Comments on: The End of Cheap Water? http://dailyreckoning.com/the-end-of-cheap-water/ Entertaining Ideas on the Economy, Markets, Gold, Oil and Investing Strategies. Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:09:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Ocean Moucka http://dailyreckoning.com/the-end-of-cheap-water/#comment-20407 Ocean Moucka Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:29:18 +0000 http://dailyreckoning.com/?p=17934#comment-20407 To date, probably the most reliable and widely-accepted water estimate to produce a pound of beef is the figure of 2,500 gallons/pound. Newsweek once put it another way: "the water that goes into a 1,000 pound steer would float a destroyer." To date, probably the most reliable and widely-accepted water estimate to produce a pound of beef is the figure of 2,500 gallons/pound.

Newsweek once put it another way: “the water that goes into a 1,000 pound steer would float a destroyer.”

]]> By: Bala http://dailyreckoning.com/the-end-of-cheap-water/#comment-19757 Bala Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:33:18 +0000 http://dailyreckoning.com/?p=17934#comment-19757 Jim Rogers has been saying this for quite some time. Coming from India, I have experienced the water shortage first-hand. Alternatives exist. For instance, widespread rain-water harvesting has the potential to raise falling ground-water tables. We had an experience of it in Chennai (where I live). The only problem with this is that people need to act (read spend some money) acting in their own long-term self-interest. They need to realise that spending some money to install RWH systems today will save them thousands over years and the trouble of hunting for water. Education may help, but then it is a long-term project. It does not pay either, unless someone owns the underground aquifers and hence has an incentive to maintain them. Jim Rogers has been saying this for quite some time. Coming from India, I have experienced the water shortage first-hand. Alternatives exist. For instance, widespread rain-water harvesting has the potential to raise falling ground-water tables. We had an experience of it in Chennai (where I live). The only problem with this is that people need to act (read spend some money) acting in their own long-term self-interest. They need to realise that spending some money to install RWH systems today will save them thousands over years and the trouble of hunting for water. Education may help, but then it is a long-term project. It does not pay either, unless someone owns the underground aquifers and hence has an incentive to maintain them.

]]> By: Dean http://dailyreckoning.com/the-end-of-cheap-water/#comment-19693 Dean Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:24:40 +0000 http://dailyreckoning.com/?p=17934#comment-19693 Well yes, I guess. But when countries are facing water crisis (what the plural?) they cut the demand for water. How do they do that? By forcing large users (industrial, and agricultural) to pay much more for it, or simply cut the supply to them. As is happening in some middle eastern countries now, they are outsourcing their agricultural/food production industries to countries that have more fresh water or rainfall. While what you say is true, I suspect the beneficiaries will be top agricultural exporting countries as India and China import more water intensive products. Well yes, I guess. But when countries are facing water crisis (what the plural?) they cut the demand for water. How do they do that? By forcing large users (industrial, and agricultural) to pay much more for it, or simply cut the supply to them. As is happening in some middle eastern countries now, they are outsourcing their agricultural/food production industries to countries that have more fresh water or rainfall. While what you say is true, I suspect the beneficiaries will be top agricultural exporting countries as India and China import more water intensive products.

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