I am calling on the best and the brightest to help fix the plagues of humanity. In this case, we need to solve the freshwater problem. Political fighting over water resources is happening not only in the US, but across the globe. By 2050, there could be over 9 billion people on Earth, and not nearly enough water.

I am encouraging all Dollars members to tackle this problem. Try and search for the best way to approach desalination efforts. Try to come up with your own ideas that could increase the freshwater supply! Together we can make sure nobody goes thirsty!

If you're implying that humans are the problem, I suggest we find a way to either decrease the surplus population, or force feed teens birth control and have limits on breeding world-wide. These two solutions wouldn't be tolerated by any democracy, but in some places it works. As for the issue of freshwater it's self, US chemists have developed a solution to safely neutralize the sodium in salt water, creating freshwater. <---- A few starter thoughts

I wasn't suggesting that humans are the problem. Right now I'm looking into desalination efforts, and one effort I want to try and spearhead would be a microwave array in the Mojave Desert using an aqueduct to ferry saltwater from A to B.

I have a really expensive, risky, almost pointless idea! We could take ice.... From space. Off of asteroids, from moons of other planets, etc. H20. The only problem is getting the funds to collect it... and the time it'd take to get it here...

On a serious note, one of the simplest solutions is to pollute less. Another is taking the polluted rainwater and purifying it. Another is (And I remember reading somewhere that this has been successfully tested once) The collision of molecules in such a way that they form H20 particles, essentially creating pure water from elements in the surroundings.

Well, if that's the case we could just make ice by forcing condensation in cold mountainous areas. There was a project on the Discovery Channel back when I was in middle school where they used some sort of condensation technology to create rainclouds off the coast. Perhaps a similar tech could be used.

Oh, and the other thing. In regards to pollutants, the largest problem is when freshwater gets spilled into say, the ocean or a contaminated well and becomes salted. Unless you can flush out all that salt, it's undrinkable. Filtration doesn't get rid of it all without the use of multiple filters and the risk of clogging. Distillation has been the way to go for millennia, particularly for the individual. The real issue is the large scale, I suppose.

I think that conservation and self-discipline is still the best way to preserve fresh water. It's pretty idealistic, yes, but I think it's the best way anyhow.

Even if we had the technology and resources to increase the supply, if people still waste the available supply, it won't do any good at all.

But, I do think control of human reproduction would be a good countermeasure so that increase in world population can be slowed while we try to recuperate the supply of fresh water.

That's what I think... = =

You could always freshify salt water. All you need to do is fill a pot or something with salt water then put in in a much larger pot (a little bit of height but mostly just larger radius). Then put a tarp of some plastic or something over the bigger one, make sure it's transparent. Then either put it in the sun or heat it, as the saltwater evaporates the vapor is fresh water it then collects on the plastic and goes down to where the plastic is lower where it will precipitate filling the area there with fresh drinkable water

I typed that wrong, the salt water goes in the bigger pot, and u have to put a little bit of weight on the plastic over the smaller one to ensure in precipitates there.

If start spreding ideas of water conservation in schools it could make a big impact. I mean we did the same with recycling. So if anyone knows any EASY ways to conserve water post them and maybe we can make informative flyers and share them in our communities. Just a small idea.

If you're doing it right, you can get a good shower in about six minutes (though shaving does take longer) or even less than that. And if you're only shaving your face you can just do that in the sink.

Instead of going out and watering your plants, you can take a 2 Liter Bottle and get a top for it that is a long tube. You place the bottle upside down in your garden and it drips out, giving the plants just the right amount of water. Kind of like those plastic things you've seen on TV, but just, making your own.

Another gardening technique is misting the plants instead of full on watering. And only do it on even or odd days, not every day.

In any case, it's best to use water in off-peak hours, so that not everyone is using it at once. During the day, a lot of industrial services will be needing water, so try to stick to early morning or late evening. That also goes for washing your car. Which you shouldn't do in bright sunlight anyway because it can fuck up your paint.

When cooking, put the item you're cooking in the pot first, then fill the water level to just above the food level. That way you aren't using excess.

If you're doing dishes with the intent on putting them in the dishwasher anyway, then just give the dish a light spray in cold water, turn the water off, scrub the dish, lightly rinse again, then put it in the dishwasher.

Okay I'm gonna type something up tomorrow. Let's try to follow these rules too you guys. Little acts can make a big impact.

I blame corporations for this problem. So many people dont have water because corporations take their fresh drinking water, and sell it back to them and other people in the world. In India, water became more expensive than milk; a movement began, which led to marches in the streets and a boycott in bottled water. In Stockton, we almost had a similar problem, where our mayor teamed up with a water company to privatize our water. Everyone became extremely pissed off because the mayor didnt even ask us to vote. We eventually put out a petition and kicked the corporation out; today, I am happy to say, we have control over our own water :)

>>14 In regards to the Stockton Incident, you can bet your ass that water was being diverted south. A Similar plan is being spearheaded in Nevada.

When it gets right down to it, the problem is these metropolises that need incredible water needs. And that's why I'm pushing the whole desalination thing.

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