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Watersheds may be a little too large to work well as administrative regions.
or go all in, and establish a world government. I think a single governing body is the only true way forward for humanity, if humanity is to move beyond earth and be a space faring civilization.
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how much is Coca-Cola[1][2] to blame for this. Afaik it has been the center of criticism in India for over a decade now: Coca-Cola operates 58 water-intensive bottling plants in India. In the southern Indian village of Plachimada in Kerala state, for example, persistent droughts have dried up groundwater and local wells, forcing many residents to rely on water supplies trucked in daily by the government. [1] https://…
The plants may be blamed for transferring water scarcity from places where the drinks are bought and drunk to the places where the bottling plants are operated, but not for creating water scarcity.
There have been a flurry of alarmists posts like these but somehow I cant wrap my head around how will we run out of water. I stay in Bangalore and some people do have the problem of water - but for the most part it doesnt seem to be an issue of 'lack' of water perse but mostly distribution issues. Bangalore has been having intermittent rains throughout the summers and even though few people use them now, but if situ…
Let me give the PoV from Hyderabad. Hyderabad gets water from mainly 3 sources; 1. Musi river water/Manjeera 2. the Large lakes like Hussain/Osmania Sagar etc. 3. ground water/borewells My apartment society in Gachibowli area, just ran of water for a few days back in June. The borewell just couldnt get the water. There is no lake around us. Getting the river water connection would be around Rs.15_00_0000. To add to t…
Is there a way to limit the size of these big cities? What if they start requiring a domestic visa process to let in the people from other states? Everyone wants a life of high standards of living which cities provide along with employment. If we do not limit the number of people who can get in, it will naturally result in whole population of India moving into these cities. This will result in people making wherever…
Maybe in the long term. In the immediate future, it would lead to massive economic recession due to labour shortages in high-employment areas and economic genocide in low-employment areas. The only way to redistribute employment might be gradual with economic incentives and disincentives. It also requires long-term thinking and implementation and it is difficult to imagine this in the Indian context.
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India does not have a water issue, they have a population issue, but it’s really hard to mange the population, so natural resources are being consumed beyond sustainability. This problem is not confined to India, it’s a problem with humanity. Nature is working on a correction.
But at least for this year, the climate also seems to have played a very big part in the issue:
https://weather.com/en-IN/india/monsoon/news/2019-06-03-indi...
The Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) revealed that more than 42% of the country’s area is abnormally dry, which is 6% more than that of the previous year.
... as many as 26 out of 36 meteorological subdivisions in India have recorded deficit rainfall. This is the second driest pre-monsoon that the country has witnessed ever since 1954.
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why do people tweet like this? It is impossible to follow. Like.. just write an article or a blog post instead. :/
But also, I actually like this form of communication. By the nature of the medium (one thought per tweet), you are forced to discard all superfluous details. Instead each tweet/thought must be a strong point. This is compared to a blog, where the only thing holding you back from adding fluff is your own intellectual discipline.
Can you explain why you find this impossible/discipline to follow?
I think the govt must stop factories, soda factories, mineral water companies taking ground water ASAP.
How many litres of water does it take to make a litre of mineral water? How does that compare with a kg of lettuce, or tomatoes, or beef? Bottled water has its problems, water use isnt really one of them.
Interesting question, I found this article[1] which says:
- for North American companies, it takes 1.39 liters to make one liter of water
- That's less than the global averages of a liter of soda, which requires 2.02 liters of water
- A liter of beer, meanwhile, needs 4 liters of water, wine demands 4.74 liters. Hard alcohol, it turns out, is the greediest, guzzling 34.55 liters of water for every liter
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/10/28/241419373/ho...