FillmoreSlim

So you work at home or in a small office? Unless you want your children to pay-per-flush and shower...and when water becomes more valuable than oil at least u can say you did your part.

The Global Water Crisis:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/755497.stm

Do your part for water conservation and only flush the toilet after youve pissed a few times.

<b>Household Water Use</b>
- Toilet: 40% of daily water use
- Bath and shower: 32% of daily water use
- Laundry: 14% of daily water use
- Dishwashing: 6% of daily water use
- Cooking and drinking: 5% of daily water use
- Bathroom sink: 3% of daily water use

- Three to 6 gallons of water are used for each toilet flush.
- Flush only when necessary. Don't use the toilet to dispose of cigarette butts or other trash. Every toilet flush is equivalent to 80 glasses of drinking water.
- Repair leaks. To determine if your toilet is leaking, add food coloring to the toilet tank water, and check the bowl in 15 minutes. If the water in the bowl is colored, you probably have a leak.
- Place a brick in your toilet tank.

Water facts and figures
International statistics

1.1 billion
The estimated number of people worldwide who lack access to clean drinking water.

2.4 billion
The estimated number of people worldwide who lack access to sanitation. Most are in Africa and Asia.

2 billion
The estimated number of people who depend on groundwater worldwide (about one-third of the world's population). Countries around the world face rapidly depleting groundwater resources, including parts of India, China, West Asia, the Arabian Peninsula, the former Soviet Union and the western United States.

About 80
The number of countries that had experienced serious water shortages by the mid 1990s. This makes up about 40 per cent of the world's population.

One-third
The proportion of the global population who live in countries with moderate-to-high water stress. Water stress occurs when water consumption exceeds 10 per cent of renewable freshwater resources.
West Asia faces the severest threat. More than 90 per cent of the population in the region lives under severe water stress.

Two-thirds
The proportion of the global population that is expected to be living in water stressed conditions in less than 25 years.

40%
The increase in global water use expected by 2020.

$30 billion
The projected cost per year of bringing poor people universal access to water by 2015.

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Amputate Your Head

the last thing I'm worried about is water.

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Spunky

Bla bla bla...You can't have Canadas water either

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FillmoreSlim

Oh yeah? Wait till NAFTA lawyers get ahold of it//

all your water belongs to US//

Selling Canada's water
Martin O'Malley and John Bowman

Canada lucked out in the global water sweeps. We are near the top of water-rich nations, trailing only Brazil, Russia and China.

Thanks to the replenishing cycle of rain and evaporation, the amount of water on Earth has remained the same over the past four billion years. Only in this generation has there been concern that we may be ruining our water supply. Of all the water on our planet, 97.5 per cent is sea water and three-quarters of the remaining 2.5 per cent is locked in polar ice caps. The tiny bit left over is drinkable.

Estimates of Canada's supply of fresh water vary from 5.6 per cent to nine per cent to 20 per cent of the world's supply, depending on how one defines "fresh water" ? whether it means "available," "usable," or merely "existing." One study says Canada has 20 per cent of the world's fresh water ? ranking it at the top ? but only nine per cent of "renewable" fresh water.

Whatever, Canadians consume 350 litres of water a day per capita, second only to the Americans as the most profligate wasters of water in the world. The average global citizen needs only between 20 and 40 litres of water a day for drinking and sanitation.

It has been said that water will be "the oil of the 21st century," or "liquid gold," and that it will cause wars between nations. Whatever happens with regard to global water, and the environmental, economic and political fallout, Canada will be a major player. Talks have intensified during the past few years on whether Canada should take advantage of its bountiful supply of water by selling it for profit ? like gas, oil and timber.

The House of Commons intends to hold televised hearings starting in September 2001 on "freshwater security" to examine the pros and cons of selling Canada's water to other countries. Canada sells bottled water to other countries, but shipments of bulk water are not allowed.

There is also the issue of whether, under the terms of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), water is a "vital resource" like the air we breathe, or a "commodity" to be sold and traded.

There is a sharp divide on what to do about Canada?s water.

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Spunky

Sure steal that as well...you bastard fucks take everything else

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buddyjuf

thats 30 billion well spent
fuckin george bush wanting more than that for war in iraq

Carrie

If you want your house smelling like old rancid piss go right ahead, but for me... I think I'll be a nasty water abuser, thanks.