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- we seriously need to reduce our water consumption for the sake of all our posterity, especially when so many industries are literally dumping potable water away and draining our aquifers that lead to severe desertification. In fact, Nevada and Las Vegas are just the beginning of an atrophy on our lands..why are golf courses still spilling gallons of water away when there is a water shortage elsewhere in the country?
The answer: technology has led us to such problems, and the only way we can do this is to use technology to get us out. We can't force mankind to lower our decadence, we can only form new innovations that can lower our water usage or increase water reusability. Reverse Osmosis is a great water reclaimation method that is widely used in other countries, but problems of proliferate water usage has to be addressed. *more readings here http://www.ampac1.com/index.htm*
Just an interesting read as I was researching on golf water usage that highlights innovations that solve technology caused-problems - http://www.worldgolf.com/newswire/browse/57427-UgMO-Advanced-Sensor-Technologys-new-soil-monitoring-system
Now that's what I call life-saving technology. - Reply to this comment
- It helps a lot that information are provided to the general public through you. Keep it up. water is really a problem not only in the United States of America, other countries are having trouble with it too. Water is even predicted to be like oil which will be scarce soon.
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- I'm glad to see that the mainstream media is covering this topic. Hopefully everyone else will follow suit. Unfortunately, most people will not change their ways until water shortage directly effects them. Maybe now people will start to think about their impact of their water use.
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- We need more national media oulets covering this water shortage/scarcity problem. Water resource issues are the next big crisis that the world will face as we duelly grapple with ever more complicated energy resource issues. Wether we want to admit it or not we will all be paying the pied piper of energy sustainability soon.
Larry,
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- I'm one of thirteen students who is striving to learn the importance of our water.We determined it is everyones responsibility to try to conserve water.Our world is rapidly changing in technology, but as we live our every day life we are overlooking what is so vital to us.There are communities out there doing the best they can to save and conserve water, but it takes funding which many do not have.My fellow students and I hope to find a solution to break the barriors which stands before us so we all can live in a peaceful environment. Thankyou
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- I have to wonder why people in the UK use less than 50% of the water consumption Americans do. What is it about our society that we use so much? And what causes us to throw our noses to the environment and create artificial environments that require vast amounts of water in desert lands?
Perhaps our western society would be more aware of their water use if we where forced to make our living from water such as the fishermen and farmers around the shores of Lake Naivasha and Lake Victoria which are also facing receding waters; instead of polluting our water with boats expensive enough to feed a family in Kenya for several years. - Reply to this comment
- good show
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- Let me preface this by saying that I am a currently a student at a Community College in Oregon studying for an AAS degree as a ?water conservation technician?. I have a BS in Geography with an emphasis on Water Resources.
First off, thanks to CBS for being the first mainstream media source to run a good segment on dwindling water supplies in the US. I was heartened to see some effort going into educating and alerting our citizenry to an issue which is well documented and known by water utilities, farmers, academics, and others across the nation and around the world who either work with this issue or whose lives and livelihoods are impacted by it.
While there is always room for argument about some of the data presented, the CBS segment was by and large quite accurate and up to date. A great book for the layman to become better acquainted with issues around global water supplies is When Rivers Run Dry by Fred Pearce (2006). For the US citizen interested in western water policy and conflict, try River Basins of the American West: A High Country News Reader Edited by Char Miller (2009). What these books (and many others) will show is that fresh surface water is over-allocated (more demand than supply) in ever increasing numbers of watersheds throughout the world, including the US. Add to that the groundwater ?mining? of many of our aquifers so that they are being pumped dry faster than precipitation and infiltration can recharge them, and the recipe for water shortages in our future becomes more alarming.
To some of those who are concerned that this is all a hoax, a government plot to increase your taxes, or nothing to worry about because rainfall is a ?renewable? resource, you do not have to look far to find a plethora of articles written about impending or current water shortages and conflicts over use (most likely some of these are in your own local area as well).
As the CBS segment pointed out, a huge, and without a doubt the cheapest, ?new? source of water is through conservation of what we already have. To continue to pay for development of more water supplies is a waste of our utility and tax dollars when we can have as much as a 35% increase through relatively simple conservation measures. - Reply to this comment
- I was happy to see the airing of Americas dwindling water supply. I am in water conservation classes and love to think America might wake up and get on board.It is a job for us all not us few.
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- The impending water shortage/depletion has been evident for some time, yet people continue to move into these unsustainable environs. Why? Answer: the pervaiding view of "not my problem" or "science can fix it" evident by cbs's inclusion in the piece of water desalination as a "fix" to the problem. Good luck, Vegas.
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