imagine your city ,predicting a water shortage by 2050,what would you do?

Question

have you ever imagIned having a water shortage how about this.
ok iMAGinE that the city you live in is predicting a shortage of water by the year 2050.as a concerned citizen you volenteer to serve as chairperson of the steering comitte to develope solutions for the problem .what would be your suggestions to the commitee?

Answer 1

Why is it so hard to understand that we live in an ecosystem? The water doesn't leave the planet. It flows down rivers into lakes and ponds. Or it's evaporated and then rained back down.

The best solution is to dig large reservoirs at the base of rivers and creeks thus making lakes full of water.

The ocean is full of water. Just distill the water from the saltwater and you've got all you need.

There are no problems, only solutions. (J.L.)

Answer 2

imagine the year 2050 it wont take that long. Im a canadian and i live by an abundance of water that is potable water. what would i do well number one it is called recycle our water. why are there still water toilets bieng sold and installed, all toilets should be compostable toilets. there should be a water meter on every outlet of water, user pay. and as far as parks playing fields they should not be watered, just for the simple fact that everytime i go by a park that is watering the lawn they also are watering sidewalks and roads. one of my solutions to the problem is high fines for miss use of water. if they dont pay ide shut their water off untill the fine is paid, with intrest. that is a harsh punishment but oh well. I have done a report the water consumption, it sure opened my eyes, and know im very conservative on the use of water. If you could get everybody to do simple changes in their daily lives there wouldnt be a problem. The question is how do you get everyone to make the very simple changes. Unfortunatly that is not going to happen. so the harsh punishment of shutting off their water i think just might work, along with water meters. IF you could make a water meter that would allow a daily consumption free of charge and anything beyond that would be billed. Any bill not being paid within 30 days then shut the water off.

Answer 3

The problem already exists along the Rio Grande. Elephant Butte reservoir is effectively empty. The "solutions" include buying up water rights from farmers, drilling for deep water that needs to be desalinated (still a very expensive proposition and a deal-killer for new subdivisions) and mutual lawsuits between New Mexico and Texas over who gets to use what's left. Upstream in Colorado you don't even have the right to use rainwater that falls on your own property. I live on the west side of the continental divide in the Zuni river watershed where the water rights lawsuit is about to retire its second generation of lawyers. New Mexico law does let me catch and use rainwater, which is sufficient for my needs as long as the summer monsoon doesn't fail. Local ranchers, though, have had to severely cull their herds, the animal rescue folks are overwhelmed with starving and abandoned horses. The short-term solution is to pray for the drought to break. We'll need a decade of above-average rainfall just to catch up. The only longer-term solution with any hope for cities in NM seems to be building the necessary infrastructure for sewage recycling.

Answer 4

We don't have to imagine that, we already have it here in St. Petersburg Florida. No matter how much rain we get, every year we have a water shortage. Our population has grown so much that the real estate itself is hard to buy. We are starting to build up, and no land to buy. A small piece of land here next door to me is selling for $200,000.00. The question is, where is the house? So do I imagine it, no I live it. Bottled water seems to be the norm around here.

Answer 5

I believe the total amount of fresh water is about 2 percent world wide on any given day and more and more people are being born to use it. They are wasting a large percentage of it too-lawns, washing cars, etc. The earth is heating up-thanks to us-global warming-and more of that fresh water will not be available to us-called evaporation. The chances of rain falling on land is less then into an ocean.
Stop wasting water in all areas is a good start.

Answer 6

Well, I live in Buenos Aires and we'll never suffer a water shortage since this city is upon the largest estuarium of the world.
Every day, enough drinkable water to suit the entire world goes to the sea.

Answer 7

Maybe people should stop worrying about green lawns in the middle of the DESERT! I mean i know this person that waters their lawn 3 times a day!! this is crazy. Before looking into getting more water maybe we should stop wasting so much. maybe rationing water per person. And stop using so much water on toilets.

Answer 8

Geez, what an elaborate question!
I guess I would put restrictions on each household for watering their lawns, filling up swimming pools, ect. Because that's where gallons and gallons are wasted for fruitless purposes.

Answer 9

it really wouldnt be that big of a deal except when it came to showering and flushing my toilet because i dont drink or use the city water to cook anyway - i guess i would hope that the stores kept supplying water!!!!

Answer 10

a) move to another town
b) find another source of reliable fluid
C) create water from air
d) make genetically modified water from hydrogen and oxygen