Saboteur said:
So when's the mission to Titan to see if the water is drinkable?
I never said this environment is SEALED either, infact I mentioned finding another habitable planet in the future. But I don't think we'll get to one before we kill ourselves. But you missed that I guess...
I don't appreciate being talked to like I'm an idiot because the environment is in undeniable trouble. I wish you guys would've read my posts and comprehended them... Now we can't be friends.
I never said you said the environement is "sealed." I said "the poster" said that, to which one of your responses was "the Earth IS a closed system." I had treated you with nothing but respect. If you carry on this way, I will treat you like an idiot, because seem to behave like one.
Responses concerning the smoking of banana peels, incorrect comprehension of statement in English concring what someone else said, and lack of scientific concepts concerning a subject matter you are talking about, are not things of Genius. You have insulted me in two posts. Now I am done.
We can carry on to the subject at hand, and to the extent of water resource dangers.
I find it interesting that in some of the articles you had posted (the first few having nothing to do with the water cycle itself) that the economic "law of the commons" is favored over conservation by price mechanism.
I know, before our houses were charge for water use, I used a great deal more water. Since then I applied low pressure faucets, reduced my toilet capacity, and generally waste much less. Any Price mechanism, be it privatization or use taxation, can go great lengths toward reducing demand and consumption. When things are "free" at the point of delivery, common usage usually creates massive waste and destruction. "Public Ownserhsip" of the delivery infrastructure can also cause degredation as well. In fact, as noted in a couple of your posted articles, as much as 50% of water in some areas is lost to leaky pipes, and of course, governments "own" 95% of those pipes. Not to mention government subsidy of water use for agriculture, to the point of excess, and run off.
As a secondary concern regarding run-off government also subsidize fertilizers and pesticides, coupled with increase water usage by subsidy, the water is wasted, and pesticides and fertilizers pollute the waterways and water bodies. Not to mention government run water treatement facilities, or government prohibitions of ecological water treatement systems (marsh systems, as water treatment).