Posted on 03/03/2020 4:23:54 AM PST by grundle
A writer named Natalie Stoclet recently wrote this article, which is called “I lived a week without using any water – and it showed me just how much we’re affecting the water crisis.”
Stoclet describes the “water crisis” with these words:
663 million people in the developing world don’t have immediate access to water, yet the average American household uses more than 300 gallons of water per day.
Stoclet then explains her attempt to address this problem:
There are many simple ways to conserve, from turning off the tap while brushing your teeth to taking shorter showers.
I went a week without water to try and see how much we really use and found the hardest part was the mental challenge.
That is not logical. The water that Stoclet avoided using during that week did not somehow get magically transported to the countries where those 663 million people live. Her week of conservation did absolutely nothing whatsoever to help any of those people.
Stoclet also wrote:
663 million people in the developing world don’t have immediate access to water. Millions of those may have to walk up to six hours to find it. This is a task often reserved for young children and this often means that they don’t even have time to pursue an education.
You think about cities like Cape Town, which just barely avoided the crisis of running out of water.
The reason that Cape Town has a shortage of water has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Stoclet’s use of water.
The real reason that Cape Town has a shortage of water is because it chose to reject Israel’s offer of help to build desalination plants.
Israel itself is a very densely populated country, in the desert, with perpetual drought.
If any country should have a shortage of water, it’s Israel.
But according to this article from haaretz.com, this is what desalination has done for Israel:
Over and Drought: Why the End of Israel’s Water Shortage Is a Secret
Remember all the years of being told to conserve ‘every drop?’ Well, times have changed: Today, Israel has so much affordable water, it can offer to export it. So why is this achievement being kept so secret?
There is now a surplus of water in Israel, thanks largely to the opening of several new desalination plants
Those desalination plants did not appear by magic. Instead, Israel chose to build them.
Cape Town, by comparison, chose to reject Israel’s offer of help to build desalination plants.
And Stoclet’s act of going a week without water will do absolutely nothing whatsoever to help the people of Cape Town.
According to the same article from haaretz.com, the cost of desalination in Israel is only 40 cents per cubic meter. That works out to less than 1/5 penny per gallon.
Stoclet wrote the following:
You think about cities like Cape Town, which just barely avoided the crisis of running out of water… Yet at the same time, the average American household uses more than 300 gallons of water per day.
Israel desalinizes that same amount of water – 300 gallons – for less than 60 cents.
And yet, Stoclet’s article has no mention whatsoever of desalination as a way to solve the “water crisis” that 663 million people are experiencing.
Instead, Stoclet mistakenly thinks that her own water consumption somehow “affects the water crisis.”
The 663 million people suffering from the “water crisis” don’t need Stoclet or anyone else to reduce their own use of water. Instead, what those 663 million people need is desalination.
Stoclet also wrote:
It has been made easy for us to treat water as a limitless resource
While it’s true that the earth has a finite amount of water, it’s also true that that water is infinitely recyclable. The water that we drink today is the same water that the dinosaurs drank 100 million years ago. And as long as we build enough enough desalination plants, and the people who use that water are willing to pay 1/5 penny for each and every gallon that they use, then we can indeed treat water as if it is a “limitless resource.”
btt
Hegelian dialectics at work again...or the more common never let a (created) crisis go waste.
You didn’t build that! - Oh, yes we did.
When I was a kid, I was told that I needed to eat all my dinner because there were starving children in China.
They had no answer when I asked how to send my food to China.
The water that we drink today is the same water that the dinosaurs drank 100 million years ago.
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The true Science Deniers on our planet will truly deny the true implications of this true fact.
I’m still having problems with that 300 gallons a day comment.
We’re a closed loop system, never any more and never and less. I use this in my theory of why oceans rise while the amount of water remains the same.
The water that we drink today is the same water that the dinosaurs drank 100 million years ago.
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Or it could be the same water ADOLF HITLER drank!!!!! That would make us NAZIS!!!!!!
No Flush for a week?
When I was a kid, I was told that I needed to eat all my dinner because there were starving children in China.
They had no answer when I asked how to send my food to China.
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I heard the same stuff growing up. My reaction was: how is me eating my dinner going to help a kid in China.
Two things worth mentioning about this.
First, though they didn’t state it clearly, I think the message was that we should be more appreciative that we live in a country where food is abundant.
Second, it’s interesting that the parents of the 50s and 60s often referenced China, surely without knowing the details why. The Great Leap Forward, the source of 50 million famine deaths, was pretty much covered up by the Chinese tyrants and their western press sychophants... and yet, we knew... we knew something was wrong in that horrible place. Without knowing exactly what.
BTW, I wonder if Israeli kids are told to drink all their water because the Arab kids are all thirsty.
Oh, gee, look... another manufactured “crisis”.
Don’t worry; by next week, Natalie will find ANOTHER crisis to whine and cry about.
And another moronic liberal idiot stupid bstrd bites the dust (no pun).
Thank you Dan.
I’d bet Natalie also hates the generation of electricity, which desalination plants require.
You can recycle it quite a few times but eventually the chemical bonds break down from age and then the old, tired water ends up buried in a landfills. But old, tired water should be placed in concrete barrels and buried in a long term storage facility underground to ensure that we are not slowly poisoned by dihydrogen monoxide compounds.
Here endeth today's lesson in environmentalism. I want to believe!
I’m just curious... does she have a chemical toilet? Or just did not flush for a week?
Yeah, same here. I have a well - so no meter. Anyone check their water bill lately?
And did she send some bottled water to Cape Town?
I agree. I was trying to be somewhat satirical toward her apparent belief that if we save water, they get more in Cape Town.
My mother in law and I had a similar argument. Nestle Water built a packaging plant about 50 miles from her. There was all kinds of hysteria because Nestle was draining the Aquifer. I did a small amount of research. At maximum production, Nestle can bottle 400 gallons per minute. A fire truck can pump something like 5000 gallons in five minutes and the flow from Lake Huron through the Detroit River is 13 billion gallons a minute. 400 gallons is absolutely nothing. Then I reminded her of the water cycle and that water is infinitely recycled.
The fault in Cape Town is political. They refuse to take help from Jews. PJ O’Rourke wrote a great book called “All the Trouble in the World.” He showed clearly how virtually every single cataclysmic famine event was caused by greed or politics, not natural causes.
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