OMG...no water in town ????

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Sorry...

This post was not meant to be a platform for anything except for the plight of the folks in this town....
 
We have a lake northeast of us that serves 16,000 people in many small towns and between those towns. That lake is about empty even though we have had about double the rain fall in the state because the rain has been missing them. They are in the process of constructing a big long pipeline from Stillwater but even then that pipeline will only serve about 40% of their daily needs.

"The lake level has risen, but it’s still 10-feet below normal. If it drops five more feet, the association won’t be able to serve its customers anymore."

http://www.stwnewspress.com/local/x1938694114/VIDEO-Lone-Chimney-Lake-remains-dangerously-low
 
Big companies don't care about anyone but their stockholders, they'll even take your water.

How about a large city without water? It won't be long before there's another drought in Georgia. Atlanta's water supply comes from Lake Lanier. The basin itself is a very small area...it has to rain practically right on top of the lake to replenish it. A large part of Atlanta is the 'hood, it's going to get ugly when that many ignorant people can't get water.
 
goldfish65 said:
Big companies don't care about anyone but their stockholders, they'll even take your water.

How about a large city without water? It won't be long before there's another drought in Georgia. Atlanta's water supply comes from Lake Lanier. The basin itself is a very small area...it has to rain practically right on top of the lake to replenish it. A large part of Atlanta is the 'hood, it's going to get ugly when that many ignorant people can't get water.
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Yeah it's gonna be all Bush's and whitey's fault. Just watch and see.
 
Rob,don't forget those dasterdly oil companies using up all that water for fracking too.Water in the western U.S is worth more than gold.Go to Las Vegas which is basically Desert land and look at all the millions of gallons of water running in front of the Casino's for no other purpose than to attract people.I feel bad for those little towns running out of water cause they could have plenty if they paid whatever price it took to get it piped there.Trouble is, the average working man couldn't afford to buy it.
 
Frack that frackin frackin. It's the devil. I mean God forbid we do anything to create jobs.
 
...we are fighting against fracking tooth and nail locally...i have seen too many folks light they water out of the tap in fire....
 
Back in Time said:
Used a straw man to sneak your anti-fracking agenda in there didn't you.:hello2:
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Actually, I don't have an agenda and I didn't bring the topic up. However, I have seen what it does to the local area. We (in canada) have enough oil reserves where this process isn't really necessary....and I do like good water coming out of my taps.. Screw the pipeline going to the states since you guys don't seem to want it ....I would rather it come out east...which looks like what it is doing..

This has nada to do with a town running out of water...
 
I shut it down when they were talking about their wells and lakes going dry...it is bad enough when you water is shut off for a short time.

I have read about places like las vegas that all the water has to be piped in..

We are surrounded by clean, fresh water and our only threat is with pollution...

they do have a problem now... wonder what the solution will be..

Grassy
 
grassy said:
Screw the pipeline going to the states since you guys don't seem to want it ....I would rather it come out east...which looks like what it is doing..
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Actually most Americans support the notion, it's just our fearless leader getting in the way.
 
My bad...it wasn't meant to be a platform. I shall listen more closely ...
 
Bad Sport said:
Actually most Americans support the notion, it's just our fearless leader getting in the way.
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the press we get is that most folks in the US are are picketing against it and the POTUS is just supporting them...

Even with all the oil reserves we have in Canada, the Maritimes has to buy ours from foreign markets..how dumb is that ? In fact, one of our refiners is closing down as we speak.

ian.
 
grassy said:
the press we get is that most folks in the US are are picketing against it and the POTUS is just supporting them....

ian.
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That would be the LIBERAL press reporting on a few hundred protesters and say nothing about all the people who support the idea.
 
I don't understand the lack of foresight to create Nuclear Power Plants near the ocean and power Desalinization Plants - providing water from the ocean. The next temporary solution seems right in front of us. Expensive though. If France can create a 'standardized' Nuclear power plant and 'export' electricity, then we should be able to do it-but then again (barring a political thread change),,,, we also can't operate on a balanced budget. Crap crap crap.

(We make our own water with desalinization while out to sea, and some sort of algae grows in the tanks; best damn water you ever tasted/drank! They test it to verify it's safe as well.) {I am awaiting oldmanmopar to proof read my post:)}
 
greymouser7 said:
I don't understand the lack of foresight to create Nuclear Power Plants near the ocean and power Desalinization Plants - providing water from the ocean.
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Judging from TEPCO's problems in Japan I'd just as soon they didn't. Before you bash the Japs for their lack of foresight, that plant was designed by General Electric. They thought they had covered all the bases too, a fact which does nothing to increase my confidence in mankind's ability to forestall all circumstances.

Once you let a pissed off cat out of the bag, it's pure hell to get him stuffed back in.............
 
My brother in law, who has been an energy engineer says that nuclear power is the only commercially viable way to go. Wind and solar are still not commercially viable and are just "feel goods" for the general public. I heard on CBC months ago that there is a gent in the US playing around with a product like uranium that was used in WW2. It has the same power producing qualities like uranium but it doesn't have the nasties like uranium. haven't heard anything else but my fingers are crossed.

For those that are gung ho on windmill power. Putting aside the effect they have on wildlife, humans and are mechanical equipment with a useful life of under 20 years i can give you some info on ours in our province,

We run 2 rates here..regular and off hours. Our high use rates cost us 17 cents a Kw hour. That rate is based on all costs with a profit margin worked in. Compare this with the .49 cents a Kw hour that our power company is paying for 'windmill" power ....with all costs and a cost of renewal per unit, I suspect that the consumer cost would be well over a dollar an hour..
 
I know this isn't the political forum, and I don't want to start a war in here, but, I have to ask...Why is everyone so afraid of nuclear power? The plants that have gone awry were all designed and built in the 60's. I think we've come a-ways, technologically, since then. (insert car analogy here) France gets 85% of their electric power from nuclear, and has for sometime now, with no accidents.

OMC....checked the front brakes on the Dart on the weekend...it has them.

I'll stop here before I get told to.
 
65Val said:
I know this isn't the political forum, and I don't want to start a war in here, but, I have to ask...Why is everyone so afraid of nuclear power? The plants that have gone awry were all designed and built in the 60's. I think we've come a-ways, technologically, since then. (insert car analogy here) France gets 85% of their electric power from nuclear, and has for sometime now, with no accidents.

OMC....checked the front brakes on the Dart on the weekend...it has them.

I'll stop here before I get told to.
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The waste is the problem, not the plants themselves. It's either store it onsite, basically forever, which is what is currently biting the Japs on the hind end due to leaky tanks, {Fed nuke facility in Oregon too btw, nothing lasts forever} or transport it to a salt dome/mine and store it there which is risky.
 
If they ever get effective at putting things in space through a civilian agency, the solution is to send it into the sun. Our rockets in my line-of-work take payloads past 200 miles high with out any incidents-launched from within the sea. They have hundreds of left over older generation rockets (missiles) that they could use if they wanted to as well. There is also the Pegasus system.
 
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