Water map shows billions at risk of 'water insecurity'

[cory777]

Source: BBC

About 80% of the world's population lives in areas where the fresh water supply is not secure, according to a new global analysis.

Researchers compiled a composite index of "water threats" that includes issues such as scarcity and pollution.

The most severe threat category encompasses 3.4 billion people.

Writing in the journal Nature, they say that in western countries, conserving water for people through reservoirs and dams works for people, but not nature.


Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11435522

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[mikelgb]

1. the most stunning thing is the difference water management make to Africa

the opposite effect in the US

[XemaSab]

5. I was just going to say the same thing

:(

[COLGATE4]

2. Oh Christ! Now Glen Beck will be selling 'water futures' or some

other rip-off-the-morans scheme.

[Turborama]

3. The Maps

"Managed"


"Natural"


Looking at the "raw threats" to people's water security - the "natural" picture - much of western Europe and North America appears to be under high stress.

However, when the impact of the infrastructure that distributes and conserves water is added in - the "managed" picture - most of the serious threat disappears from these regions.

Africa, however, moves in the opposite direction.

"The problem is, we know that a large proportion of the world's population cannot afford these investments," said Peter McIntyre from the University of Wisconsin, another of the researchers involved.

More: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11435522

Thanks for the OP. :kick: & R

[AsahinaKimi]

4. That map is sure telling..

Its appears as though there are absolutely no blue spots in the USA. No more Natural fresh water resources? The "managed" map looks a little better, but not by much.

They say Lake Arrow head is where Arrowhead water comes from..



I wonder if thats true.

[XemaSab]

6. I looked it up and you're right

According to the Wikipedia article:

As of 2008, according to the their bottle label, sources of water used are:

Arrowhead Springs, San Bernardino, California
Deer Canyon Springs, San Bernardino County, California
Long Point Ranch, Running Springs, California
Palomar Mountain Granite Springs, Palomar, California
Coyote Springs, Inyo County, California
Southern Pacific Spring, Riverside County, California

[Chemical Bill]

7. K&R. n/t

[Crowman1979]

8. This wouldn't be a problem if people STOPPED HAVING SO MANY DAMN KIDS!!!

That goes for every race, religion and culture on this planet. Because what was considered tradition 100+ years ago, is now killing us! So get over this sky god BS planet Earth!

[defendandprotect]

11. Not only kids drinking the water--- 80% of our water is used by businesses ... !!!

But agree that we have to end organized patriarchal religious control over reproduction

and normal human sexuality .... though Pelosi was off to a bad start in meeting with

the US Catholic Bishops during the health care debate! Pelosi also took a call from Rome!

And then there's STUPAK!! And a whole bunch of Catholic legislators!

Meanwhile, the reality is that that the Bishops and Rome were simply trying to STOP Catholics

from getting what they wanted in health care!!

Catholics supported single payer/government run health care by 73% -- and 10% higher when

Latinos/Latinas were included

They also wanted coverage of reproductive health care -- down the whole list, including AIDS,

condoms, etal --

THEY WANTED ABORTION COVERAGE FOR EVERY CATEGORY BY LARGE MAJORITIES ....

and for simply CHOICE i.e., abortion for ANY REASON -- a 51% majority!!

Catholic women have just as many abortions as any other women and this is true all over the

world!!

In other words, the Catholic hierarchy is always simply trying to keep control over Catholics

by gaining control over our government!!

[Crowman1979]

13. Good point! I find it ridiculous that water-intensive crops are being grown in the desert.

Like in So-Cal.

[defendandprotect]

14. That would seem insane ... but how many of us have paid attention

to where our drinking water-- or all of our water -- originates?

"Chinatown" was interesting on that --

Right now here in NJ/NY area it's very worrisome cause there is a threat to

the upper NY State water sources -- NY has only a 6 month reprieve on fighting

againat.... I think it's those drilling for gas?

Of course, these are all the same people -- those who control our natural resources

and fight to exploit all of nature -- the destroyers!!

UGH!


:)

[canetoad]

17. That has become a burning issue in Australia

Pardon the pun. Rice and cotton are being grown in parts of NSW and we just don't have the water for them.

[Walk away]

19. They'll be sorry when they run out of Holy Water! nt

[KakistocracyHater]

9. lot of Southern California is red=water stressed, even NorCal is only

spotty green, not the good safe blue. Rain-caching would save money on water bills, Better Home & Gardens just had a tut on how to make a garbage can into a rainbarrel; otherwise rain barrels cost hundreds, & I feel eco should not shut out people via high prices.

[defendandprotect]

12. Isn't California mainly water-dependent .... water comes from Colorado ... ???

[KakistocracyHater]

15. you're forgetting the Sierra mountains where the snowpack saves water

for the season.

[defendandprotect]

22. Are you still getting snow -- and snow melt?

However, still, that wouldn't be sufficient for all of California -- right?

[defendandprotect]

10. And consider the pollution of our drinking water -- !!! PLUS the hormones, chemicals,

from medicines in our drinking water now!!

We are in insane species!!!

They've long know that many medicines remain viable in the urine --

In WWII, America had penicillin because tho the Brits developed it they couldn't

mass produce it so America did it --

We didn't have enough for British soldiers who were injured so the hospitals used

to collect the urine of American patients and then use it to treat the British soldiers!

[KakistocracyHater]

16. that is part of why I'd like to divert the sewage pipes to new power plants

that would be pressurized & burn human waste & whatever else is in the sewer pipes, this would in turn generate electrical power-it would be considered a renewable resource(who runs out of poop?)& the side-effect would be cleaner rivers, lakes, reservoirs, streams & shellfish beds.

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[Nihil]

18. I believe that some of the Californian cities (SF?) have been doing this for years ...

(i.e., using processed human waste to generate electricity).

[defendandprotect]

24. And they've been "burning" it ..... ??? Isn't that harmful?

[Nihil]

26. Who said "burning"?

I'll try PMing the local resident who filled me in on this subject
but (at the time) it struck me as by far the most useful option for
this "waste" stream.

[kestrel91316]

27. The City of Los Angeles has, for 50 or 60 years, used solid waste from

the Hyperion sewage treatment facility to produce biogas from which electricity is generated. I read all about it a couple of years ago, and was duly impressed.

[defendandprotect]

23. I guess that's a question the planet is asking itself?

(who runs out of poop?)

What about the burning -- wouldn't that be harmful to the atmosphere? Air quality?

Odors?

Obviously, we need fewer people on the planet!

[booksenkatz]

20. We are *all* at risk. Fracking is going to be the death of us all.

We may not be able to drink our water, but we can by-God set fire to it. It will provide us endless entertainment as we all die of thirst.

See the documentary "Gasland" the next chance you get. It makes "An Inconvenient Truth" look like a cupcakes-n-pony party.

[defendandprotect]

25. GASLAND .... frightening ... and they're after NY State's water resources now ...upstate NY!!

[Evasporque]

21. Water must be bottled and sold....for great profit...

It is the only to protect the natural resource. Make it a commodity.

Imagine...a Water futures market...

:sarcasm:

[ProudDad]

28. Didn't we wiz past "water security" sometime in the last century?

We're WAY beyond that now...