Clean drinking water will become an expensive commodity in the Future.

[52ndStreet]

I predict that clean drinking water will become an expensive commodity in the future.
We are already seeing the effects of major droughts throughout the world.
Africa has been in need of clean drinking water for the last forty years now. The situation will
only continue to get worse as we progress into the future.

Clean drinking water will become an expensive commodity in the future.
We already see that the bottled water industry has become a billion dollar a year
industry in America and the world. This will become magnified one hundred fold as we
progress into the future.

What must America do now. America must plan to become a major exporter of clean drinking
water to the world. We have the technology to convert seawater into clean drinking water.
Reverse osmosis. We must capitalize on this technology now, in this present time, in order to get an edge on the rest of the world.

 

[PredFan]

That's fine with me, I know how to purify just about any water.

 

[52ndStreet]

We should all be prepared for monthly water bills soon.!

 

[flacaltenn]

We can produce clean water from unclean water. Just a matter of a specification for "how clean" and money.. Desalinization powered with wind/solar would be an ideal business to get into in California right now.. It's one situation where the flaky performance of wind/solar can still "on average" produce a lot of product..

 

[Moonglow]

You can also generate electricity by the waves in the ocean...

 

[Moonglow]

I have my own well, so I will not run out of water anytime soon...since the area where I live has a huge underground aquifer. I live in an area of caves and a spring fed river. Man it is cold....

 

[Stephanie]

how much of our countries is covered by WATER?

they can already desalinate ocean water

 

[Crick]

The US does not have a monopoly on reverse osmosis.

You are not going to satisfy drinking water needs with plastic bottles of RO water. It will require the installation of water plants of varying sort in locations where they are needed. And the US has no monopoly or even technological lead on such systems.

Clean drinking water is in short supply now and, worldwide, it is getting worse. There are a number of groups working to improve the situation, but they have not yet gotten the lead on the problem. The cause till now has been poverty and overpopulation. Adding to that in the future will be global warming impacts on existing supplies: changes in rainfall patterns, glaciers melting, groundwater intrusion from rising saltwater and simply increased evaporation from increased temperatures.

So, yes, drinking water is going to get expensive. But, no, the US need not prepare to be a water exporter. The US needs to work harder at reducing the carbon emissions of its own power and transportation infrastructure and convince the rest of the world to do the same. Simultaneously, there is nothing wrong with working on improving everyone's access to clean drinking water by more mundane (and immediate) means.

 

[Stephanie]

The US does not have a monopoly on reverse osmosis.

You are not going to satisfy drinking water needs with plastic bottles of RO water. It will require the installation of water plants of varying sort in locations where they are needed. And the US has no monopoly or even technological lead on such systems.

Clean drinking water is in short supply now and, worldwide, it is getting worse. There are a number of groups working to improve the situation, but they have not yet gotten the lead on the problem. The cause till now has been poverty and overpopulation. Adding to that in the future will be global warming impacts on existing supplies: changes in rainfall patterns, glaciers melting, groundwater intrusion from rising saltwater and simply increased evaporation from increased temperatures.

So, yes, drinking water is going to get expensive. But, no, the US need not prepare to be a water exporter. The US needs to work harder at reducing the carbon emissions of its own power and transportation infrastructure and convince the rest of the world to do the same. Simultaneously, there is nothing wrong with working on improving everyone's access to clean drinking water by more mundane (and immediate) means.

oh ok, so we need to work harder and pay more of OUR monies to reduce carbon emissions, while countries like Brazil, China, North Korea, Africa, etc, just keeps on a pumping their pollutions on us...but you see folks, it's YOU who need's to be punished for them because you have a better standard living than they do.... so they need to make our cost of living more expensive and drive our standard of living down all at the same
seems like something really wrong with that picture, eh
he crick, will America becoming a third world country satisfy you and all your fascist buddies in the "globull warming" cult?

 

[mamooth]

oh ok, so we need to work harder and pay more of OUR monies to reduce carbon emissions, while countries like Brazil, China, North Korea, Africa, etc, just keeps on a pumping their pollutions on us...

No, we get them to sign on as well. As is happening. It's called "leadership".

That's basic logic, hence most deniers will be utterly mystified by it. Steph has a gibbering loony conspiracy theory, and she won't let logic interfere with it.

 

[Iceweasel]

The US does not have a monopoly on reverse osmosis.

You are not going to satisfy drinking water needs with plastic bottles of RO water. It will require the installation of water plants of varying sort in locations where they are needed. And the US has no monopoly or even technological lead on such systems.

Clean drinking water is in short supply now and, worldwide, it is getting worse. There are a number of groups working to improve the situation, but they have not yet gotten the lead on the problem. The cause till now has been poverty and overpopulation. Adding to that in the future will be global warming impacts on existing supplies: changes in rainfall patterns, glaciers melting, groundwater intrusion from rising saltwater and simply increased evaporation from increased temperatures.

So, yes, drinking water is going to get expensive. But, no, the US need not prepare to be a water exporter. The US needs to work harder at reducing the carbon emissions of its own power and transportation infrastructure and convince the rest of the world to do the same. Simultaneously, there is nothing wrong with working on improving everyone's access to clean drinking water by more mundane (and immediate) means.

If we stupidly keep giving liberals power over our lives then yes, everything will go up in price. Even air properly vented through our CO2 emission collection masks.

 

[Crick]

The US does not have a monopoly on reverse osmosis.

You are not going to satisfy drinking water needs with plastic bottles of RO water. It will require the installation of water plants of varying sort in locations where they are needed. And the US has no monopoly or even technological lead on such systems.

Clean drinking water is in short supply now and, worldwide, it is getting worse. There are a number of groups working to improve the situation, but they have not yet gotten the lead on the problem. The cause till now has been poverty and overpopulation. Adding to that in the future will be global warming impacts on existing supplies: changes in rainfall patterns, glaciers melting, groundwater intrusion from rising saltwater and simply increased evaporation from increased temperatures.

So, yes, drinking water is going to get expensive. But, no, the US need not prepare to be a water exporter. The US needs to work harder at reducing the carbon emissions of its own power and transportation infrastructure and convince the rest of the world to do the same. Simultaneously, there is nothing wrong with working on improving everyone's access to clean drinking water by more mundane (and immediate) means.

oh ok, so we need to work harder and pay more of OUR monies to reduce carbon emissions, while countries like Brazil, China, North Korea, Africa, etc, just keeps on a pumping their pollutions on us...but you see folks, it's YOU who need's to be punished for them because you have a better standard living than they do.... so they need to make our cost of living more expensive and drive our standard of living down all at the same
seems like something really wrong with that picture, eh
he crick, will America becoming a third world country satisfy you and all your fascist buddies in the "globull warming" cult?

What's needed is to act slightly more mature than a spoiled 12 year old.

 

[flacaltenn]

The US does not have a monopoly on reverse osmosis.

You are not going to satisfy drinking water needs with plastic bottles of RO water. It will require the installation of water plants of varying sort in locations where they are needed. And the US has no monopoly or even technological lead on such systems.

Clean drinking water is in short supply now and, worldwide, it is getting worse. There are a number of groups working to improve the situation, but they have not yet gotten the lead on the problem. The cause till now has been poverty and overpopulation. Adding to that in the future will be global warming impacts on existing supplies: changes in rainfall patterns, glaciers melting, groundwater intrusion from rising saltwater and simply increased evaporation from increased temperatures.

So, yes, drinking water is going to get expensive. But, no, the US need not prepare to be a water exporter. The US needs to work harder at reducing the carbon emissions of its own power and transportation infrastructure and convince the rest of the world to do the same. Simultaneously, there is nothing wrong with working on improving everyone's access to clean drinking water by more mundane (and immediate) means.

oh ok, so we need to work harder and pay more of OUR monies to reduce carbon emissions, while countries like Brazil, China, North Korea, Africa, etc, just keeps on a pumping their pollutions on us...but you see folks, it's YOU who need's to be punished for them because you have a better standard living than they do.... so they need to make our cost of living more expensive and drive our standard of living down all at the same
seems like something really wrong with that picture, eh
he crick, will America becoming a third world country satisfy you and all your fascist buddies in the "globull warming" cult?

What's needed is to act slightly more mature than a spoiled 12 year old.

or better yet, quit making the juvenile assumption that EVERY enviro issue comes back to Global Warming. Now thats a spoiled hissy fit for sure.

 

[Crick]

The only environmental cause noted in the lead post for the predicted shortage of drinking water is increased incidence of drought. You don't think that justifies the assumption that global warming is assumed to be involved? Do you have some other cause for the world's increasing incidence of drought? Let me guess, falling TSI.

 

[Stephanie]

The US does not have a monopoly on reverse osmosis.

You are not going to satisfy drinking water needs with plastic bottles of RO water. It will require the installation of water plants of varying sort in locations where they are needed. And the US has no monopoly or even technological lead on such systems.

Clean drinking water is in short supply now and, worldwide, it is getting worse. There are a number of groups working to improve the situation, but they have not yet gotten the lead on the problem. The cause till now has been poverty and overpopulation. Adding to that in the future will be global warming impacts on existing supplies: changes in rainfall patterns, glaciers melting, groundwater intrusion from rising saltwater and simply increased evaporation from increased temperatures.

So, yes, drinking water is going to get expensive. But, no, the US need not prepare to be a water exporter. The US needs to work harder at reducing the carbon emissions of its own power and transportation infrastructure and convince the rest of the world to do the same. Simultaneously, there is nothing wrong with working on improving everyone's access to clean drinking water by more mundane (and immediate) means.

oh ok, so we need to work harder and pay more of OUR monies to reduce carbon emissions, while countries like Brazil, China, North Korea, Africa, etc, just keeps on a pumping their pollutions on us...but you see folks, it's YOU who need's to be punished for them because you have a better standard living than they do.... so they need to make our cost of living more expensive and drive our standard of living down all at the same
seems like something really wrong with that picture, eh
he crick, will America becoming a third world country satisfy you and all your fascist buddies in the "globull warming" cult?

What's needed is to act slightly more mature than a spoiled 12 year old.

Well, you can act a snob and believe we should all fall in a line because of people like you and all those politicians in your cult.
But a lot of us don't fall for voodoo science for one, and for two, I refuse to stand by while you and your cult dictate to US on how we should live and rob us of more of our monies to with ALL these fantasies you all dreamed up...AND you and these politicians who pushing this (globull warming, it wasn't warming enough you charlatans came up with a new name, CLIMATE CHANGE) must have an investment in all this and plan to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ off it all...and care about the people and the planet, well that's second in line for all of you .....now was that 12 years old enough for, fascist snob

 

[Crick]

What's needed is to act slightly more mature than a spoiled 12 year old.

Well, you can act a snob and believe we should all fall in a line because of people like you and all those politicians in your cult.

No, we should act like mature, responsible adults because that's what is needed here; not acting like snotty pre-teens perfectly willing to cut their noses off to spite their faces.

Whether anyone else does ANYTHING, the US should cut its carbon emissions and those cuts will help. Doing so does nothing but HELP us convince the other nations of the world to do the same. NOT doing so, will NOT.

But a lot of us don't fall for voodoo science for one

That is quite demonstrably incorrect Madam.

I refuse to stand by while you and your cult dictate to US on how we should live and rob us of more of our monies to with ALL these fantasies you all dreamed up...AND you and these politicians who pushing this (globull warming, it wasn't warming enough you charlatans came up with a new name, CLIMATE CHANGE) must have an investment in all this and plan to make $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ off it all...and care about the people and the planet, well that's second in line for all of you .....now was that 12 years old enough for, fascist snob

It is not anyone that dictates to you what must be done to avoid this long slow calamity - it is physics and the laws of nature.

And yes, that was very 12-years-old.

 

[Zander]

We all gonna die!!! And we'll be hot!! and thirsty!!

 

[Crick]

Why do you waste everyone's time with such posts? Do you really think the "entertainment value" makes up for their utter vacuity?

 

[Zander]

Why do you waste everyone's time with such posts? Do you really think the "entertainment value" makes up for their utter vacuity?

tissue?

 

[mamooth]

Go easy on Zander. His cult has given him a stupid-quota to meet, a requirement to say 10 stupid things in public each day. You don't want him to get in trouble with his cult, do you?