Hey, we stock up on SWILL™, the bottled water straight from Lake Eire!
But, seriously, folks, I did have some tasty tap water from Well Twelve in South Central Wisconsin at a party last night. Yes, the host was proud of how good it tasted and knew which well it was from, and what the mineral content was like (a little high on the manganese, but not enough to worry about).
There is NO way I’m going to share Tap Water This Tasty! with a buncha snowbirds who done schlepped off to Arid-zona.
Unless I’m mistaken, the Earth is a closed system, so the only argument is who gets the resources.
Thus, wars.
Reminds me of a joke we used to tell when I was in elementary school in Toronto:
“Hey, you remind me of a Great Lake.”
“You must mean Superior.”
“No, I mean Eerie.”
Ba-dum-bum!
Note that sometimes, the answer was Lake Urine [Huron]. Hey, we were ten years old; this was the height of risque humour.
My wife and I did that downstream in Lake Ontario, after being stuck in Toronto traffic for an hour and taking an exit that didn’t go to a commercial area, but to a lakeside apartment complex.
A bit under 100,000 tonnes of Kanukistani waste squirts into the Great Lakes each year. http://www.ec.gc.ca/environmentandresources/cesifull2006/images/fig12_BG_e.jpg
I remember that day!
I recently spent twelve hours on a bus to make it back to the little town where I’d had that suspiciously deliciously tangy glass of tap water, only to be informed that, sorry, that was only a one-day phenomenon.
So, where you folks traveling this summer?
