Mankind has billions of starving people who usually lack water. The Gross pool used fuel comparable to driving 8300 miles a year in a large vehicle, which few humans can afford outside USA.

It sounds bizarre to me to think that Americans expect that kind of "luxury" in a world beset with murderous conflict involving, for example, a country (Afgh) with 90% male illiteracy and 97% female illiteracy after the USA has been fighting there since Jimmie Carter turned USA into a religious crusader.

The "pool-think" article from Gross illustrates how OBL went insane in reaction to world cruelties and deranged religiosity.

While I myself romp in my daughters' heated 80-foot pools, at least I see where it is leading.

Gone perhaps are the days when swimming in the cold water of the "Y" pool was a great luxury.

But I must say that swimming in the calm curative saltwater of Coney Island beats any pool.

To ensure that social justice applies, New York's city government has seen to it that the sand is filthy and strewn with broken glass, with one (not two) garbage pails per city block.

No wonder McCain's closing remarks centered around the concept of "Fight Fight Fight."

It seems that we will probably lose if we achieve victory.

Humans are perhaps incapable of cooperative life without severe necessity.

It might come soon.

"Humans are perhaps incapable of cooperative life without severe necessity."

Ay, there's the rub! Most humans (all, for the first few years) are equally incapable of self-sufficiency. This results in great intellectual torment since no arrangement may ever be proposed, even to one's self, for which there aren't two sides.

Far more water is used by industry than by individuals.

Peak water use here is prior to plant openings, when people are showering. bout 6:30AM

It definitely excuses profligacy in water usage and energy for pool-heating.

We should spread word of our water-wealth globally.

Flaunt it!

Can we get industry out of The Southwest?

Or is agriculture an "industry"?

Can USA in 2008 build a major waterpipe system from flood-areas into Southwest? Is that an issue as important as gay marriage?

The August 2008 issue of Scientific American has a good article on the water crisis, an includes a number of suggested solutions. One major point stood out for me, and it is the same point that is currently made about renewable energy sources: We are in need of large scale storage facilities for both water and energy. We obtain, from nature, many times more fresh water and solar/wind energy than we need, but we lack storage facilities which would allow us to match supply to demand. Nature has never been particularly predictable and now, with global warming affecting the weather patt4erns, it is much less so. Much of our forecasting is based on models which are statistical references to the past, but the probability of the future resembling the past (in the area of wind, water, and insolation) has greatly diminished. This only makes solving storage problems more difficult. However, it doesn't change the fact that storage capacity is the most important future issue for both fresh water and energy.

We've had a huge population shift to the sunbelt and there are water issues? Man, who coulda seen that coming?

Anyway, I hope you're not planning on getting that water from the great lakes.

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"Pools bring war" That's deep, man deep. At least on one end.

Pools don't kill people. People kill people.

Pools do kill people. More than accidental firearm deaths.

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