2007 Trends in Issues Concerning The Flow of Water
One of the most important flows of any civilization is water.
Of course this is no modern secret and if you'll recall the Greek philosopher Plato had talked about the City of Atlantis and we all know the Roman Empire had an entire network of aqueducts.
Even on the North American continent the Anastazi Indians built their cliff dwellings in canyon walls with the water running through the middle.
Other nearby Indian tribes built hundreds of miles worth of aqueducts, which were later cemented over and even still used to this day in Arizona.
Today in America as the population increases we see issues with droughts and overtaxing of fresh water supplies.
In the future other strategies will need to be deployed such as desalination.
Long-term droughts in some regions pit farmers against large cities and we know people in the city need water to live and food to eat.
Another issue on the horizon is with growing our own fuel to help break America's addiction to Middle Eastern Foreign Oil.
We cannot grow corn for Ethanol Production without water to grow the crops and use in the refineries (8 gallons in refinery to make one gallon of fuel).
We will need perhaps an over all strategy, such as Genetically Modified Crops which use less water to grow, desalination, better water retention reservoirs and upgraded aqueducts, pipelines, dams and recharging of underground ground water cavities.
Without water a human civilization cannot survive and thus the flow of water is at the top of the list for a sustainable and inhabited region, indeed without it, there is no nation.
America should discuss droughts, weather cycles, storage, flows, filtration, wastewater treatment, hydroelectric power, dams, history and the future.
I wish to thank you for reading this article on The Flow of Water.
Perhaps this article is of interest to propel thought in 2007?
Of course this is no modern secret and if you'll recall the Greek philosopher Plato had talked about the City of Atlantis and we all know the Roman Empire had an entire network of aqueducts.
Even on the North American continent the Anastazi Indians built their cliff dwellings in canyon walls with the water running through the middle.
Other nearby Indian tribes built hundreds of miles worth of aqueducts, which were later cemented over and even still used to this day in Arizona.
Today in America as the population increases we see issues with droughts and overtaxing of fresh water supplies.
In the future other strategies will need to be deployed such as desalination.
Long-term droughts in some regions pit farmers against large cities and we know people in the city need water to live and food to eat.
Another issue on the horizon is with growing our own fuel to help break America's addiction to Middle Eastern Foreign Oil.
We cannot grow corn for Ethanol Production without water to grow the crops and use in the refineries (8 gallons in refinery to make one gallon of fuel).
We will need perhaps an over all strategy, such as Genetically Modified Crops which use less water to grow, desalination, better water retention reservoirs and upgraded aqueducts, pipelines, dams and recharging of underground ground water cavities.
Without water a human civilization cannot survive and thus the flow of water is at the top of the list for a sustainable and inhabited region, indeed without it, there is no nation.
America should discuss droughts, weather cycles, storage, flows, filtration, wastewater treatment, hydroelectric power, dams, history and the future.
I wish to thank you for reading this article on The Flow of Water.
Perhaps this article is of interest to propel thought in 2007?
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