Report A majority on Earth face severe self-inflicted water woes within 2 generations: Scientists

[tom_mai78101]

A conference of 500 leading water scientists from around the world today issued a stark warning that, without major reforms, "in the short span of one or two generations, the majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will be living under the handicap of severe pressure on fresh water, an absolutely essential natural resource for which there is no substitute. This handicap will be self-inflicted and is, we believe, entirely avoidable."

The scientists bluntly pointed to chronic underlying problems led by mismanagement and sent a prescription to policy makers in a 1,000-word declaration issued at the end of a four-day meeting in Bonn, Germany, "Water in the Anthropocene," organized by the Global Water System Project and detailed in a pre-conference release: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/gwsp-sig051413.php.

In the short span of one or two generations, the majority of the 9 billion people on Earth will be living under the handicap of severe pressure on fresh water, an absolutely essential natural resource for which there is no substitute. This handicap will be self-inflicted and is, we believe, entirely avoidable.

After years of observations and a decade of integrative research convened under the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) and other initiatives, water scientists are more than ever convinced that fresh water systems across the planet are in a precarious state.

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[Varine]

It's entirely avoidable by refining salt and contaminated water with simple filtration techniques. A non-issue at best.

 

[tom_mai78101]

It's entirely avoidable by refining salt and contaminated water with simple filtration techniques. A non-issue at best.

Yes, expensive, yet simple techniques.

 

[mushroom911]

It's entirely avoidable by refining salt and contaminated water with simple filtration techniques. A non-issue at best.

Won't it become more of a power issue than water issue if we dedicate our resources to refine saltwater....?
Ed: power as in energy

 

[camelCase]

izk, we drink own piss.

 

[tom_mai78101]

izk, we drink own piss.

Poisonous if drank more than once.

 

[camelCase]

That's why I'm applying for a kidney transplant to get a third kidney. 3 > 2. So it won't be as poisonous. I think two generations is enough time to get a third kidney legally. Failing that, there's always China..

 

[Hatebreeder]

Well, countries that have alot of rainfall could make a shitload of money. The one with the biggest bucket and some knowledge on fire will probably be the most successfull.

 

[Varine]

Yes, expensive, yet simple techniques.

Charcoal filters are not expensive. Even really expensive filters to like 0% contaminants at retail only run about 10 cents a gallon; large scale ones are maybe .75 cents for incredibly volatile water, but for typical things like chlorine cost a tenth of that because they last so much longer. As for desalination, fresh water is a byproduct of the manufacture of sea salt, which also isn't very expensive. You don't even have to boil it, really, just set up a catch for the condensation to build on that slopes into a secondary container. Slower, but new filtration methods are coming out that are much cheaper and easier. This could even be done in homes with relative ease as a secondary function of the water heater or something. And, hey, the possibility of free salt.

 

[tom_mai78101]

I liked for sea salt to be a bit more cheaper than regular salt.

 

[Varine]

That sentence was grammatically fragmented and you will need to clarify the tense used before it will make sense. Alternatively, I hear FireCat is thinking about moving up to PlasmaCat, so there will be room for a similar position if that's what your edge is here.

 

[tom_mai78101]

This is the part where I'm going to need help on. Without additional hints, I can't see anything wrong.

 

[Varine]

"I liked for sea salt to be a bit more cheaper than regular salt"

This is an awkward error because of the syntactic structure. Specifically the issue is with the work 'liked' which is a past participle, probably in place of 'I would like". Following that, the use of 'more' is redundant because cheaper already assumes that role as it can be quasi-defined as 'more cheap', i.e. something that is cheaper than something is more cheap than said item.

Therefore, my deductions lead me to believe that you intended on saying something along the lines of "I would like for sea salt to be a bit cheaper than regular salt," which is less ambiguous and far more clear. However the use 'for' in the phrase 'I would like for sea salt..." is slightly distracting, though not necessarily against the rules, so primarily for the sake of creating a undisrupted flow as it is altogether an unnecessary preposition, it should be dropped from the sentence, creating:

I would like sea salt to be a bit cheaper than regular salt.

 

[tom_mai78101]

Yes, sir. Today, I learned a lesson.