Peter Hesseldahl had a quick post about profligate water usage by neighboring Garden City Kansas (well, 597 miles my neighbor). The photos he found on Google Earth do not look remarkable if you fly over the midwest of the United States at all.
One of the messages that was reinforced for me over and over again at WFS in Toronto, as well as in Jared Diamond's Collapse, was that water is going to soon be the new oil, and there will most certainly be wars fought over access to the increasingly scarce resource. This is already taking the form of open hostility in a number of states in the US, here, here and here, as well as open violence in Australia, Bolivia and elsewhere. The United Nations is already offering dire predictions about the lack of fresh water as soon as 2025.
You need it to live. Any ideas how to conserve it?
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