Running Dry

When the Titanic hit the iceberg, the Captain was 100% sure the ship would NOT sink. I'd rather prepare for the worst, and that includes beginning a reduction in future demand. Start educating and rewarding people for birth control, and introduce mandatory water conservation in all municipal wand private water systems. If the experts have erred then we'll have extra water for more crops. Erring the other way is fatal.

nganung gipabayaan mana ninyo...... dapat unta naa pud mo'y mga steps para dili na mahitabo...
Kung magtinanga lang mo diha... maypag magpakamatay nalang mo kay padulong ra man gihapon mo
ana... yeah comments here are right.... "WATER IS THE SOURCE OF LIFE, SO TREASURE IT!!!!!!!!!

If you seriously examine the evidence in depth and with an open-mind, anthropogenic climate change is pseudo-science! Don't swallow all the hype perpetrated by the media and these so-called open-minded scientists. Beware of people's hidden agendas that compel people either to see what they want to see or to distort and invent evidence to achieve what they feel is the greater good. Question authority!!!

it not climate change its sucking water to send to california and az. to grow crops and water lawns in the desert

I have to laugh when people in ther gov't and scientists tell us this and try to offer solutions. Conservation won't work, "green technology" is a lie as well. The problem is simple -There are too many people on this earth. The U.S. needs a one child policy like China. If the environment is to be saved then we need to curtail our population by seriously restricting reproduction. That is the ONLY way we can work to reduce or reverse damage! No one wants to talkj about this but it is the only hope we have!! Humans are stupid and self-destructive and therefore deserve the consequences of their actions. The higher the population, the more water they need. Duh! Do the math!!

I agree that Lake Mead can run dry... but....please give us a percentage estimate as to the "population demand for H2O" and the "climate change" influence. I suspect that it's mostly population demand....but then again, I'm not an Al Gore clone, nor do I fly around in an executive jet making money on a "theory"...

Jeff

the planet may be 70% water but only a few percent of it is drinkable without major work to it (most of the planets water is saltwater) and changing that to drinkable water takes days and a whole lot of supplies (have you ever tasted the water along the coast)

Really, a 50 percent chance? Interesting...60 percent of the time Tim Barnett is right everytime.

Water is the source of life - treasure it! R3.
Water is the source of all life on earth. It touches every area of our lives. Without it, we could not thrive ??? we could not even survive.

Sustainability ??? ???We strive to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs???.
We should discourage wastefulness and misuse, and promote efficiency and conservation.
For the benefit of mankind, maintain the quality of life and preserve the peace and tranquility of world population. Water resources must be preserved - to sustain humanity. We must eliminate wasteful utilization of water, conserve our water sources and implement rigid conservation methods. We should utilize solar and or other source of renewable energy to operate desalinization projects from the oceans. Utilize renewable energy sources to purify and transport the water to its final destination. As world population increases the scarcity of water will become a cause for conflict, unless we take steps now to develop other sources of water for drinking, rainwater harvesting ??? storm-water and gray-water utilization. Designing of landscaping that uses minimal amount of water.
"With power shortages and a water scarcity a constant threat across the West, it's time to look at water and energy in a new way,"
To preserve the future generations sustainability, we should look into urban farming ??? vertical farming. The term "urban farming" may conjure up a community garden where locals grow a few heads of lettuce. But some academics envision something quite different for the increasingly hungry world of the 21st century: a vertical farm that will do for agriculture what the skyscraper did for office space. Greenhouse giant: By stacking floors full of produce, a vertical farm could rake in $18 million a year.
Yehud Draiman, Energy and water conservation consultant
Feb. 15, 2008
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Hydro dynamics: forget oil. Sharing freshwater equitably poses political conundrums as explosive and far-reaching as global climate change.
Quoted from other sources
Anyone who has ever stood on a beach and looked out into the vast expanse of an ocean knows that there is a lot of water on this planet. In fact, 70 percent of the Earth's surface is covered by water. It may seem like water is all around us, but safe, clean, reliable drinking water is not a cease¬less resource. The problems facing drinking water range from failing infrastructure, to climate change, to insufficient supplies.