Should lawn sprinklers be outlawed nationwide? I think so.

[FelixDeCat]

Water is a premium worldwide.

Farmers have nearly drained major aquifers in the relentless pursuit of Farm Subsidies (profits by the government via crop insurance = insured profits for millionaires).

Most new homes have $5,000 sprinkler systems.

Businesses and governments insist on watering pavement...in the rain... despite regulations that say otherwise.

We can no longer afford the waste, fraud and abuse of wasting drinking water on lawns. It must stop.

 

[Mixolydian]

My water comes from the Great Lakes. No shortage of water here. But I don't water the lawn unless we go weeks without rain. I don't want to spend money on extra utilities if I don't have to.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I vote no because I like green grass.

 

[Puppies04]

My nation? No

Your nation? I don't really care.

 

[techs]

That's dumb. In many areas of the country water is in overabundance. If its not used for lawns it just either flows into the ocean or seeps into the ground anyway.

 

[ISAslot]

No. Floridan aquifer here. If we don't use it it just bubbles out and into the ocean anyway.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Water is a premium worldwide.

Businesses and governments insist on watering pavement...in the rain... despite regulations that say otherwise.

If something falls from the sky for free it's not really a "premium worldwide".

 

[FelixDeCat]

My water comes from the Great Lakes. No shortage of water here. But I don't water the lawn unless we go weeks without rain. I don't want to spend money on extra utilities if I don't have to.

Use a hose. Those will be allowed in the post sprinkler world.

I vote no because I like green grass.

Remember that when the last drop of water is used.

My nation? No

Your nation? I don't really care.

We are the world. We are the children.

 

[Vdubchaos]

I think we should outlaw people living and breading in areas where there is no water (or very little) or that live in countries that have 0 future and extreme poverty.

 

[mikeymikec]

OP, can you cite any (reputable) sources that state that there is or will be a worldwide water shortage?

I think we should outlaw people living and breading in areas where there is no water (or very little) or that live in countries that have 0 future and extreme poverty.

I like bread. Leave it alone. It doesn't take that much water to make anyway!

 

[FelixDeCat]

That's dumb. In many areas of the country water is in overabundance. If its not used for lawns it just either flows into the ocean or seeps into the ground anyway.

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/huge...-8-states-quickly-being-tapped-out-8C11009320

Huge aquifer that runs through 8 states quickly being tapped out.

(due to over irrigation, wasteful watering, fraud, abuse and corruption no doubt)

Using current trends in water usage as a guide, the researchers estimate that 3 percent of the aquifer's water was used up by 1960; 30 percent of the aquifer's water was drained by 2010; and a whopping 69 percent of the reservoir will likely be tapped by 2060. It would take an average of 500 to 1,300 years to completely refill the High Plains Aquifer, Steward added.

 

[Vdubchaos]

OP, can you cite any (reputable) sources that state that there is or will be a worldwide water shortage?



I like bread. Leave it alone. It doesn't take that much water to make anyway!

I meant breed

Sorry teach

 

[FelixDeCat]

If something falls from the sky for free it's not really a "premium worldwide".

Sometimes it doesnt fall at all. Sometimes for months at a time. That condition is referred to as a drought. Droughts persist and underground water that has taken millions of years to accumulate is being drained at alarming rates for the sake of VANITY and obesity.

:'(

 

[Mixolydian]

FWIW even though my water comes from Great Lakes, we still have watering restrictions during the summer. No outside watering between 10a-5pm.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Sometimes it doesnt fall at all. Sometimes for months at a time. That condition is referred to as a drought. Droughts persist and underground water that has taken millions of years to accumulate is being drained at alarming rates for the sake of VANITY and obesity.

:'(

The water on earth is a closed system. It doesn't run out, no matter how it's used to water lawns. Is your point that taking water out of the earth and sprinkling back onto the earth causes the water to disappear? I can't tell if you're trolling or if you really are that stupid. Please clarify.

 

[JimKiler]

Water is a premium worldwide.

Farmers have nearly drained major aquifers in the relentless pursuit of Farm Subsidies (profits by the government via crop insurance = insured profits for millionaires).

Most new homes have $5,000 sprinkler systems.

Businesses and governments insist on watering pavement...in the rain... despite regulations that say otherwise.

We can no longer afford the waste, fraud and abuse of wasting drinking water on lawns. It must stop.

So instead of banning water use when not needed, i.e. using a water sensor you want to ban them altogether. Should we ban cars too because of DUI's?

 

[RagingBITCH]

So instead of banning water use when not needed, i.e. using a water sensor you want to ban them altogether. Should we ban cars too because of DUI's?

Exactly. A $50 water sensor on a sprinkler system solves the issue.

 

[KMFJD]

http://www.takepart.com/article/2013/08/14/fracking-strains-water-supplies-oil-or-water

The people of Barnhart, a tiny West Texas community near San Angelo, are certainly paying attention. Thanks to fracking's outsized water demands, the town well has gone dry. The town's water crisis brings to mind another old saw: "The prospect of being hanged focuses the mind wonderfully." In Barnhart, where a severe and lingering drought already had put a strain on the water supply, minds are focused these days, though not so wonderfully. A recent story in the Guardian noted that ranchers have had to dump their herds, farmers have lost their crops and residents are being forced to live with water rationing. In addition, the area aquifer is being strained. Still, the oil industry continues to demand water, and those with water on their land are still willing to sell it.Every month, oil and gas companies dispose of 290 million barrels of wastewater from fracking. That's the equivalent of 18,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools, Luke Metzger of Environment Texas points out. That's water that can never be used again - in a drought-debilitated state, no less. At least partial solutions are possible, including mandatory recycling, saline or brackish water use and waterless fracking, but Texas lawmakers, for the most part, have allowed the industry to have its way.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/texas-water-shortage-082113

Town places restrictions on residents water usage, yet fracking continues , eventually the town is out of water.

 

[Hugo L.]

I would prefer if such systems were rigged to re-use rainwater.

 

[Imp]

"Fresh" water is a premium. The money and energy it takes to treat the shit so you can drink it out of the tap, only to have it sprayed into the ground is a travesty. But people like green shit and the places that have water shortages actually do something about it locally (e.g. Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas).

Once someone figures out cheap desalination, all bets are off... Damn salt.

 

[waggy]

I would prefer if such systems were rigged to re-use rainwater.

agree. but in some areas that is against the law too

 

[bignateyk]

"Fresh" water is a premium. The money and energy it takes to treat the shit so you can drink it out of the tap, only to have it sprayed into the ground is a travesty. But people like green shit and the places that have water shortages actually do something about it locally (e.g. Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Texas).

Once someone figures out cheap desalination, all bets are off... Damn salt.

Middle East has cheap desalinization figured out. I can buy a bottle of desalinated water for $0.25. "Spring" water costs like $2 a bottle here.

The desalinization wrecks the ecosystem though because they just pump all the brine back out and it kills everything.

 

[waggy]

The water on earth is a closed system. It doesn't run out, no matter how it's used to water lawns. Is your point that taking water out of the earth and sprinkling back onto the earth causes the water to disappear? I can't tell if you're trolling or if you really are that stupid. Please clarify.

lol

 

[TheUnk]

The water on earth is a closed system. It doesn't run out, no matter how it's used to water lawns. Is your point that taking water out of the earth and sprinkling back onto the earth causes the water to disappear? I can't tell if you're trolling or if you really are that stupid. Please clarify.

But it evaporates man.. Into space man.. Save the earth man.. Man..

 

[bignateyk]

The water on earth is a closed system. It doesn't run out, no matter how it's used to water lawns. Is your point that taking water out of the earth and sprinkling back onto the earth causes the water to disappear? I can't tell if you're trolling or if you really are that stupid. Please clarify.

While technically what you say is right, it's an incredibly selfish and ignorant view.

The colorado river, snake river, and others are being pumped dry by agriculture and homes in the mid-west. This is destroying the ecosystems around it.

Also, if everybody upstream uses all the water in the river, then everybody downstream is going to die of thirst. Just because it's a "closed system" doesn't mean you can use it however you want with no repercussions to others or the environment.