[boris]

There is no shortage of water--there cannot be one on a planet which has a surface that is 70% or more H₂O.

There is a shortage of energy. With sufficient cheap energy, you can desalinate as much seawater into "fresh" water as you want.

Think nuclear power.

--Boris

[HetLoo]

Ban sealed caskets. Human being are 80% water, but when they die that's all trapped in sealed caskets instead of being reabsorbed by the earth like it ought to be.

[Old Professer]

There is no shortage of energy either; most of it is wasted bitching about imagined catastrophes.

[Mensch]

I do think nuclear Boris, and I think it is the answer to our energy problems. Unfortunately cheap power doesn't necessarily mean cheap water. Unleashing market forces should help balance the equation though.

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

I'm with you Boris... we need more energy, and nuclear is our best option. It sure beats people dying from black lung disease, or from floods, etc.

But I also think we need to stop subsidising water to farmers, or to anyone. The big transfer of tax payer wealth for the benefit of a few farmers is wrong... particularly when they are subsidized in other ways also.