Ever felt thirsty for water?

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ILLYRIAN

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They are in South Africa, the dams are going to run dry for Cape Town in April.

And just to stop you from feeling left out, many scientists are saying 2/3 rd's of the worlds population will have problems getting water in seven years.
 
We have problems with water in Aust too. The dude that trucks it to this town wont drink it. Bunno to Rocko is full of recycled meth. I am keeping an eye out for a rain water tank, I think my clouds come from Antartica.

Is it Norway thats is hogging all the good water?
 
OccaQuokka said:
We have problems with water in Aust too. The dude that trucks it to this town wont drink it. Bunno to Rocko is full of recycled meth. I am keeping an eye out for a rain water tank, I think my clouds come from Antartica.

Is it Norway thats is hogging all the good water?
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No, it's us Canadians with all the water. What is surprising is that Cairo hasn't gone dry yet and it is a much larger city than Capetown.
 
We are killing our planet, water first, then bees and air. Water wars will come too. One day (if the ice caps melt) we may be surrounded by water no one can drink.

Sometimes I don't like us humans much.
 
At present the main dam that provides water to Cape Town is at 13% capacity.

It isn't a case of if the ice caps melt start to melt, they already are.
Some islands have had to be evacuated and are now submerged. Have a look at how much of Florida is underwater as compared with a year ago.
Have a look at the area covered by ice north and south poles as compared to a year ago.
If water levels rise by half a meter when a high tide or a king tide occurs a lot of folk will be deluged by water as most country that are surrounded by water have a high population in coastal area's. And it isn't just the coastal plains that are under threat, as with Australia; the middle area (the size of Germany) is 50 foot below sea level.
 
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I meant - if the ice caps melt completely. Excellent points.
If you look at the amount of infrastructure we have at low altitude, the cost of sea level rise is enormous. Kennedy Airport serving New York City has runways at 12 foot altitude above sea level. About half of New Orleans is 50 feet below sea level as well. Most cities are coastal and a lot of them are going to be destroyed. World temperatures are returning to where they were a thousand years ago when Vikings settled Greenland and grew crops of rye. Only recently have people tried growing crops in Greenland and it is still marginally successful because it is too cold. People talk of global warming but this is just a return to normal after the Little Ice Age that went from 1300AD to 1850AD.

I am at 429 feet above sea level but society will fall long before the water level gets that high.
 
DeepBlueJoy said:
We are killing our planet, water first, then bees and air. Water wars will come too. One day (if the ice caps melt) we may be surrounded by water no one can drink.

Sometimes I don't like us humans much.
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Dont worry, the earth will always be here, us humans may not 😛 we are nothing but annoying ants on its face. We'll wipe ourselves out before turning this earth into useless space rocks.

I wonder how much of the ocean is nuclear contaminated now. We have desalination plants on the coast, converting ocean water to usable water. I dont know if they test for that kind of thing. The salt excess has not caused major problems yet, as far as I know. But it doesnt sound like the best solution for our fish.

People who can access the bores use them all day in the middle of summer. I approached my workplace over watering 8 acres of paddocks in the heat of the day and was told I was an idiot cos it all goes back into the ground 🙄 these people were dutch though and honestly I feel a lot of our water issues here are coming from migrants with no understanding of the heat or respect for droughts. Its damn selfish to have 40 minute showers and to water the garden daily. But they dont give a crap cos increasing water rates really have little affect on their income or way of life.

Wasnt there huge construction on the nile recently? Maybe thats why Cairo is ok.

Places near the ice caps have huge potential to sell off their water. Aussies have been looking into how to transport water since I was in high school. We have a huge river up north that could help the south out, if their is a global crisis, but transport is the issue.


It always make me sad that Mr C Y O'Connor killed himself after public shaming. His work in bringing water to the remote goldfields brought this state a lot of money. It offered water to create a town. It really really sucks that new ideas and the people behind them are mocked to that point. Nothing has changed in human behaviour since his time.
 
World temperatures are returning to where they were a thousand years ago? People
talk of global warming but this is just a return to normal after the last ice age. But
the worlds temperatures are likely to go up and down, that is normal the thing is
why are they doing so now?
Is it normal or is it because mankind is affecting the weather patterns?
This topic has been debated many times on these boards to no avail, either way.
 
A lot of attention is given to the carbon dioxide generated by burning fossil fuels but theoretically, we should be in for massive floods because for every molecule of octane burned, we get eight molecules of carbon dioxide and nine molecules of water. The carbon dioxide is depleted by plants but the water remains. Maybe the small temperature rise reduces the humidity enough to consume all the newly generated water.

When the Aral Sea in Khazakhstan (which was once the largest freshwater lake in the world) finally dried up, there was a very serious danger: Vozrozhdeniye Island (meaning Renaissance or Rebirth Island) was now reachable by road. Why was that a danger? Most of the Soviet development and testing of biological weapons took place there. Oops. A lot of people in the area had been sickened and died by a combination of nuclear testing and biological testing, particularly when the winds shifted and a lot of Uzbeks were exposed. If you saw "Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind", one of the opening scenes is of a cargo ship in a desert. That wasn't put there by aliens, that was one of many ships that got caught in the Aral Sea when it dried up. The Soviets tried to dredge a canal to open water but they were too late and a lot of ships got caught.

I expect the North American prairies to be under a lot of stress in the coming decade. The dust bowl conditions of the 1930's are due to return and possibly stay. Food as well as water is at risk.
 
Hey, I have a related question -

Can fruits be used to supplement water in the human diet in places that directly drinkable water is short? I ask because the run off from roasted zucchini with honey and mint is DIVINE. I was reminded of the pigface plants providing fresh water to the early settlers and river side aboriginals when they had none. I have not drank a whole lot of bottled water as this has been sufficient today (plus a cup of cocoa, something about that goes amazing with zucchini!). This would also include trace amounts of minerals. Could plain river water, washing water or dirty well water be used on plants that have a high water content in the fruit? To what extent do the plants filter "bad" water? What pollutants needs to be avoided for this sort of idea? What plants could work best? Obviously things like cucumber and zucchini produce a high water content in small spaces, what else is in the same family?
 
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