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conserve water.

#1: Shallyn (shallyn) on Nov 28, 2008

lol! Cute!

Loved it! Nice title...kept me guessing!

LOL... I thought that you were saying "please be green," hoping that when you turned on the tap that the water would be green when it came out! :-)

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No, you are out of your mind. You are the one who wanted green water. LOL

If you don't like veggies, maybe green water would work the same way and then you could want green water.

ummm if you want to conserve water then you really should fix that leak.

lol adam and m2. :p gave me a good laugh before bed. :)
nice puzzle and I agree Jota.

I like it!

Perhaps it should've been drawn in green.

The number of Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms on the Earth is basically the same as it always was. It is impossible to 'waste' water. We live in a closed system. Water evaporates, forms clouds, rains, and repeats. If that weren't true, we would have run out a long, long time ago. Another product of a liberal education, no doubt, but at least you feel better.

Clean water, however ...

Right on Byrdie!

Thanks! I had a liberal education but that was just the type of college I went to and had nothing to do with my political persuasion.

Potable water (clean) can be limited, despite Mr. William's opinion. He also omits the fact that water can be "banked," that is "stored" in places where it can not be accessed as "usable" water. I forget the percentage that people like to quote but the majority of the human body is water. As the population increases then so does the amount of water both consumed and "stored" (for lack of a better term) in the human body. As a result, less is available. I'm certain other examples can be cited.

I don't believe there's anything "liberal" about that.

i made one in april 2010, didn't see this before

Great minds ...

I agree with Martin to some extent. Clean water is a very limited resource.

Most water on the earth is salty. Only 2.75% of our water is freshwater. Two-thirds of that is frozen in glaciers and 1/4 is groundwater. 1/50,000 is surface water.

That is a lot of water. If all the people on the earth were squeezed dry of their average 40L each, that would create a puddle of 240,000,000,000L of water. That's 1km x 1km x 1/4km deep. That seems like a lot, but you'd need 6,833 of those puddles to fill Lake Ontario. Only a few of the eleven Finger Lakes would be smaller than that puddle.

That is not to say that there is a limitless supply, however. We obviously cannot take 100% of these sources, or the "natural" world would die. In fact, we can take only a tiny portion without disrupting the ecology.

There is also the fact that we "dirty" the water with our use. Many pollutants can be cleansed either naturally or through a sewage treatment, but much of the water is released untreated. Many pollutants are measured in the particles-per-billion. Thus a few gallons of nasty can potentially pollute a billion gallons of water.

Usage is also always increasing. Much effort is spent trying to get residential customers to become more efficient, but the reality is that business (such as farming and industry) uses the lion's share. It is, after all, the universal solvent.

So, while it's no excuse to *waste water* at home, we need to get farms and businesses to conserve if we really want to make a difference.

WOW! Thanks!

cute and good message!

Thanks Gabriel.

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