the growing awareness of how super critical it
is to keep our water clean.
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CO2, Energy usage and sources, potable water... all related
Don't care where you live... these issues will affect your life.
so what happens when:
- Thousands die daily from these issues (bad water, pollution)?
- all evidence points to these issues becoming "un-fixable" within the near term?
- the peoples of the world are overwhelmed with these issues?
- people believe technology will save them..(without any plan)?
(poof! magically, some technology will be sooo powerful it doesn't need any plan of implementation! it will cost nothing and do everything!)
- The world has no unified view of what's required?
look around...
you have your answer.
Before any technology or plan of action on the scale of world-wide pollution/resource management can be successful..
It needs unified support...or else it is doomed to failure.
failure from ..
- fighting over control of the solution
- fighting over distribution of solution
- fighting over any success of the solution!
If a unified solution is ever put in place..
It will not be done with the tools of present or past.
Meaning political, monetary incentives..
The world has to make some very big changes.
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RE: Ensuring that there's water, water everywhere
Something like a billion people do not have access to safe and clean drinking water....a billion and half do not enjoy sanitary sewers or waste treatment.
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RE: Ensuring that there's water, water everywhere
Thanks for spreading the word about our Summit on the Summit
program! Admittedly, the social media part is tricky to handle as
it's a new medium for brands to advocate for causes. But check
out our Twitter feed (@SOTSK) as well. Also, two of our
supporters are starting fundraisers at their schools (SUNY and
Georgia U.) you can check them out too: @d33pthoughts and
@dofoxymorrons.
This is a complicated, intense global issue that requires
solutions from many different angles. Check out our
beneficiaries page on the website, four different groups with
four different ways to tackle the problem:
http://www.summitonthesummit.com/#/basecamp
And cheers to IBM for lending their smarts for the cause!
nien for Summit on the Summit
Twitter: @SOTSK
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Desalinization would avoid some of the pain of the water problems.
Desalinization would avoid some of the pain of the water problems.
Water shortages, aggravated by inaction to avert them, are expected
to generate lots of emotional energy, to fill the coffer$ of the
prescient.
We already know that our elected leaders are not perfect, many
are lawyers; that left the Justice System, and are now struggling
to make ends meet, on their own recognizance. They were once
trained to use the law, to their clients? advantage.
Who are the clients of many of our leader's now?
Would they be the people that paid, to get them elected?
(Bought them, their distinguished jobs.)
The only people that are allowed to win, an election, are
politicians, because it?s the LAW. [Write-Ins, may be a loop hole,
some places.]
Bureaucrats, appointed by politicians, use taxpayer funds to run
the elections. I think most politicians believe that a politician,
Red or Blue, will always win in any large election. Is it possible
politicians might also suspect that the electorate is chicken,
stupid, or both?
If we were smart as lawyers, we would have changed things around
to our advantage; so that by now, The Pawns of Power, would not be
allowed to get themselves elected; AGAIN !
I avoid additional disappointment, I expect politicians to do
nothing, positive, for US. We must continue to depend on
ourselves, as is usual.
Humans will learn to desalinate seawater, more efficiently, to
make up for some of the continuing losses to the snow pack, and
glaciers.
Why don?t we get started on that now?
Well, are the people we depend on for leadership obligated, to
those that pay to get them elected?
The Powerful, will always retain control; of the water. It is a
precious and limited resource, that can be sold for an even
higher price, as the supply diminishes.
Recall; gasoline at USD $ 4.599 per gallon? Think of it! Water at
USD $ 4.599 per gallon.
WOW!
Oh, $h&t!
It already is that much. . . when bottled; in a PREMIUM LABEL !
Water shortages, aggravated by inaction to avert them, are
expected to generate lots of profits, to fill the coffers of the
prescient.
Desalinization would avoid some of the pain of the coming water
shortages, so we can be sure desalinization will not be allowed.
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Re:Save water by increasing CO2 in the air
Citation please, for this claim. Stomata for a particular species do not get larger or smaller, although they may become slightly more dense or less dense on the leaf surface because of growing conditions. Any change in stomatal density would have a limited effect on transpiration rate, when water is freely available to the plant, as the evaporation domes over adjacent stomata overlap and the leaf surface evaporates as fast as a free water surface. Basic plant physiology 201.
Dr. Arthur R. Berg
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RE: Ensuring that there's water, water everywhere
Climate change, water, etc are supposed to go hand in hand with
overall sustainability. We are supposed to blend in with the
greenhouse called Earth that sustains all life and the reason we
don't want to heat the atmosphere is because it changes the weather
formula.
The dangerous part of this is that policy and science is blind to
temperature in education of the world. The company I work for
documented the cause of urban heat islands and we are superheating
the atmosphere, affecting hydrological cycles while we discuss the
urgency of water management.
Here is a link to urban heat island creation showing how we cook the
air and change weather as well as how it can be addressed which will
positively affect water. If we don't stop the heat, we will be
rationing based on symptoms. http://www.thermoguy.com/urbanheat.html
