permaculture

[Marimike6@cs.com]

I'm fascinated by this talk of commoditizing water.

This is inevitable when it comes to desalinization and such schemes. They 
cost money. Such "new water" is like any other commodity, and a worthwhile 
venture investment.

I have deep moral qualms, though, about anyone selling their fossil water-- 
as Michigan tried to do several years ago. They were planning to sell access 
to 
their aquifer to Nestle so it could be bottled and sold, until people found 
out and the popular clamor killed what was virtually a done deal. A good 
thing, 
too.

In the US and across the world, aquifers are being depleted at a much faster 
rate than replenishment. This fossil water is exactly comparable to oil 
reserves. People who sell it are short term rich and long term fools. IMO.

BTW there is a reall nifty method now being explored of desalinating sea 
water by means of a simple long tube. It holds some promise as being an 
affordable 
way to get out of the water crash we might otherwise be headed for later this 
century.

http://wrf.curtin.edu.au/projects/projectfour.html

Before parking your life savings with Woodside Hydrocarbon,  remember that it 
might not work out according to rosiest projections. Remember when hydrogen 
was going to be the next sure thing? We're not quite there yet.