The Future is Drying Up

Thanks for the informative read, John R. Water is precious.

There was a film about water (and lack of it around the world) last year. I still remember it everytime I run water.

Synthetic water!

Georgia is in pretty bad shape...noticed this on my trip--fashioned my flies to look like little bottles of Dasani.

Keep your eye on companies & ETFs who deal in water (but watchout for scams). Water just may be the new "gold" of the future.



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Keep your eye on companies & ETFs who deal in water (but watchout for scams). Water just may be the new "gold" of the future.

it already is. bottled water costs more per gal. than gasoline.

"...bottled water costs more per gal. than gasoline...."



And Starbucks costs more than bottled water.

Ya gotta wonder about people....

Georgia is in pretty bad shape...noticed this on my trip--fashioned my flies to look like little bottles of Dasani.

Keep your eye on companies & ETFs who deal in water (but watchout for scams). Water just may be the new "gold" of the future.

I was refilling my water bottles from my tap--I have wonderful well water. Now...?

I don't want to throw away a gazillion bottles, so I guess I'll go buy the 1-gallon jugs of water.

"...bottled water costs more per gal. than gasoline...."



And Starbucks costs more than bottled water.

Ya gotta wonder about people....

Good thing I don't drink 33 Gallons a week of coffee, like my truck does gas. I've always found the drinking "choose beverage here" comparison to gas a bit spurious. Quit washing hair..shampoo is downright outrageous by the same method.

Water has always been a scarce commodity - we just aren't as aware of the problem here as they are in other places, like out West.

I keep waiting for the lightbulbs to go on/the water supply to become an issue here. It's great that many planned neighborhoods require "native vegetation" but it misses the point when they then also install 24/7 irrigation systems.

Most of the sprinklers I see do more watering of the pavement then the plants and there are some major violators whose sprinklers are always on - to the extent I don't bother to use my washer fluid spray because I know if one location doesn't clean my windshield for me, the next one will!

"Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call. Don't stand in the doorways, don't block up the halls. For he who gets hurt, will be he who stalls...Oh. he times they are a changing..." B. Dylan , 1964.

EVOO, Jack Daniels, Pom Juice all really high comparitively for now anyway. This is the driest summer I've seen in a couple decades living in Tennessee. It's raining all week off and on. Thank you Jesus. It is also starting to cool down this week, first days with 60's for highs coming Wed. I think this good rain may be too late for a couple of my trees though. No one, except for those with sprinkler systems and some of them too because of restrictions, had any grass this summer, barely any flowers either. Farmers were having to find alternative water accesses to water their cattle. I hope next summer is a lot better, I mean wetter.

I must live in some sort of weird fantasy world.... You all are depressing!

Wanting to address a problem and make folks stop wasting before it becomes an emergency isn't depressing...............dry areas where I used to have snowball fights in August and be walking on iced over lakes when I was younger is depressing!

EVOO, Jack Daniels, Pom Juice all really high comparitively for now anyway. This is the driest summer I've seen in a couple decades living in Tennessee. It's raining all week off and on. Thank you Jesus. It is also starting to cool down this week, first days with 60's for highs coming Wed. I think this good rain may be too late for a couple of my trees though. No one, except for those with sprinkler systems and some of them too because of restrictions, had any grass this summer, barely any flowers either. Farmers were having to find alternative water accesses to water their cattle. I hope next summer is a lot better, I mean wetter.

If the weather does not relent, we will all be subjected to Sahara-like, dry, extremely cakey brownies.

I must live in some sort of weird fantasy world.... You all are depressing!

Yes. The truth is very depressing. I don't dwell on it either, but unfortunately, the smaller the world gets, the quicker it is going to have its trickle down (no pun here) effect on all of us...

I must live in some sort of weird fantasy world.... You all are depressing!

Perk up! Don't mind me. It's all good as long as you had some rain. You wouldn't really notice the drought unless you actually lived in it. I think Sumner county TN may have broke a lot of drought/ heat records nationally this year. The rain is actually so and wonderful right now. I hope it rains all week long. The drought was a weird kind of world too, especially durung the record 106 degree heat wave too. It was like Lizard World.
Reptilian-Humanoid Render

Sullivan County TN can whip up on Sumner County TN

Don't make me have to...

;-)

That's pretty over there I've heard. Has the drought been as bad there I wonder?

I thought we were going to die from drowning due to sea level rise, and now I learn there's not going to be enough water

Anybody got money for a desalinization plant

Don't make me have to...

;-)

That's pretty over there I've heard. Has the drought been as bad there I wonder?

Yes, but everyone there is high on Eastmann Chemical plant fumes so they don't notice. If you're thirsty, you go to Pals for a monster sweet tea.

Yes, but everyone there is high on Eastmann Chemical plant fumes so they don't notice. If you're thirsty, you go to Pals for a monster sweet tea.

I am from Sullivan County and have had many sweet tea's from Pal's.

I my tea! Are there any mountain streams around there? Is that next to Knox county? A lot of creeks are dried up around here.

I am from Sullivan County and have had many sweet tea's from Pal's.

frenchy fries and chipped ham sandwich would make a good last meal

Wanting to address a problem and make folks stop wasting before it becomes an emergency isn't depressing...............dry areas where I used to have snowball fights in August and be walking on iced over lakes when I was younger is depressing!

Good point but you all are still depressing. Not trying to be mean just trying to lighten this crowd up every once in awhile.