It seems that people are again becoming concerned about our use of water. Fresh water being finite on this planet. Read here. It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last.
Now as well as saying that people are already using water more efficiently and that work is progressing to improve that it does state that ‘The only solution is to learn how to live with less water by making much better use of what we have.’ There are suggestions, as usual, in the comments that we need to cull humans and keep our numbers down. (When the global warming scam is finally debunked it will be these nutters next.)
Now I’m not sure I agree with that single solution. Like everything that seems to be said about environmental matters it seems to be taking a very simplistic view. You see we have plenty of saltwater. There are several ways to make this into freshwater but all are expensive. Expensive for now anyway. Perhaps as we hit water problems and it becomes expensive someone could make a mint if they get working on developing this now. Plus we seem to have plenty ideas about water management in submarines and for our space exploration. We should have someone looking at these as well as simply doing what we can to reduce reliance on the limited resources.
However, I do believe that once we start our ‘Wagon train to the Stars’ we will find plenty of water in asteroids and on other planets in our solar system. We might not be able to colonise them all but we can certainly mine their resources.