Water? there will be no complete, final solution as far as there is no human self control against abuse. A fair human consume would be about 250 to 500 liters per person per day. More than that would be a slap on the face of Spain, Israel, almost all african countries, almost all arab speaking countries, China, etc. Earth is a closed system and an advance on other rights is an abuse. Desalinization of sea water is not a permanent solution: where are we going to place the extracted salt: in the ocean again - killing living organisms even algae that contol our Oxigen? under-earth, polluting our wells?...you choose. The solution is to live with what we have. If you don4t have, take care of it, it is finite and others may not be so fair as to lend it forever and for free, perhaps by force ?!?!. Marcus Rio de Janeiro and Curitiba / Brasil
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:42:46 +1000 From: "stuart henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "the OrchidGuide Digest \(OGD\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [OGD] Re: Water Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: list Reply-To: "the OrchidGuide Digest \(OGD\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message: 3 I was in California last week and it amazed me to see the wastage of water there.Irrigation on grass naturestrips twice a day even irrigation on a succulent garden every afternoon.There was even the hosing down of pathways to remove leaves and other debris everyday where a blower or broom could do the same job. I guess i noticed because we are under rather tough water restrictions where watering by hand is only allowed three days per week at certain hours,drip irrigation is allowed anytime though ,no hosing of paths or hard surfaces and cars to be washed by buckets etc etc. Turning seawater into drinkable water cheaply would be akin to finding the richest vein of gold. Stuart Sydney Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Topletz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 12:53 AM Subject: [OGD] Re: Water > According to my friends at CalTech, in California the propensity to consume water is increasing at such a rate that they will exhaust their own and all surrounding resources for 1000 miles in about 11 years. > > On a further note, the man who can cheaply turn sea water into fresh water will rule the world. I believe if we allow biotech to develop, we will have a chance to avoid this problem. For example, I have heard that jellyfish tissues could be used as a highly efficient biological filter for desalinization. > > ST > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- _______________________________________________ the OrchidGuide Digest (OGD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.orchidguide.com/mailman/listinfo/orchids ------------------------------
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