I recall an old Jonathan Winters routine where he’s an indian. He comes to a river and stoops to take a drink. Then he rises and says “Hmmm! Buffalo upstream”!
We have the tech to build desalinization plants all along our coasts, but don’t do it. We have the tech to create an Interstate Aqueduct System, along the lines of the Interstate Highway System, to move water from regularly flooded regions to those where water is scarce, but we don’t do it. Fun fact – California did not build water storage facilities because the environmentalists insisted that the drought was the “new normal”, and that it would never end. As usual, their predictions were bogus and so millions of gallons that could have been captured were not.
Watcher over 5 years ago
From blue to green in one summer.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace over 5 years ago
Improves the taste.
Mordock999 Premium Member over 5 years ago
Ha. Just WAIT until someone invents the concept of “water rights.” Then the REAL B*Tching and Moaning will begin……, ;)
Enter.Name.Here over 5 years ago
Get out! Fish peed in there!
No worries, mates, Earth has it’s own evaporative water filtration system (rain) to keep generating fresh water, so no worries.
Skeptical Meg over 5 years ago
Also air. Now you’re really in trouble.
mrcooncat over 5 years ago
My understanding is that astronauts drink their recycled pee all the time … not a very palatable thought.
Troglodyte over 5 years ago
Way to pi$$ off the fellas!
asmbeers over 5 years ago
In a very real sense, you have enjoyed water that at one time was dinosaur pee.
Doug Taylor Premium Member over 5 years ago
We are stardust, we are golden
We are billion year old carbon
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden
sandpiper over 5 years ago
Never, EVER refill your coffee pot downstream from where the horses drink.
assrdood over 5 years ago
Seems like you’re always downstream from somebody’s herd.
rickseg over 5 years ago
I recall an old Jonathan Winters routine where he’s an indian. He comes to a river and stoops to take a drink. Then he rises and says “Hmmm! Buffalo upstream”!
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 5 years ago
I will remember that when I flush the toilet. Thanks. phooey…
Zebrastripes over 5 years ago
Ewww….just EWWWWW!
micromos over 5 years ago
So where should we get our water to drink from, the rain barrell?
Colorado Expat over 5 years ago
Why do residents of the Eastern slope of the Colorado Rocky Mountains quietly grin as they flush?
Texas is downstream.
KEA over 5 years ago
let’s not even get into recycled air and who that’s been in before…
Nick Danger over 5 years ago
We have the tech to build desalinization plants all along our coasts, but don’t do it. We have the tech to create an Interstate Aqueduct System, along the lines of the Interstate Highway System, to move water from regularly flooded regions to those where water is scarce, but we don’t do it. Fun fact – California did not build water storage facilities because the environmentalists insisted that the drought was the “new normal”, and that it would never end. As usual, their predictions were bogus and so millions of gallons that could have been captured were not.
Ray over 5 years ago
“Water? Fish p1$$ in it!” – attributed to W. C. (no pun intended) Fields.
UlfPeterLangenbach over 5 years ago
Now we know why Wiley hates water so much.
(By the way, I wonder whether beer had been invented as a sanitary replacement for water – it definitely has been used as such for centuries.)