On 12/12/2009 5:21 AM HeyBub spake thus:

charlie b wrote:

It's not the population growth that's the problem - it's the
consumption of non-renuable resources or the resources that are
renewable - but not at a rate need that is - and it'll be water -
that you can drink - that we should be concerned about.

Almost all water is previously USED water. Whatever it was used for is just
temporary. Water, like energy cannot really be destroyed - it's just being
used somewhere.

As for water shortages, the fix is usually quite simple to describe: the
areas susceptible to drought should quit growing water-intensive foods. They
should import water-intensive food from areas where water is abundant. For
example, it makes no sense to grow rice in the Sudan.

Right; just as it makes little or no sense to grow cotton in Arizona.

*Cotton* in Arid-zona???!??


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