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How scarce will water be when I'm old? Let's say 2050. I'd put more effort into my OP but I don't know anything about scarcity but I thought it'd be a good topic. Thanks.
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Mar 6, 2015 07:54
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Where do you live in 2050?
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Mar 6, 2015 08:02
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Did it rain that specific day?
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Mar 6, 2015 08:12
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Hahaha old? Who do you think you are?
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Mar 6, 2015 08:15
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Anosmoman posted:Where do you live in 2050? Let's say I'll live in uhh Alberta Canada. I hadn't even considered that different geographical locations would have different amounts of scarcity... Which places will have the most water and which places will have the least? Are there countries that I should avoid if I want to be able to drink water when I'm old?
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Mar 6, 2015 08:18
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Frykte posted:Let's say I'll live in uhh Alberta Canada. I hadn't even considered that different geographical locations would have different amounts of scarcity... Which places will have the most water and which places will have the least? Are there countries that I should avoid if I want to be able to drink water when I'm old? are you living the US/Canada/Western Europe? congrats you have water
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Mar 6, 2015 08:25
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Scrub-Niggurath posted:are you living the US/Canada/Western Europe? congrats you have water As much water as I have now?? (a lot)
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Mar 6, 2015 08:29
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You should move to the ocean. I hear there is lots of water there.
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Mar 6, 2015 08:29
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Rent-A-Cop posted:You should move to the ocean. I hear there is lots of water there. I forgot to put this in the title, but I meant drinking water specifically. I don't know if you're making a joke because by 2050 perhaps we'll be able to use technology to drink ocean water??
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Mar 6, 2015 08:31
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Frykte posted:As much water as I have now?? (a lot) Yes
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Mar 6, 2015 08:31
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This is a huge relief, thanks! How bad will it be for people who aren't in Canada/US/Western Europe??
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Mar 6, 2015 08:32
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Will corporations own a lot of the water? What about rich people??
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Mar 6, 2015 08:36
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depends how much piss you are willing to drink. a glass? a bottle? a MAGNUM?? bless
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Mar 6, 2015 08:37
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Frykte posted:I forgot to put this in the title, but I meant drinking water specifically. I don't know if you're making a joke because by 2050 perhaps we'll be able to use technology to drink ocean water??
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Mar 6, 2015 08:38
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Frykte posted:This is a huge relief, thanks! How bad will it be for people who aren't in Canada/US/Western Europe?? Depends. quote:Will corporations own a lot of the water? What about rich people??
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Mar 6, 2015 08:41
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Hopefully we'll all be rendered into carbon by The War Against The Machines.
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Mar 6, 2015 08:41
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What about all of my children? Will they run out of water in their lives? grandchildren?
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Mar 6, 2015 08:46
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Frykte posted:What about all of my children? Will they run out of water in their lives? grandchildren? your children are ugly stupid assholes. their death is a good thing. bless bro
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Mar 6, 2015 08:47
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Sergg posted:Hopefully we'll all be rendered into carbon by The War Against The Machines. Can it be mutated alien machines? I don't want to be rendered into carbon by Windows 82.
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Mar 6, 2015 08:53
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Frykte posted:What about all of my children? Will they run out of water in their lives? grandchildren? Have you ever seen the movie "Tank Girl"? Their lives would be like that.
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Mar 6, 2015 09:29
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There will be very nearly exactly the same amount of water on Earth as there is now. Where are you afraid it's going to go?
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Mar 6, 2015 16:37
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Smudgie Buggler posted:There will be very nearly exactly the same amount of water on Earth as there is now. Water, now with new Fracking Additive. It does the body good!
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Mar 6, 2015 16:39
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Alberta's probably in trouble because the glacial melt will run out by the time you're old OP.
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Mar 6, 2015 16:40
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Rich people will stick a straw on you and drink you dry.
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Mar 6, 2015 17:13
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Op, I heard a saying the other day, maybe it's a help? "Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink"
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Mar 6, 2015 17:26
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The world will be a desert and all who live here will wear evap suits to conserve water. Once you die we will take you water and pass it out to those who still live. We will all ride giant worms and mine spice.
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Mar 6, 2015 19:37
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This is a good point, OP are you expecting a zombie or sand worm future? If the former then yes I assume the umbrella corporation will own the water, poo poo it's in their name.
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Mar 6, 2015 20:14
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lmao if you don't have stillsuits yet for your grandkids.
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Mar 6, 2015 20:26
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He who controls the waters of life, controls the universe.
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Mar 6, 2015 21:20
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If you're worried, start putting away a few water bottles every month, and invest in a water bed.
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Mar 6, 2015 21:33
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I think if you look in the mirror, you will have an italics-at-the-end-of-Lovecaft-story-like revelation discovering that you are, in fact, old right now!!
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Mar 6, 2015 21:40
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Basically, op, it depends on what city you live in. In the Alberta Civil War of 2048 Calgarian Khanate detonates a dirty bomb up the North Saskatchewan river, rendering most of Edmonton's water supply undrinkable.
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Mar 7, 2015 02:25
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Not gonna lie, one of pluses of getting moved to Virginia from Phoenix was that I would get out of an area that was a walking water crisis. Spending the previous 20 years in Phoenix taught me to appreciate water, loathe golf courses, and fear for the longevity of the West.
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Mar 7, 2015 02:44
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We'll all be fine (in the west) once we get our heads out of our asses and start using nuclear fission for industrial scale desalination of ocean water, just like those gulf countries do. The solution is to literally boil the ocean.
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Mar 7, 2015 03:27
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the water must flow
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Mar 7, 2015 03:30
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Rent-A-Cop posted:You should move to the ocean. I hear there is lots of water there. My neighbor likes to tell me that San Diego is a desert. I can't convince him that just because it doesn't rain a lot, it is most certainly not a loving desert. All he has to do is walk outside any night and see the condensation covering everything. But noooooo, that isn't real water. (We live about a mile from the coast).
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Mar 7, 2015 03:36
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Turnquiet posted:Not gonna lie, one of pluses of getting moved to Virginia from Phoenix was that I would get out of an area that was a walking water crisis. Spending the previous 20 years in Phoenix taught me to appreciate water, loathe golf courses, and fear for the longevity of the West. golf courses are the cadillac welfare queens of water conservation.
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Mar 7, 2015 05:23
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Pohl posted:My neighbor likes to tell me that San Diego is a desert. I can't convince him that just because it doesn't rain a lot, it is most certainly not a loving desert. All he has to do is walk outside any night and see the condensation covering everything. But noooooo, that isn't real water. (We live about a mile from the coast). That doesn't make it not a desert, it's merely a desert on the coastline. You get just 10 inches of rain a year, many large desert regions in the US get up to 12 inches a year. Anyway, OP, conssult this map for who's likely to end up with insufficent water in the near future (20 years): 
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Mar 7, 2015 05:40
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No worries OP. If we run out of water, some future corp will just de-orbit a few ice asteroids into the planet. Problem solved.
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Mar 7, 2015 06:44
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Pohl posted:My neighbor likes to tell me that San Diego is a desert. I can't convince him that just because it doesn't rain a lot, it is most certainly not a loving desert. All he has to do is walk outside any night and see the condensation covering everything. But noooooo, that isn't real water. (We live about a mile from the coast). You're kidding right? San Diego, and in fact much of Southern California, is a desert. It's not a sand-dune desert like you see in the movies, but the amount of rain it gets throughout the year (~10 inches) absolutely makes it a desert. Seriously, the only question you have to ask is this: "What would this place look like if it wasn't for the massive amounts of water we're importing from the north?" The answer is something like this: 
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