Zastrozzi
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Good water news
Jan 09, 2003, 09:43
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/01/09/water09.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/01/09/ixworld.html
California gets told to curb its thirst.
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ratcni01
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Re: Good water news
Jan 09, 2003, 10:34
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Hey - it's good to see something like this, but the west (primarily) lives beyond it's ecological means and has done for a long time. Like the man said "when the system starts to crack we'll have to be ready to give it all back" or alternatively find other solutions to the technology problem of power. Ultimately this is the thing that sustains the western lifestyle. So it's one or the other no techno stuff long term, or eco.tech our way out of it.
Come on hurry up make yer mind up
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Sorry ...
too slow the world is now over the edge of eco-disaster, just watch as it all disintegrates ..
I always said I wanted to leave my kids something .. at least inheritance tax isn't due on a fucked planet
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Zastrozzi
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Re: Good water news
Jan 09, 2003, 12:14
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Yeah, I know it's an aspirin on a shotgun wound.. still.
"Rejoice my friends, or weep with sorrow. What California is today, the world will be tomorrow"
...thirsty!
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laresident
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Re: Good water news
Jan 09, 2003, 16:29
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I am not too sure.
In London its well known that the water coming out of the tap has been used a few times already. People in Los Angeles on the other hand, have a revulsion about it and "from toilet to tap" became quite an issue. The Dept. of water and power realise that there is plenty of water if its used sensibly but it seems the people wont go for it.
Another thing, although the tap water is obviously perfectly good, dodgy, bottled water sales people
manage to persuade large number of mainly poor immigrants that they have to use bottled water or they will get ill.
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Zastrozzi
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Re: Good water news
Jan 10, 2003, 09:06
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I certainly bow to your greater knowledge of the local scene... but isn't this the first time a Western country has created a permanent legal state of affairs where water is valued as a limited resource, rather than regarded as infinite? This has happened in droughts in the past (there's a more-or-less running joke about hosepipe use bans in the UK), but this is different...
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