Earth to run out of water by 2050

lightspeed

I was watching RT (Russia Today) UK earlier and they interviewed a guy from Wikileaks commenting on a few of their latest leaks.

It mentioned that Nestle had some study done that states the earth will run out of water by 2050.

“Nestle starts by pointing out that a calorie of meat requires 10 times as much water to produce as a calorie of food crops".

From what the guy from Wikileaks said, Nestle did have this report done for humanitarian reasons but mainly because they have over 80 or so brands of bottled water. Nestle had only circulating the report internally and did not publish it which of course i guess what qualifies it as leak.

http://www.inquisitr.com/3046643/world-will-run-out-of-fresh-water-in-2050-says-leaked-report-earth-faces-catastrophic-fate/

smash

Complete bollox dude

yerwanthere123

This will definitely happen.

endacl

Ever seen a picture of the earth from space? Mostly blue. Because there's not much water.

MarkAnthony

To be fair I'd believe a site called wikileaks about leaks. I presume it's a fairly big leak if we're running out in under 34 years.

The Sidewards Man

We can dig a deep well.

FISMA.

MarkAnthony wrote: »

To be fair I'd believe a site called wikileaks about leaks. I presume it's a fairly big leak if we're running out in under 34 years.

Perhaps run by Irish Water?

My name is URL

It's not that it'll run out by then. It's just gonna cost more to supply it to ever-growing and brand new populations.

In any event, you'd be hard pressed to be taking the advice of Nestle when it comes to water... or being a human with the audacity to stay alive.

recylingbin

If we fix the wikileaks, we'll be grand.

endacl

My name is URL wrote: »

It's not that it'll run out by then. It's just gonna cost more to supply it to ever-growing and brand new populations.

Perhaps some form of organisation, responsible for maintaining water supply and infrastructure could be thrown together? Everybody could pay a small annual fee...?

:pac:

smash

Breaking news: oxygen to run out by 2049 so the water shortage won't affect us!

jimmycrackcorm

I'll do my part and pee more often. Ergo I must drink more beer as that seems to help.

endacl

smash wrote: »

Breaking news: oxygen to run out by 2049 so the water shortage won't affect us!

On a happier note, the planet appears to have an inexhaustible supply of both bull5hit and credulity.

MarkAnthony

I thought the soil was to break down by 2048 meaning we'd all starve. Thankfully enough sh!te is being generated by IRA threads in after hours to fertilise the world.

Your Face

Its like a headline from Weekly World News.

The Backwards Man

Nestlé have always been very conscious of the importance of access to safe drinking water, in fairness

Atlantic Dawn

70% of the worlds fresh water is contained within frozen ice in Antarctica, would we not be best to try to warm the earth up to melt this to prevent us running out?

My name is URL

endacl wrote: »

Perhaps some form of organisation, responsible for maintaining water supply and infrastructure could be thrown together? Everybody could pay a small annual fee...?

:pac:

Maybe it shouldn't cost a person in Sandyford the same amount to get water to their home as a one-off builder/investor out in the sticks.

fwiw, I've paid all my IW bills so far and don't regret it. People should pay for it based on their usage and how much of a burden it puts on infrastructure to supply them.

IW is an absolute disaster though. I wouldn't blame anyone for not wanting to contribute towards it.

MarkAnthony

My name is URL wrote: »

Maybe it shouldn't cost a person in Sandyford the same amount to get water to their home as a one-off builder/investor out in the sticks.

fwiw, I've paid all my IW bills so far and don't regret it. People should pay for it based on their usage and how much of a burden it puts on infrastructure to supply them.

IW is an absolute disaster though. I wouldn't blame anyone for not wanting to contribute towards it.

Feck off with your serious posts! :pac:

FISMA.

endacl wrote: »

...the planet appears to have an inexhaustible supply of both bull5hit and credulity.

... and Irish People.

al22

Many reports are published but most people have no attention.

Globally - shortages of food will start in less than 40-50 years from now. Even if people will start produce an artificial food. The Earth population is growing too fast. The ocean water is a most poisonous substance on the Earth around us. We survive swimming because our skin and immune system protect us. Just one ml of ocean water is enough to kill thousands of us.

B.A._Baracus

I too call lies on this one.
I'd believe the shortage of food for the world's population in the future rather than this.

Besides, imagine if there was a water shortage at some point. A better way of processing sea water would be developed. As it stands any joe-blow can boil up sea water, trap the steam which turns into drinkable water. That's as it stands let alone what if in the future or other better means that would be invented.

The Randy Riverbeast

I don't know. The idea that the world requires water faster than we can treat it wouldn't be too far out of the realms of possibility but a lot of things don't require such water. You can water the plants and give to animals untreated with treated water being saved for human consumption.

That would be a lot later than 2050.

entropi

There is/was a documentary on Netflix about Nestlé and their bottled water empire which was pretty good. If I recall correctly, it seemed they were more interested in profits than caring too much about how they got the water to the plant and there was a fair bit of trouble with local towns and water availability to the population.

I wouldn't believe this story at all.

Edit: the documentary is called Bottled Life.

Cathy.C

entropi wrote: »

There is/was a documentary on Netflix about Nestlé and their bottled water empire which was pretty good. If I recall correctly, it seemed they were more interested in profits than caring too much about how they got the water to the plant and there was a fair bit of trouble with local towns and water availability to the population.

Yeah, I remember Bill Burr's take on it around that time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JincoQiWTmU

mad m

Maybe Danny Healy Rae has the answer...

jamesbere

mad m wrote: »

Maybe Danny Healy Rae has the answer...

Combustible water

BattleCorp

Yeah, the world running out of water in the next 40 years or so - no, not going to happen unless we get hit by a huge meteorite or something catastrophic like that.

A few countries running out of water in the next 40 years or so - yeah, I'd say that there is a fairly good chance of that happening.

BattleCorp

jamesbere wrote: »

Combustible water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvJAKVnK4qM

SEPT 23 1989

My mother wont have any Nestle products in the house

thee glitz

lightspeed wrote: »

From what the guy from Wikileaks said, Nestle did have this report done for humanitarian reasons.

That would be the big surprise.

biko

Nestle doesn't believe access to water is a human right.
Also they tried to sell African mothers breast milk substitute instead of letting them breastfeed normally.

Evil men.

murpho999

mad m wrote: »

Maybe Danny Healy Rae has the answer...

The Kerry God that controls all this has it covered.

cowboyBuilder

Overpopulation is the problem - and the demand for meat.

But people will stick their heads in the sand and pretend there's no issue with overpopulation and continue to have 4+ kids.

Calibos

The issue isn't over population. That will stabilize at 10 billion by 2050 due to falling birthrates even in the developing world. The issue might be those 10 billion all wanting the level of consumption we have in the west though.

We'll have unlimited C02 free and safe power via Fusion by then and thus desalination plants will supply all the fresh water we need.

PARlance

Calibos wrote: »

The issue isn't over population. That will stabilize at 10 billion by 2050 due to falling birthrates even in the developing world. The issue might be those 10 billion all wanting the level of consumption we have in the west though.

We'll have unlimited C02 free and safe power via Fusion by then and thus desalination plants will supply all the fresh water we need.

You sound like you know what you're talking about and that's good enough for me. Panic over.

Guy:Incognito

We wont kive to 2050 anyway. Sure when we hit peak oil in the 80's and run out completely in the 90's , it wont be long before the planet stops spinning.......

Cienciano

lightspeed wrote: »

I was watching RT (Russia Today) UK earlier and they interviewed a guy from Wikileaks commenting on a few of their latest leaks.

It mentioned that Nestle had some study done that states the earth will run out of water by 2050.

“Nestle starts by pointing out that a calorie of meat requires 10 times as much water to produce as a calorie of food crops".

From what the guy from Wikileaks said, Nestle did have this report done for humanitarian reasons but mainly because they have over 80 or so brands of bottled water. Nestle had only circulating the report internally and did not publish it which of course i guess what qualifies it as leak.

http://www.inquisitr.com/3046643/world-will-run-out-of-fresh-water-in-2050-says-leaked-report-earth-faces-catastrophic-fate/

That's because they knew it was bollocks

NIMAN

Nonsense of the highest order

The_Valeyard

endacl wrote: »

On a happier note, the planet appears to have an inexhaustible supply of both bull5hit and credulity.

If only we could find a way to convert that into an energy supply. All of the worlds energy crisis would be solved.

colm_mcm

good news for those worrying about the ice caps melting.

cowboyBuilder

Calibos wrote: »

The issue isn't over population. That will stabilize at 10 billion by 2050 due to falling birthrates even in the developing world. The issue might be those 10 billion all wanting the level of consumption we have in the west though.

We'll have unlimited C02 free and safe power via Fusion by then and thus desalination plants will supply all the fresh water we need.

Falling birthrates ???

absolute twaddle ... just take a stroll into Dublin any day and tell me with a straight face there is falling birthrates...

Wibbs

biko wrote: »

Nestle doesn't believe access to water is a human right.
Also they tried to sell African mothers breast milk substitute instead of letting them breastfeed normally.

Evil men.

Yep. Utter sociopathic scumbags. Ayn Rand would be so proud.

Wibbs

cowboyBuilder wrote: »

Falling birthrates ???

absolute twaddle ... just take a stroll into Dublin any day and tell me with a straight face there is falling birthrates...

Ireland doesn't have a falling birthrate, many countries in the EU do though. Replacement rates are down.

That said, my take is so? Why are people in a tizzy about it? Yes pensions are an issue, but hardly an insurmountable one. We could all start living more frugally for a start rather than posing money up the walls on new tat every quarter. When I was born there under half as many humans in the world as there are today and I don't recall riots on the street and hordes of zombies feasting on brains. We're not running out of people. If anything we should be encouraging falling birth rates and working on new social and economic mechanisms to work with that.

ScumLord

It's hard for us in our idyllic little island to appreciate the industrialisation in other countries. It's apparent when flying over parts of America where they've put massive circular farms in the middle of areas that normally couldn't support that growth. They have to pump thousands of tons of water to these places. Americans also have some horrible intensive farming.

Ireland isn't going to be running out of water any time soon and we don't need to feed loads of it to our cattle. With some proper resource management the population could double and we'd still have food left over.

Maximus Alexander

endacl wrote: »

Ever seen a picture of the earth from space? Mostly blue. Because there's not much water.

I don't mean to alarm you, but you can neither drink nor grow crops with the overwhelming majority of that.

bnt

As usual, water alarmists are conflating water of different qualities from different sources. When you talk about water used on crops and grass, that's "grey water", not the potable water that comes from municipal water treatment plants. It also ignores the way some fresh water falls out of the sky at no cost a.k.a. "rain". :rolleyes:

SEPT 23 1989

Calibos wrote: »

The issue isn't over population. That will stabilize at 10 billion by 2050 due to falling birthrates even in the developing world. The issue might be those 10 billion all wanting the level of consumption we have in the west though.

We'll have unlimited C02 free and safe power via Fusion by then and thus desalination plants will supply all the fresh water we need.

and as an island surrounded by trillions of gallons of water we could export the stuff worldwide

Irish Water

storker

recylingbin wrote: »

If we fix the wikileaks, we'll be grand.

Would that involve installing meters?

Seriously, doesn't the amount of water contained in the planet remain pretty constant? It's just a question of where it is and what form it's in...?

Maximus Alexander

storker wrote: »

Would that involve installing meters?

Seriously, doesn't the amount of water contained in the planet remain pretty constant? It's just a question of where it is and what form it's in...?

Yes, the amount of water on the planet remains constant. Which is the problem, because the amount we need keeps rising.

FatherTed

But wait I thought the water levels were going to rise because the polar ice caps are melting?