Have you ever thought about this scenario?
2006-08-11 04:58:35 · 7 answers · asked by grapeshenry 4 in Environment
There was a movie made about this which was Canadian and probably not seen by any Americans. Pretty much we were about to be invaded in the movie.
2006-08-11 05:12:20 · update #1
Four fifths of the world's surface is covered with water. I doubt that anyone will be running out of it in the future. The US has a very long shoreline compared to that of Canada, and don't forget the great lakes. Technology, in the form of desalinization plants, pumping stations, and other logistics infrastructure, could be implemented to effectively eliminate the scenario you suggest.
2006-08-11 05:07:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, it's like asking, what if the earth stopped turning? It's just not a possible scenario.
There are areas of the US where fresh water is somewhat scarce, such as the Southwest. However, it rains quite a bit in many parts of the US. I'm from Pennsylvania, and we get a lot of rain. Worse comes to worse, we could ship water out west.
2006-08-11 12:03:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In that unlikely scenario I can tell you what would happen. The US would invade Canada or any other country they needed to to take what they wanted by force. Because they are the world's biggest schoolyard bullies.
2006-08-11 12:18:13 · answer #3 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Desalination - There are over 7,500 plants running world wide. Good read on my source link. The next question should then be what do you do with all of the extra salt? A lot of it is pumped back into the ocean which can't be good for it.
2006-08-11 12:41:08 · answer #4 · answered by OT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Trouble is the water supply comes from many sources: rainwater, freshwater ponds, resevoirs/dams, underground aquifers, etc Impossible that we'd have zero rainfall and zero ground water.
2006-08-11 13:22:48 · answer #5 · answered by Funchy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have so many sources of water that it could never happen. In many municipalities the water is recycled and the same water is used over and over again.
2006-08-11 12:05:35 · answer #6 · answered by Joe K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no... impossible.
i mean i know bush is bad.. but he's not that much in control.
we're not that wasteful if we run out of water we'll other countries will follow.. cuz when it's that bad there's something unrelated to our politics involved.
we run out of water.... that's it!
all over for not just us.
doesn't see it happening... not in the next 100,000,000 years.
2006-08-11 12:04:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋