Poll of the Day > America is running out of Water!

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Lol

Why don't we just get more from the moon

Steal it from io.

Just borrow some from Flint.

Just melt the polar icecaps, problem solved.

All of America? I thought it was just California

I live minutes from one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world - so I'm not really concerned about water.

aHappySacka posted...

Just borrow some from Flint.

That's part of America.

Muscles posted...

All of America? I thought it was just California

This, pretty much. Although far-lefties think California represents all of America. In reality, it's maybe 10%.

who thinks that

i think you think that

The_Viscount posted...

This, pretty much. Although far-lefties think California represents all of America. In reality, it's maybe 10%.

TIL Zeus thinks Texas, Kansas and Michigan (among other areas) are part of California.

I live in Idaho and it's pretty well-known that the aquifers the region I live in depends on are going to run out of water soon-ish. Not very high quality water, but it's what we've got. There's also the matter of us running out of topsoil. Gonna be a disaster.

The_Viscount posted...

That's part of America.

This, pretty much. Although far-lefties think California represents all of America. In reality, it's maybe 10%.

By population, California has 12% of the US population.

By area California is 5.5% of the contiguous US.

Please tell me more about the current moral panic.

Chances are they'll just coerce Canada into letting Nestle raid their vast freshwater supply for pennies, making Nestle billions while "solving" the water issue in the US.

cant we take the water from the sea then convert to drinkable water

accord posted...

cant we take the water from the sea then convert to drinkable water

Desalination is extremely expensive.

Water? I thought we get that from China? They got those chemical factories and everything.

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It's a power consumption issue. You're trading a scarce resource for another one.

Zangulus posted...

Ah yes. Water being gatekept behind money. Literally one of the basic tenants of life itself and gotta throw that finance issue out there like its an actual argument.

Every aspect of life has to be laboured for, money is a representation of labour owed. Absolutely everything in reality is a matter of finance, you don't get to ignore it because it's inconvenient.

If you know where you want to pull that money from then you need a plan and proof of how it's a better use than where you want to take it from. It's easy to handwave at problems, actually doing it is a completely different problem.

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Even if we were to live in a money-less society it's still a very expensive thing to do in terms of sheer volume of resources.

The faucets are still working here.

Are we getting less rain? You bet.

My coworker did mention something interesting about the drought though. The media would not mention that back then about 30-40 years ago.. we didn't have millions and millions of people compared to today.

Think of all the water consumption by everyone and that's why we are in a drought. We're over populated.

GRTooCool posted...

Are we getting less rain? You bet.

My coworker did mention something interesting about the drought though. The media would not mention that back then about 30-40 years ago.. we didn't have millions and millions of people compared to today.

Think of all the water consumption by everyone and that's why we are in a drought. We're over populated.

That's neat.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/4/6/AAQwHjAADMQm.jpg

America is also running out of:

Farmable soil
Furtilizer
Rocks (well, boulder sized rocks... the current supply is almost entire sand/pebbles now)
Cobalt (Ironically, Canada has killed more Americans with Cobalt exports than the war of 1812)
Lithium

Lokarin posted...

America is also running out of:

Farmable soil
Furtilizer
Rocks (well, boulder sized rocks... the current supply is almost entire sand/pebbles now)
Cobalt (Ironically, Canada has killed more Americans with Cobalt exports than the war of 1812)
Lithium

They just need to tap into Congress and they'll have more than enough Fertilizer.

Lokarin posted...

America is also running out of:

Farmable soil
Furtilizer
Rocks (well, boulder sized rocks... the current supply is almost entire sand/pebbles now)
Cobalt (Ironically, Canada has killed more Americans with Cobalt exports than the war of 1812)
Lithium

Nah we have plenty of cats and dogs.

Lokarin posted...

America is also running out of:
Furtilizer

Fertilizer is going to be a major issue next year in the US because two of the biggest exporters of fertilizer were Ukraine and Russia. Now the US doesn't import fertilizer from either of these countries but other nations do, and it won't affect the current crop in North America since most farmers have already obtained their stocks for the year. But it is going to have a major impact later in the year when spring arrives in the southern hemisphere, and that will put pressure on the fertilizer supplies for North America next year.

Fun Fact: Most farmers in the US use ammonia as fertilizer. This requires an enormous amount of energy to produce. Ammonia production uses between 1 and 2% of global energy consumption, accounts for 3% of carbon emissions, and uses 3 to 5% of natural gas production. In the US, 88% of ammonia is used as fertilizer.

Lake Mead 25ft away from shutting off taps to Arizona, 100 ft away from shutting power off to South West America

Lake Powell to shut off flow to lake mead

LoL

St_Kevin posted...

Lake Mead 25ft away from shutting off taps to Arizona, 100 ft away from shutting power off to South West America

Lake Powell to shut off flow to lake mead

LoL

Some guy on Gamefaqs is the best source of information.

That's me!

Judgmenl posted...

Please tell me more about the current moral panic.

You in the wrong thread, anime avatar, or just dumb?

accord posted...

cant we take the water from the sea then convert to drinkable water

its takes a lot of time and resources to do it large-scale and its challenging to dispose of the excess salt because it isnt safe for human consumption and its toxic to wildlife environments because its a holy fuckton of salt.

VampireCoyote posted...

it isnt safe for human consumption

Incorrect. Very incorrect.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Incorrect. Very incorrect.

you're free to head to your nearest desalination and find out for yourself

*laughs in michigander*

SunWuKung420 posted...

Incorrect. Very incorrect.

@SunWuKung420

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KZxjEYk01HEdmDhsLmF4RzV5UXu-mwBd/view

for every 1 gallon of fresh water that desalination produces, 1.41 gallons of toxic brine are created. More than 50 billion cubic meters (or more than 13.2 trillion gallons) of toxic brine are generated in this way each year, enough to cover the state of Florida with a layer of salty slurry.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Incorrect. Very incorrect.

Go and drink it then. Please. Please go and drink it. For god's sake, go and drink it all.

*Wasting water in Swedish*

VampireCoyote posted...

@SunWuKung420

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KZxjEYk01HEdmDhsLmF4RzV5UXu-mwBd/view

for every 1 gallon of fresh water that desalination produces, 1.41 gallons of toxic brine are created. More than 50 billion cubic meters (or more than 13.2 trillion gallons) of toxic brine are generated in this way each year, enough to cover the state of Florida with a layer of salty slurry.

Yea, not clicking a Google drive link.

Many pounds of sea salt are produced and consumed every year. Salt is one of the first coveted resources. If it's toxic, it's because of human polution.

Zareth posted...

Go and drink it then. Please. Please go and drink it. For god's sake, go and drink it all.

With the proper still, drinking desalinated water is perfecting safe and you can use the salt to season food. But drinking salty water is never recommended.