E = mc2
They do it all the time down on Lake Anna.
Posted on 03/24/2015 10:41:42 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The world will run out of fresh water long before it runs out of oil, with the potential for major deficits by 2030, the chairman of bottled water giant Nestle said.
"We have a major water management crisis," Peter Brabeck-Letmathe told CNBC on the sidelines of the Credit Suisse Asian Investment Conference on Tuesday. "We are destroying 20 percent more water for human consumption than there is available."
Around 1.2 billion people, or almost one-fifth of the world's population, live in areas of physical scarcity, and 500 million people are approaching this situation, according to data from the United Nations. Another 1.6 billion people, or almost one quarter of the world's population, face economic water shortage.
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"Water is a human right. I fully agree with that," Brabeck-Letmathe said, noting that the around 30 liters a day needed for basic living should be provided without charge to those who can't afford it. But that amount only accounts for around 1.5 percent of the fresh water destroyed daily, he said.
He's more concerned about the other 98.5 percent. "I don't think it's a human right to fill up a swimming pool. I don't think it's a human right to wash cars. I don't think it's a human right to water a golf course," he said.
Growing investment gap
In addition to general concerns about wasteful use, Brabeck-Letmathe noted that water infrastructure has a growing investment gap, estimating the global minimum needed is around $770 billion a year, with the annual deficit running at around $250 billion.
"Infrastructure is falling apart," he said, adding it's not just an emerging market problem, with around 35 percent of water in London lost due to poor infrastructure.
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This is something on the order of the fake global warming.
The amount of water on earth remains fairly constant. Water, even sewer wastewater or salt water is treatable and made drinkable.
I don’t golf or have a swimming pool, but I don’t care if a neighbor does, it’s just part of our freedom.
What these jackasses want is fixing it so all of us are just scared to death over anything, while the left elite get to golf and enjoy their pools.
Yep.
Why is he charging anything for it? Has he dug any wells on his own dime in the most impoverished countries?
My cousin lived in Texas in the 1970’s and I remember a sign above her apt toilet that said ‘Flush twice, it’s a long way to Houston’.
I agree!
How much you wanna bet this guy drives a spotlessly clean car 24/7 and has a built in swimming pool for his kids in his yard?
Good for me, but not for the “little people”.
Hey, Nestle’s chairman. Denying people water will not provide a drop of water to those that need it. Denial and rationing are props used by socialists to create and maintain their power over others. They help no one in any substantive way, yet they hurt a lot of people in the process.
If you really care, there are many technologies that can provide vast amounts of potable water to those in need. And these technologies are getting better and better, as well as less expensive.
“I don’t think it’s a human right to fill up a swimming pool. I don’t think it’s a human right to wash cars. I don’t think it’s a human right to water a golf course,” he said.
Obviously this man has too much money. Were he to use it to give water to the poor, people could still have their swimming pools, wash their cars, and water their golf courses, even if Obama uses them.
Unless he puts his money where his mouth is, instead of just whining that government should hurt people, he is just another hypocritical socialist, who doesn’t deserve the right time of day.
What a loon.
Matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
The ignorance is breathtaking.
The amount of water on the planet has not changed since it formed.
The form it takes; liquid, solid or gas, changes constantly by the process of evaporation, condensation and freezing, but it never goes away, it cannot be destroyed like a fossil fuel. Once you burn coal, it is gone, the result of combustion cannot be reversed and make back into coal.
I gotta go wash my car.
Maybe all other states should do that for California!
Of course untreated!
By the way Key West use cisterns until 1944 when a aqueduct/pipe was place from Florida City to the Keys.
Electrolysis.
But it's only temporary.
E = mc2
They do it all the time down on Lake Anna.
We’re spending the money on a high speed rail line to nowhere when we should be building Thorium-based nuke plants and using the waste heat to produce water for farmers.
They are the ones using the most water, for good reason. We should grow food where there is lots of sunlight, but building desalination plants were the only output is fresh water is STUPID.
The planet has lots of water on it. To make more water, the planet’s got to get HOTTER, by the way. More water vapor in the air, more rain that comes from the sky.
As such, converting seawater into fresh water is the easiest fix. This is a solved problem. We just need to implement the solution. The water can be used in its distilled form in farming, and will likely result in better, healthier plants.
Chlorine and Fluoride are added to tap water. Distilled water won’t have that problem.
Lemanthe should put his money where his considerable mouth is.
Let them die of thirst. These people actually want to put in a pipeline to the Great Lakes, since they need water more than the Midwest.
I watched part of a documentary on Netflix. Called "Levitated Mass", it details the story of a 340 ton granite rock being moved from a Riverside quarry to the LACMOA. After watching the first half, (My gag limit.), it came to me that we don't have enough ammo to kill that much Cali stupid...
Bump
That’s part of BO’s Health Care drug plan.
You will be charged for it by the IRS.
S/ in there somewhere
If you live on a river, the water treatment plant is always upstream and the sewer plant is downstream of the city.
I’d be careful if I lived in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
See who is upstream...
I never thought about that....thanks.....I think.
...the chairman of bottled water giant Nestle said... "We are destroying 20 percent more water for human consumption than there is available."Maybe we could stop peddling baby formula in Africa, huh, stupid?
"Water is a human right. I fully agree with that," Brabeck-Letmathe said, noting that the around 30 liters a day needed for basic living should be provided without charge to those who can't afford it.IOW, this is really about the Swiss' support for Hamas and the other "Palestinian" terrorist orgs; the next ratchet up will be the revival of the libel about how Israel is killing everyone around them with thirst.
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