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Editors of Peak water can find more information in the January 2009 issue of the magazine Awake!, which has, on pages 3 and 4, the article "Are We Running Out of Water?", and, on pages 5 to 7, the article "The Water Crisis--What Is Being Done?". Page 7 consists of three photographs and one diagram.
In these two articles, the magazine cites the following sources.
-- Wavelength (talk) 19:56, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
[I corrected some of the page numbers. -- Wavelength (talk) 19:34, 5 February 2009 (UTC)]
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There are some language clarity issues... which need addressing... and have started to do some of that. Others, please scrutinize what I am doing and improve it further. The article is interesting and important... and just needs some tweaking ... it is impressive with the scope and information it is presenting.. and valuable information through out the article... just needs a little nudging and some formatting and a few refs/citations. skip sievert (talk) 01:20, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
So here are the issues so far:
Two editors have reworked the article. Plagiarism: One sentence, restated and given proper credit with a reference does not constitute plagiarism. Any more change to the fact I am quoting makes it original research. Help me understand the problem.
We need to work on this.
I will find several references.Alternatives for Ground Water Cleanup
I suppose that there are facts showing that Saudi Arabia did not have peak water? Or, that Libya will not have peak water when they are mining fossil water? Bring on the evidence. I don't quite get the NPOV argument here. Kgrr (talk) 17:24, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
First, I would like to thank User_Talk:24.16.206.104 for the very constructive edits and responding to the cleanup tag. The article is very much better overall now. The only thing that caught my eye was the reversion of my edit regarding [Saudi Arabia]. The next citation in that paragraph does not support this assertion, and it seems to me that declaring that any place has hit peak water with any level of finality is speculative, unless we attribute that sort of claim to the person who is saying it. "According to so-and-so, Saudi Arabia has hit peak water" Gigs (talk) 15:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
Grundle2600, you keep insisting on putting fact tags into "At last resort, population in a given hot stain, or an area where fresh water has been depleted, should be limited. [citation needed] If necessary entire communities need to be relocalized to where there is water. [citation needed]" These are really both obvious and don't need supporting statements. What is your real objection here? If there is no water for them to drink, they will die within a half of a week. If they don't have water for hygiene, they will get sick. What are the alternatives? We don't bother supporting things like 1+1=2 with a reference. Why do these two sentences need references (other than to try to pester me some more with your ultra-libertarian right view point)? Why don't you make the change rather than drive-by tagging.
If it is a last resort situation, the option of desalination has already been considered. Desalination only works close to a large body of renewable water, where people can afford it. People living on $1 a day budget cannot afford desalinated water. Yes, $1 per day. At 1,700 cubic meters per person per year, people are said to live in water stress. 1,700 cu meters at 50 cents per cu meters is $850. This is 2.3 times what many people make in one year. Some 2.6 billion people still struggle to make do at this marginal income level.
Please see Template:Fact and consider the following. "Many editors object to what they perceive as overuse of this tag, particularly in what is known as "drive-by" tagging, which is applying the tag without attempting to address the issues at all. Consider whether adding this tag in an article is the best approach before using it, and use it judiciously." kgrr talk 01:16, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
Is there a chance of adding the 'water input' next to the 'water output' on the tables? It's hard to tell who is getting close to water stress without seeing the inflows and outflows, along with growth rates. Watchpup (talk) 13:50, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
In 'Health problems' it is said that silver is a toxic metal. This is surely not the case. Indeed silver has got anti-bacterial properties. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.156.200.93 (talk) 14:30, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Several months ago, when I proofread this article, I had these two questions.
-- Wavelength (talk) 23:45, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
[I am revising my message of 23:45, 12 September 2009 (UTC). -- Wavelength (talk) 16:11, 13 September 2009 (UTC)]
Here is a third area of uncertainty.
-- Wavelength (talk) 01:10, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
"Like peak oil, peak water is inevitable given the rate of extraction. A current argument is that civilisation, man's preferred way of living for the past six thousand years, is intrinsically thirsty and large populations hoping to enjoy 'civilised' life styles explains why groundwater is being exhausted so quickly.[7]"
Nice —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.199.100.223 (talk) 07:06, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
US hit peak water in 1970 and nobody noticed TRS-80 (talk) 14:57, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
this youtube video by Albert A. Bartlett has an equation at 4:36 which differs from others here. its called the "Expiration Time or "T sub E", of a non-renewable resource whose rate of consumption is growing steadily". I think its highly relevant to all of the articles on peak resource use and limits to growth. If anyone else thinks his equation is relevant, can they transcribe it? the math is beyond me, and i cant reconstruct it from the image on screen.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:07, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
So I have added the following to the introduction, which pretty much negates the entire article:
The earth has 326,000,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water[1]. With 7 billion people, the earth has 46 billion gallons of water per person. This water is infinitely recyclable. Israel is now desalinizing water at a cost of US$0.53 per cubic meter.[2] Singapore is desalinizing water for US$0.49 per cubic meter.[3] After being desalinized at Jubail, Saudi Arabia, water is pumped 200 miles (320 km) inland though a pipeline to the capital city of Riyadh.[4] According to MSNBC, a report by Lux Research estimated that the worldwide desalinated water supply will triple between 2008 and 2020.[5]
Ss6j81avz (talk) 06:11, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
The following sentences are obvious exaggerations "Accessible freshwater is located in lakes, rivers, reservoirs and shallow underground sources. Rainwater and snowfall do very little to replenish these stocks of freshwater" Rain and snow fall are the sole means by which rivers are continuously replenished. Rivers flow into the sea after all. Reservoirs are replenished by rivers, lakes vary, and many aquifers replenish slowly or not at all. So I'm changing them. Mburk2 (talk) 01:11, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
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This article never defines peak water. Is that not a significant omission.Bill (talk) 04:43, 9 June 2014 (UTC)
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