Members TampaYankee Posted October 31, 2010 Members Share Posted October 31, 2010 Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out Of Water Posted: October 29, 2010 at 3:29 pm 10. Orlando, FL 9. Atlanta, GA 8. Tucson, AZ 7. Las Vegas, NV 6. Fort Worth, TX 5. San Fransisco Bay Area, CA 4. San Antonio, Texas 3. Phoenix, AZ 2. Houston, TX 1. Los Angeles, CA Read the full atory at : The Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out Of Water - 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/2010/10/29/the-ten-great-american-cities-that-are-dying-of-thirst/2/#ixzz13ySdo6R2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RA1 Posted October 31, 2010 Members Share Posted October 31, 2010 At least 5 of those cities NEVER had very much water except other people's water. Now that is running out or being "kept" by those who had it first. Just another example of too many people, not enough resources, not enough planning and little to no concern for "tomorrow". Of course, there is plenty of water on this planet BUT it will get more and more expensive to have access to it. Years ago oil was regarded by some as a too cheap commodity and at various times food, money and now, perhaps last but certainly now least, water. Best regards, KMEM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CharliePS Posted November 1, 2010 Share Posted November 1, 2010 Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out Of Water Posted: October 29, 2010 at 3:29 pm 10. Orlando, FL 9. Atlanta, GA 8. Tucson, AZ 7. Las Vegas, NV 6. Fort Worth, TX 5. San Fransisco Bay Area, CA 4. San Antonio, Texas 3. Phoenix, AZ 2. Houston, TX 1. Los Angeles, CA Read the full atory at : The Ten Biggest American Cities That Are Running Out Of Water - 24/7 Wall St. http://247wallst.com/2010/10/29/the-ten-great-american-cities-that-are-dying-of-thirst/2/#ixzz13ySdo6R2 You will notice that, except for San Francisco, every one of these cities is in the South or the Southwest. Perhaps it's time for a new migration from the Sunbelt back to the North, upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest. Maybe that other list you published about good places to live, like Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Detroit, was part of a sneaky campaign to get us to leave enough water for those of us who don't want to leave the desert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TampaYankee Posted November 1, 2010 Author Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 Maybe that other list you published about good places to live, like Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Detroit, was part of a sneaky campaign to get us to leave enough water for those of us who don't want to leave the desert. The desert communities are literally on life-support -- have been from day one. Their life is limited, I suspect, without the advent of massive desalinization plants and water pipelines. Water will be priced like oil more than like water, but maybe not in our lifetime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RA1 Posted November 1, 2010 Members Share Posted November 1, 2010 At least 5 of those cities NEVER had very much water except other people's water. Now that is running out or being "kept" by those who had it first. Just another example of too many people, not enough resources, not enough planning and little to no concern for "tomorrow". Of course, there is plenty of water on this planet BUT it will get more and more expensive to have access to it. Years ago oil was regarded by some as a too cheap commodity and at various times food, money and now, perhaps last but certainly now least, water. Best regards, KMEM I must have had one or two of those VO's + DC when I wrote this. Not only did I write "now" when I meant "not" but also signed as my alter ego from another site. Of course, anyone who reads both sites already knew that and more than one poster on this site has mentioned it before. Not a secret. Best regards, RA1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 one or two of those VO's + DC LOL. There's our solution (sorry!) to the water shortage. W.C. Fields: "Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew, and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamSmith Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 The desert communities are literally on life-support -- have been from day one. Their life is limited, I suspect, without the advent of massive desalinization plants and water pipelines. Water will be priced like oil more than like water, but maybe not in our lifetime. Corporations that depend on water have been worrying about this for more than a decade already. For instance DuPont and others that use water as a primary industrial solvent have been investing fairly heavily in developing alternatives, such as ionic salts that remain liquid at near-room-temperatures. As you say, cost-effective mass-scale desalination, together with new continent-scale distribution networks, looks like the only long-term answer. Yet another consequence of there being two or three times too many H. sapiens for the planet's resources. Or, toggling the other switch, too many of us living too high on the hog. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
