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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by grecy on Thursday January 30, 2014 @04:35PM (#7153498)
> What in rural Wyoming would ever justify spending half a million dollars for a single water well?

You need to think further into the future. What happens in 50-100-200 years when all the surface and near-surface water is spoken for, and there is literally not enough water for the population to even drink?

(If you think I've being doomsdayish, this actually happens in Australia - a buddy of mine with a newborn in a city of 30,000 people had to rely on bottled flown-in water just to be able to drink)

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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by DerpDerpDerp on Thursday January 30, 2014 @04:47PM (#7153548)
I mean, on those time scales we could (more expensively) desalinate water using fusion power.
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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by grecy on Thursday January 30, 2014 @05:48PM (#7153896)
Just because we might have the ability to repair some of the damage we've done to the planet in the future, that doesn't mean we shouldn't be trying to reduce that damage now.
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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by angersock on Thursday January 30, 2014 @05:25PM (#7153766)
Or even more cheaply, reduce the number of people!
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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by Dylan16807 on Thursday January 30, 2014 @06:35PM (#7154150)
Desalination for personal use is cheap. Cheaper than killing, even.
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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by Crake on Thursday January 30, 2014 @09:59PM (#7154966)
Cheaper than birth control?
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Re:Message from Mexico: U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Somed... by lostlogin on Friday January 31, 2014 @12:17AM (#7155400)
That come for free with water contamination. http://m.livescience.com/20532-birth-control-water-pollution...
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