If they start pumping from the bottom, start holding your breath when you shower.
Bloomington IL had to do that same thing a long while back (Hell, I was in gradeshool still I think), and the smell from that water would about make you puke. The stench of algae would also then HANG on you all day. Was almost better to NOT bathe. You smelled better. |
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Sounds like global warming to me.
Try throwing virgins into a volcano. I’ve heard that works.
And buy shares in the bottled water companies. |
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Try throwing virgins into a volcano No wonder I can’t find any... |
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Scott Jacobs writes:No wonder I can’t find any... I heard there was a handful left in a convent in Minnesota, but they’re going fast. |
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"What can government do? Not much"
Wellllll....they do have reverse osmosis water purifiers that the military uses. You can make from 600 to 3,000 gph of potable drinking water from salt water from one unit....and you do have a big salty drinky to your right. I’m sure they couldn’t fill your lake back up but getting potable H2O wouldn’t be a problem if it got that bad. I’m just sayin’. |
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I heard there was a handful left in a convent in Minnesota, but they’re going fast. Have you seen the chicks in Minnesota?
*shudders*
There’s a reason they’re virgins, dude... |
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Jacobs has apparently never been to Philadelphia. |
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Martin McPhillips
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Been to Pittsburg. Another place that won’t be on my world tour to find a bride. |
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Hey, you keep diggin on Minni-soda and MK is going to show up and start dronning on and on about their defense of individual freedoms and how Mr Smith should be running this country and how many languages Enoch Powell can speak and then he throws up all over the Cuba Libras how many great statesmen they’ve contributed even though he’s never been there and doesn’t live there.
I need to check and see if Minn is a red-state all over, that’ll determine his willingess to defend it. |
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You read what MK posts?
See, there’s yer problem right there... :) |
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I blame BOOO000OSH!
and the JOOOOOOOOS! |
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Well, yes. There’s always room to blame the jews.
*rolls his eyes*
Where are you people coming from? |
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We had a water shortage in Maryland a couple of years ago, with statewide restrictions on use even for those on wells. While the restrictions were in place I asked a couple of state politicians what plans they were making to cope with the inevitable future water shortages, noting that population increases would increase the demand on existing water resources, and that another drought was a mathematical certainty. After the usual momentary blank stare and frozen smile as mental processes crashed and rebooted, a new subject was broached.
I am reassured, however, by the fact that politicians at all levels are proactive about greenhouse gasses and energy independence. We will need all the tanker capacity saved by not importing oil for importing water.
I am sure the politicians in Georgia are doing better at planning. |
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Man, when I was flying out of Gwinnett County, I had my Private Pilot checkride cancelled for weather eleven times in a row.
If not for me trying to win that ticket, the drought would have turned up six years ago.
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Scott,
I thought the spelling of both Bush and Jews would be clue to the sarcasm inherent in the comment.
A number of folks seem to love to blame the President for everything, so I figured Atlanta’s drought should be blamed on him, too. |
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Mark brings up a good point people ignore.
I live in Miami, and we were only recently removed from the Drought list after a good wet season. Most of our water comes from Aquifers below the state and Lake Okeechobee. However, the Lake is drying up and hasn’t been flowing in the right direction for a few years now.
But I wonder: considering how cheap Cruise liners provide potable water by desalinization, why hasn’t their been a business yet that has created a salt water to potable water Plant on the shores of the Atlantic? That would solve MANY problems. |
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Hell, you could even sell the left over salt, too |
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"What can government do? Not much, except ban and enforce in this case." Since the government probably owns all the municipal water supplies, how about "raise the price?" Further, how about continuing, in the future, to take some shot at matching price to available supply, so that some mechanism other than command and control rationing can be used as a matching technique for supply and demand. This "price" thingie is something that has been used successfully to manage resources in short supply in many other commodity groups.
Water and the price mechanism: In Arizona; In Georgia. |
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Ah. My bad, Scotch. Mea Culpa |
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So far, no one seems to have mentioned raising the price of water. I’d like to see a quota tariff system with the first 100 gals/day/per person in a household being at a slightly higher price, and everything above that at a whopping great price. Same price to apply to commercial establishments. The quota amounts should be tradeable as well.
The one place where I depart from market-friendly solutions is golf courses. NO water for the golfers. (Sorry: A personal thing.) |
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"But I wonder: considering how cheap Cruise liners provide potable water by desalinization, why hasn’t their been a business yet that has created a salt water to potable water Plant on the shores of the Atlantic? That would solve MANY problems."
The only one I know of for sure is the one at GITMO and I believe that is only for the use of GITMOganders and their new fenced in friends.
I’m sure there are some out there working on just such a business right now. I’m also sure it would end up being way more complicated than it needed to be via bureaucracy from the feds and locals.
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Just talked to someone "in the know"...there are indeed multiple desalinization plants up and down the east coast and one or two in Texas. Miami, Tampa, Mertle Beach, Hilton Head, etc.
The one in Tampa, as i’m told, is the one of the largest in the world (5-8million gallons per day).
SO, why Ga isn’t in on the fun I dunno. I will say though that Atlanta is a ways away from the drink. |
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but it isn’t so far away that you couldn’t pipe it over.
and even if you couldn’t, but reducing the surrounding area’s need to compete for the same source of water, you free up Atlanta. Either way, to works. |
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Or, have the desalt plant by the ocean, and pump the fresh water inland, upstream of the reservoir. If it is profitable (after regulations, taxes and permits,) there will probably be some company looking to fill this need eventually. Regulations may actually be blocking the needed progress in this area though.Every metro Atlantan uses about 70 gallons of water per day. That just seems like an awful lot of water to be using in a day. Showers are probably the majority of the use. Might be time to start turning off the shower between soaking, and rinsing. You don’t really need the water running while you soap up.
Here’s an interesting tool, but the numbers are skewed a bit towards inefficiencies.
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/sq3.html
Most toilets should now be 1.6gal flush (the high efficiency one we just installed works very well. Much better then the old 1.6gal) We have restricted shower heads. We haven’t kept the faucet running while brushing our teeth in years. We have all new washer, and dishwasher, so they are as efficient as we can afford. |
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Every metro Atlantan uses about 70 gallons of water per day. That could be cut to about 45 gallons through in-home conservation efforts... One of the things that really bugs me about many of the AGW crew, particularly within my family, is how wasteful they are, from electricity, petrol, refuse to water. A reduction from 70 to 45 gallons a day isnt conservation, its common sense. Reducing usage to below 45 gallons a day is conservation. |
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Joel, I was under the impression the rainy season wasn’t all that rainy here (in Florida), and that Lake Okeechobee is still well under its normal levels, which means drought conditions will return pretty quickly (unless Noel made a bigger contribution than I think it did).
But drought has afflicted Florida for the last year—ironic in view of how many storms blew through the state in 2004 and 2005. But the drought was also brought on in part by that same parade of hurricane.
After Katrina, people noticed the levees around Okeechobee were not in the best of shape. People also noticed local history, to wit, that in 1928, hurricane induced breaches of those levees led to the death of over 2500 people (the usual figure is 2800+, but has been subject to upward revisions in recent years), and that in 2004 four hurricanes passed over or near to the lake. (Yes, there were places in central Florida that were unlucky enough to be in the direct path of four different storms that year.) This concern was reinforced by Wilma later that season, which also moved fairly close to the lake.
People therefore got the idea in their head that if Florida suffered another year of storms in 2006, the levees would fail, with results comparable to Katrina or even 1928. The Army Corps of Engineers therefore lowered the water level of the lake before the start of the 2006 season, to prevent such a possibility, and assuming that at least one hurricane would come close enough to replenish the lake.
In 2006, we had one rather puny tropical storm.
In 2007, the only storm to come even close is Noel.
And in both years, regular rain levels have been below the usual amounts.
Lake Okeechobee remains unreplenished.
Got to hand it to those ACE meteorologists, don’t you think?
BTW, out of country—Israel just opened its fifth (IIRC) dezalination plant.
Over there, the Dead Sea is evaporating. |
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After posting the above I found this, with updated information.
http://thefloridamasochist.blogspot.com/2007/11/knuckleheads-of-day-award.html |
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"considering how cheap Cruise liners provide potable water by desalinization"
What makes you think it is cheap compared to conventional water supplies?
"Every metro Atlantan uses about 70 gallons of water per day."
Is that personal household use or a per capita figure which includes things like car washes, street cleaning and governmental use, etc.?
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