Water shortages are looming

[Doseone]

I can't wait for the day when water becomes the new oil and then Wales will become the new Saudi.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

If you removed water from the atmosphere, its humidity would decrease. Reducing the humidity would reduce rainful, and increase the chances of a drought.

We are completely doomed.

hmm..ok..but wouldnt the water produced remain in the water cycle and go back to th esky as steam when it's heated up by the sun?

 

[snorri]

Someone on the BBC news this morning suggested they should bring the snow down from Scotland in tankers.....

They obviously did not consider the disaster that would result if the refrigeration plant broke down on the tanker.

 

[MacB]

They obviously did not consider the disaster that would result if the refrigeration plant broke down on the tanker.

they just have to drive really fast before it melts

 

[slowmotion]

hmm..ok..but wouldnt the water produced remain in the water cycle and go back to th esky as steam when it's heated up by the sun?

I wasn't being entirely serious, but you are correct, I think. The sum total of water remains the same...it's just that it is in an awkward/distant place. I don't know where the stuff is stashing itself away at the moment. It could be growing ice sheets in parts of Antarctica or lochs in Scotland. It's a worry.

 

[machew]

I can't wait for the day when water becomes the new oil and then Wales will become the new Saudi.

We love all the welsh water which is gravity fed to Birmingham from the Elan Valley

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

What we need is a raining champion.

 

[slowmotion]

What we need is a raining champion.

How about Gene?

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[Maz]

I can't wait for the day when water becomes the new oil and then Wales will become the new Saudi.

From Riyadh to Rhayader...

 

[al78]

I think it's time that we started to incentivise population decline - maybe tax credits for people who don't have kids?

There is a bit about the effects of population decline on a nations economy here, can't say how accurate it is though (scroll down to Economic consequences).

Needless to say it seems to be (again) one of those situations where what is optimal for capitalism and what is optimal for environmental sustainability are diametrically opposite.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

I can't wait for the day when water becomes the new oil and then Wales will become the new Saudi.​

good plan...then that welsh woman on the one show will have to cover herself up except for 2 small eye slots

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I can't wait for the day when water becomes the new oil and then Wales will become the new Saudi.

It'll be good until someone decides Wales needs a "regime change".

 

[ASC1951]

The sum total of water remains the same...it's just that it is in an awkward/distant place.

Quite. As our American friends put it, "How the hell did our oil end up under their sand?"

 

[Doseone]

good plan...then that welsh woman on the one show will have to cover herself up except for 2 small eye slots

Alex is lovely. Orange, but lovely.

 

[GM]

Come and live in Ireland - no shortage of water here I can assure you.

Mrs GM comes from Northern Ireland, and reckons that the Irish have a solution when there's a water shortage, they simply dilute it!