Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 12190200)

One of their money saving suggestions; spend just ten minutes in the shower. Turns out the mother normally spent 45 minutes in the shower!! She had long hair, but even then ......

Originally Posted by Steerpike (Post 12190127)

I"ve spent the past year or two reading a lot about water in the western US and your statement is not without foundation. From what I understand, Texas is very dependent on the Ogallala aquifer (maybe north/west Texas) and it's being depleted quickly, and there's not much that can be done to replenish it. It took 15,000 years to fill. There's an unfunded $18 billion plan on the books to pump water uphill from the Missouri River, but that is not likely to happen.

This is a great article that sums up the problem: What Happens to the U.S. Midwest When the Water's Gone? .

I suspect water (lack thereof) will be a far bigger issue facing the US and developing nations than climate change itself; climate change just happens to make the situation even worse.

The US should also cut down on it's use of ethanol.

Another great article about aquifers, this one more focused on California:
If You Think the Water Crisis Can't Get Worse, Wait Until the Aquifers Are Drained

Originally Posted by mrken30 (Post 12190247)

It appears that one way to conserve water is to eat less meat. the article states that a single quarter-pound hamburger requires about 460 gallons of water to raise and process the beef. That's a lot of water for a $5 burger.

Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 12190200)

There was one of those consumer reality shows on the BBC last night, they were helping a family with children in Glasgow to save money on regular expenditures, phone contracts, which laundry detergent, that sort of thing.

One of their money saving suggestions; spend just ten minutes in the shower. Turns out the mother normally spent 45 minutes in the shower!! She had long hair, but even then ......

Originally Posted by Jsmth321 (Post 12190207)

Even though we are in a temperate rainforest and get nearly 5 feet of rain per year on average our summers tend to be dry so we get annual water restrictions that at times are stricter then what I have seen in places like Phoenix or Los Angeles.

Those desert regions need to stop wasting so much water on things like grass.

Originally Posted by mrken30 (Post 12190233)

I hate that airline continually change arrival times of flights. My flight has changed from 4 pm to 11 am to now 2pm. Also the departure time has moved up to 1 pm from the original 3:30 pm.

Originally Posted by robin1234 (Post 12190200)

One of their money saving suggestions; spend just ten minutes in the shower. Turns out the mother normally spent 45 minutes in the shower!! She had long hair, but even then ......

Originally Posted by mrken30 (Post 12190653)

The signs obviously got eaten

Originally Posted by tom169 (Post 12190668)

Greedy buggers

Originally Posted by Sugarmooma (Post 12190754)

People who leave their dogs out in the back yard all night.

If I can hear the constant barking and I'm across the road I'm sure as hell they can hear it even louder as it is barking right by their back door.

Take the poor animal inside you morons!

Originally Posted by Sugarmooma (Post 12190754)

People who leave their dogs out in the back yard all night.