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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 11:45 AM Original message |
Water Is The New Oil |
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BadgerKid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 11:58 AM Response to Original message |
1. Not one day, but today; Coca-cola sells Dasani water. n/t |
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Ellis Wyatt (328 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 12:02 PM Response to Original message |
2. Coke & Pepsi |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 04:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Nestle too... |
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InternalDialogue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. From the New Yorker in October. |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 04:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Great article.Thank you |
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InternalDialogue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 10:17 PM Response to Reply #7 |
19. IIRC, the New Yorker article addresses irrigation pretty directly. |
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buddysmellgood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 04:21 PM Response to Reply #7 |
32. Consider this: The water table beneath the North China Plain |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
4. can't believe I'm the only one who has Recommended this thread n/t |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 05:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. And thank you for that |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. I think it is already in play. Like Israel and other places around the expanding |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 04:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. The Littani River |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 07:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. And Ariel Sharon said that if Lebanon took any more water-- |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 12:01 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. yes... |
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InternalDialogue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 05:08 PM Response to Original message |
10. RestoreGore, did you cross-post this to GD or GDP? |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 12:02 AM Response to Reply #10 |
25. What is GD and GDP? |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-02-06 10:21 AM Response to Reply #25 |
40. GD=General Discussion and GDP= GD Politics |
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Kerrytravelers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
11. "The Corporation" speaks of this very thing. |
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Lowell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
12. We suffer from a water shortage in Florida |
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thingfisher (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 06:09 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I remember seeing cowboy movies |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 12:00 AM Response to Reply #12 |
23. Yes, the choice between gold bars and our planet... |
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Auntie Bush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
14. That's why the filthy thief |
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YankeyMCC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
15. Kick and more good info |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 11:57 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. I will definitely take a look at these... |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
17. A distressing exchange on a local mailing list for Progressive Dems |
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whirlygigspin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 10:03 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. blue planet project is a good resource for this |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 11:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I know of this project and agree |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-02-06 10:34 AM Response to Reply #17 |
41. and thanks to Hanford, the Columbia will be nothing more than a radioactive |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Nov-30-06 11:48 PM Response to Original message |
20. This is a great program on water policy |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 12:05 AM Response to Original message |
26. Thank you for the recommendations... |
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Bullshot (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 07:01 AM Response to Original message |
27. I can never understand why people pay as much for bottled water as other beverages. |
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Triana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
28. I've been saying this for a few years now... |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 01:36 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Yes, so many have been saying this |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
29. Good site... |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
31. I own land over a valuable aquifer |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 04:50 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. That wouldn't be Maine by any chance, would it? |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 05:31 PM Response to Reply #34 |
35. Yup. |
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RestoreGore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 04:49 PM Response to Original message |
33. The myth that bottled water is better |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 05:45 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Right On. |
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Massacure (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-01-06 10:15 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. especially when it cost a couple cents a gallon to filter it yourself. |
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Mendocino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-02-06 09:03 AM Response to Reply #33 |
38. And all those plastic bottles made from oil, |
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formercia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-02-06 09:11 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Non biodegradable bottles |
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