Can anyone tell me ....
How 'conserving' water in a wet climate with more than sufficient rainfall to supply the aquifers helps somebody thousands of miles away, on another continent? Is not usable water in a system of recycling, rain to ground to use to ground to rain, etc.?
Gobal solutions to local (even if wide spread) problems does not seem like the wise solution.
Take the wondrous 'Ethanol' initiatives that required a large percent of our food to be diverted for fuel. The price of grain and thus most other foods was driven up, causing shortages. The quality of ethanol-fuel, and therfore the mileage driven with that ethanol-fuel was reduced. This results in requring more ethanol-fuel to drive the same distance as a lesser amount of non-ethanol-fuel. The result is higher food costs and less food, higher fuel costs and lower fuel economy and higher air pollution due to the increase in ethanol-fuels being burned.
