36 States To See Water Shortages Within 5 Years: Report

one more reason to discontinue waterboarding. obviously, appealing to a sense of morality doesn't work with the neocons. they don't seem to have that sense.

When they can get tomorrows weather right I will consider their 5 year forecasts !!!

... oh and I'm glad other's pointed out that the idiot-in-chief has invested and has plans to horde one of the main fresh aquifers in South America!!

Water is the next oil.

Unless we, the People wake up now !!!

And make sure our public works and government is focused on creating long range plans for the enevitable!

This ain't rocket science folks. No matter what you believe -- Global Warming is happening ... we can debate the cause ... or realize that it is a natural cycle of Mother Earth and maybe we helped it along or not .. but the bottom line is it *is* happening ... and that means that areas that today rely upon fresh water from run off from melting glaciers ... and our current weather patterns will be in for future shock when these change!

UNLESS WE DEAL WITH IT NOW !!!

I'm sorry but I have no patience for Water Shortages on the Planet Earth!

The planet is covered in H2O.

OK, yes most of it is salinated. But com'on, water, unlike OIL, is truly a necessity for us hairless apes.

Great civilizations have risen and fallen on the ability to acquire, maintain and supply fresh water to it's populace.

So, again, I say - on a planet that is actually blue when seen from outter space -- it makes me sick to my stomach to hear pathetic whiny excuses about the cost, the labor, the energy, etc ... associated with harnessing one of the most plentiful resources on our Planet!

Given the alternative -- it would seem to me that we should be exploring ways to ensure that we put our efforts into providing for the real need to deal with the need for water!!!

For crying out loud -- the idiot-in-chief, has had no compunction about putting our nation in debt to the tune of 2.5+ TRILLION DOLLLARS for an illegal, needless WAR ....

How could that 2.5+ TRILLION been spent to ensure that our infrastructure and need for water and health care been better redistributed? Hmmmmm.... ??

Again, it makes me fuming mad to hear the whining excuses about -- oh, desalination cost to much, or it's not feasible, or what-the-f-ever ... but -- hey, let's spend several trillion on a freaking WAR !!??

CoM'on America - we can truly recapture the best of our what we were ... we carved the Panama Canal, TVA was built in the Tennessee to deal with flooding and supply energy to rural areas, we went to the moon, heck, Las Vegas is in the middle of a desert yet they've dealt with the whole water issue?! Not to mention, let's look at history, the Roman Empire built aqueducts how many miles long to supply Rome with water? ... we have the ability to solve this problem !!

But do we have the leadership? or the WiLL?

Com'on. Water Shortages on Planet Earth?!?
JezusHJimeny ... that's absurb.

This is the scariest thing I've read in years. Instead of this negative babble, let's have some suggestions how we are going to get along with less water.

Let them drink wine!

With democrats pissing and moaning and crying all the time our water supply will continually be recycled !

All it takes to realize the scale of water being extracted from the Western Aquifers is to fly over west KS, OK, and chunks of TX. All those dandy green crop circles are right smack dab in the middle of former scrub and shortgrass prairie.

Or,... fly over Western Arizona and note the swath of green next to what used to be the Colorado River. That river really doesn't reach the Gulf of Californina any more. It all goes to crops, or gets diverted to Arizona and California towns.

Most of these states already are having water issues. They just haven't realized it yet.

The rust belt will be looking better, and better in only a decade or so. At least they have some actual water in Michigan and Wisconsin,...

Does anyone know which 14 states still have plenty of water? Or which countries will benefit from having enough water to sustain its population? I want to invest there.

"We've hit a remarkable moment," said Barry Nelson, a senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council. "The last century was the century of water engineering. The next century is going to have to be the century of water efficiency."

um, yeah, just like we knew where we were headed in the 1970's with the Oil Crisis and we did so much to become more energy efficient.

The NAFTA agreement stipulates that Canada MUST NEVER cut back on the amount of water sent to the US, even if Canada needs that water for it's own purposes. I can foresee a time when America will be occupying Ottawa in the same manner they are now occupying Baghdad.

This can't be true. The trollies told us that climate change is a a hoax - a conspiracy of world scientists against something or the other. I think it was to discredit our Fuhrer Bush.

Can Perrier help out?

Be sure to thank your local real estate developers before they board the plane for
the Caymans...

I've been thirsty, really really thirsty, even I would attack Iraq if that was the only way I could get oil, I mean , water.

The Neo-Cons have a plan, they will bring deomcracy to the Pacific Ocean.