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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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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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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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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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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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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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Analyzing the poll is a little tricky because I just realized that 2 of the options are basically the same answer. "Normal" and "There will be lots of water to drink" are equivalent so it's actually about over 55% people think that the drinkable water supply will be OK. Still, there's almost one third of people who think there's going to be lots of trouble!Mr. Pool posted: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. Can we really boil the ocean? Do we know for sure we haven't reached the 'end of the desalinization tech-tree'? (Nice relevant username!) Smudgie Buggler posted:There will be very nearly exactly the same amount of water on Earth as there is now. I forgot to say "Drinkable available water" in the topic and original post but that's what I meant. It doesn't need to leave the planet it just needs to somehow be hoarded by government or corporations or one powerful person.
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Mar 7, 2015 09:40
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katlington posted:
Does this mean global warming is actually a good thing for our water supply?
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Mar 7, 2015 09:41
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Water can be obtained by melting ice!
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My bedroom flooded because my grandpa got too much toilet water on his bathroom floor. I wish his water were more scarce hahahah. Really though general consensus seems to be everything will be alright in regards do being able to drink water. Thanks
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Mar 14, 2015 23:57
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Is there going to be lots of people moving from dry places to wet places?? Will there be places that become too wet because of global warming?
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Mar 15, 2015 01:03
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ikanreed posted:You know that most of the water you need goes to growing your food, right? Counterpoint: Not the food that I personally eat, as I live mostly on Ensure™ meal replacement shakes. Water is more important than food and it's better to starve to death than dehydrate to death.
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Mar 15, 2015 01:31
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Can the government take all the water or perhaps control humans so they can't get to the water?
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Mar 23, 2015 08:40
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Dude it's the government, all they'd have to do is declare that water is a drug and buying water on the black market supports terrorism. Can't we just rebel about this? But maybe when I'm 50 years old the government will have most of the majority of guns guided by aritifical intelligence that's what Im concerned about.
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Mar 23, 2015 09:34
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/06/16/new-nasa-studies-show-how-the-world-is-running-out-of-water/ Does this mean it's going to be scarce when I'm old?
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Jul 7, 2015 06:55
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If I adopt children how scarce will water be when they're old?
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Jul 7, 2015 07:12
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