Thread: Water Scarcity
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Old 03-08-2012, 11:53 AM   #8
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Originally Posted by starseed View Post
If 71% of the earth's surface is water, and we can easily turn salt water into drinking water if necessary, then I think there are far more pressing concerns than conserving water.
Water conservation is about preserving the amount of water resources available to certain areas, equally important to both natural ecosystems and human habitation and about the amount of energy that has to go into water purification, desalinization, processing, etc. and it's impact and cost.

Water scarcity doesn't mean that it's a rare substance on the entire planet that we are going to run out of.
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