water.
headline after headline about financial crisis.. but the usual fools are missing the point. 'normal' in international finances is part of the problem.
not far from where I am staying is a largish inner-city park. part of the land has recently been fenced off and heavy construction is going on 24/7. they are installing a substation for a water desalination plant as I understand. (still one never knows what to believe.)
a couple of years ago Sydney’s water infrastructure was under stress. there was 20% or something left in the reservoirs and the sky was looking cloudless. mmm. its the kind of thing that happens here. people began to change the way they used water.. the lawns died off. even native plants were looking stressed.
but Sydney is a lucky place. it rained and the reservoirs are much healthier now. still the plans for a desalination plant that were put in place at some expense are still going ahead..
i am not sure what the cost of desalinated sea would cost at the house meter per litre but I doubt that it would be affordable. if the rain stops falling its basically time to go some place else. water desalination plants are a political scam I’d say. .. its probably more about the (hysterical) illusion of property prices.. hehehe.
while the story here is at least on the surface a lucky one, the same can’t be said for much of the rest of the world.
figures tell a partial story.. but one in five persons is said to not have access to clean drinking water. (my guess is that it is more than that. two in five have inadequate access.(more i reckon). millions of farmers have inadequate water. there are reports on the radio of glaciers in Tibet melting at such a rate that China, India and other countries there about will face huge changes in water availability in the next decade or two.. that is one place only.
the consumer lifestyle and population explosion of the past 100 years have so depleted major sources of water through overuse and pollution.
bad management and wastage is the main problem. (wrong {changeable} thinking)
in addition, global warming is expected to add another factor that will alter the patterns and expectations of most people.
the fact is that humanity has to begin to view water use differently. the way we view it needs to be transformed. the point is that we need to transform the way we think on this most fundamental level .. the stuff of life..H2o (can i say it again?)
water needs to be harvested, recycled and conserved. this is an obvious starting point. .. human intellect has to be applied to the problem on a fundamental level. we need a revolutionary change in thought as part of our relationship to the earth. ...application... this is what the headlines should be about. this is what should be in the textbooks of schoolchildren.
i know a ph.d student who studies the question of water and demographics.. his opinion is that there is enough water .. but most of it is used inefficiently. mostly in agriculture.
he will be right. in time it is the experts to whom the politicians will pay attention .. not the opinion polls. thirst will see to it. probably long after the ones we have are gone (hellbound) along with the opportunities and money they have squandered.
tejas fu
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