Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 Think of the last time you were really thirsty and couldn't find anything to drink. World Water Day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edger Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 No doubt. Now that's a stressful scenario, to put it lightly.Suddenly, I feel fortunate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 i drink many cubic metres of water. mmmm cubic metres.shitty map though. the 'national' part of it is irrelevant. should show consumption relative to watersheds, freshwater storage, even regions etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 I'd like to see some of those sea monsters and old ships in the ocean too to make it a little more exciting.Go Water!!! It really doesn't get enough credit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timouse Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 a profould irony of this map is what people are paying for water. not having really scrutinized my water bill in a while, my prices might be out of whack, but i think that halton hills charges me $0.010 per m3. i would guess that lots of the pink and green areas are paying significantly more, particularly where big companies (cough cough vivendi) have set up pay as you go taps in the centre of otherwise unserviced areas. some books on water : "Water Wars" by Vandana Shiva "Blue Gold" by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ollie Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 I'd like to see some of those sea monsters and old ships in the ocean too to make it a little more exciting. I was hoping you were going to say "authentic". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothedShredder Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 I would of, but my 4 (er um, 6) years of Honors Geography makes me know better. And how not to spell or grammer. Where AD gets it, I'll never know... it was like he was raised by an English teacher or something. That would make sense... I was raised by bankers.Hey AD, what was our cartography professors name agan... Chris XXXX (king?) or something. I actually put in a sea dragon into lake ontario or something, and she was not impressed. Deep down though I think I rocked her world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AD Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 Christine Earl - I saw her the other day, she attended a presentation I was giving to a geomatics group. She seems well, she's still teaching. She hated me. Sea dragons belong on maps, IMHO. Magellan did it, why can't you or I?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 (edited) I'd like to see some of those sea monsters and old ships in the ocean too to make it a little more exciting.Go Water!!! It really doesn't get enough credit. You wanted something a little more like this? Edited March 22, 2007 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted March 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 That's such an odd picture on so many levels . Yeah, AD, I'm not totally convinced about the usefulness of that map, but I wanted to throw a picture up, and waffled between one of a glass of water and one I found from the UN, which is who's behind the link I'd also put up, and opted for the latter. You're absolutely right, though - geography is a huge piece of the complex puzzle. I think it does say something, though, about how the UN has to deal with the problems - piecemeal, by way of the geographic boundaries of its constituent nations; it has no more influence than that in terms of policy. Thailand and China seem, from the map, to be interesting extremes that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted March 22, 2007 Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 best books I ever read regarding the preciousness of water would still be Frank Herbert's Dune series good fiction... sand worms and vapor suits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Evil_Mouse Posted March 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2007 Good call . Imagine your only main of water through the day being that which was distilled out of your piss and sweat and which you drank through a tube off that suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted March 23, 2007 Report Share Posted March 23, 2007 That's such an odd picture on so many levels Here's some interesting info from where i found it: http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/22/whale-islands/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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