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yep. Death due to non low-flush toilets installed.

• noonespecial 16y ago
  If you don't think that how buildings use water isn't going to be ridiculously important in the next hundred years of human expansion, you've got some reading to do. Lives might actually be at stake. Livelihoods almost certainly will.
  • VladRussian 16y ago
    how can one be that brainwashed. Doesn't it seem strange to you that instead of real pricing on water and energy (that would trigger efficiency improve across the board) there is that hysterical propaganda of individual conservation despite the fact that individual consumption pales in comparison to Big Agriculture&Industry? I just hear the sound of your brain being flip-flopped by the propaganda : paper to plastic -> saving trees plastic to paper -> saving the planet and as a result your attention being diverted from the real causes of the problem. "Lives might actually be at stake. Livelihoods almost certainly will." You're absolutely right. WW III, if it happens, will be about global enforcing of cap&trade once the countries most severely affected by the global warming (incl. its consequences like harsh weather and water shortage) organize together and amass enough military power. Low-flush and biking to work, while feeding your ego with warm and fuzzy feeling that you're personally saving the planet, don't mean anything at that scale.
  • Dylan16807 16y ago
    Desalination costs well under a penny per gallon. There's no shortage of water if you're willing to pay a small fee.
    • VladRussian 16y ago
      Going that way will expose the market (ie. real) price of water and thus will significantly affect largest (and politically connected) consumers - Agriculture and Industry - kicking them off the nice ride they've been having on subsidized water _stolen_ from the Nature.