Turf Wars: Coming To A Lawn Near You {CNBC Video}

CNBC ^ | 18 Sep 09

[OKSooner]

It wasn’t brief, it was programming. I think the content of the link may have changed.

[thefactor]

[shove_it]

You must be on a different Internet than mine - the link worked for me three times in a row.

[Right Wing Assault]

Are you bucking for the Water Czar job?

I don't know. I don't think I am diabolical enough. I'm sure I left some loopholes in my proposal where the wealthy could get illegal water.

[BenLurkin]

Except that the average front lawn produces enough oxygen for a family of four every day.

That reduces CO2.

[stormer]

That’s not making water, it converting it from one state to the another. All of the water on Earth, every drop, is all there is.

[cookcounty]

"And you understand the resource is finite? We ruin water all the time - and we just can't make more.

So the EPA abolished the Water Cycle?

Are you also worried about all the oxygen being "ruined"?

[stormer]

"The friggin planet's surface if 75% water! They want to make more? How do you "ruin" water?"

Your kidding, right?

And you know what happens when you drink sea water - it's bad.

[cookcounty]

—and it is continually being recycled....it’s pretty hard to destroy water.

[stormer]

There's this pesky thing called a water budget. What it boils down to (no pun intended), is that only a certain percentage of the planet's water is going to be available at any given time; when we trash that, we're screwed. Sure, we could pollute every drop of water on Earth, and sooner or later, it would be cleansed by natural processes - but we probably don't want to wait the several hundred of thousand years it's going to take.

[stormer]

It’s not pretty hard - it’s damned near impossible. It’s easy to render it useless, however.

[Right Wing Assault]

Where I live, we have water treatment plants that put it right back into use. We even drink it.