Horizon now, BBC2 - Anybody Else Watching it? Overpopulation/Water etc

Lotus-eater

Why don't we just cut all food off from trolls, this would then stop any unwary traveller being accosted.

BitterAndTwisted

Well, the thing is, if we really did start going down that route there'd be no-one producing the crops for export in those countries and we'd be eating our own toe-nails in about a fortnight. It's shocking to me that we haven't been self-sufficient in food-production in this country for decades now and with the projected increase in oil prices it could mean that we wont be able to import at a price that people could afford. Maybe the day will come when growing cabbages in window-boxes could be made compulsory.

The_White_Horse

at the end of the day, what will be will be. nature will sort it out - whether it be a natuaral disaster or a new disease. something will happen to cull numbers if they get too high.

vivatifosi

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

One of the things that's shocking to me is that we all flush our lavs with drinking-quality water. I'd love to get some method of using recycled water from the bath/kitchen sink/washing-machine going but have no idea where to start.

My family in Queensland, Australia have a terrible problem with water shortages. They keep their own rainfall tank and if it runs out they need to get deliveries in. They have a grey water system which uses water from the shower (and they tell me its un-Australian to shower for more than 3 mins and not consider the water shortage) for the toilets. I looked at the cost of putting something similar on my house and it was prohibitive, though we could all arguably collect rainwater in a butt as the simplest form of this. Water imo is the big issue. You can ship in dried food to people relatively easily in times of need, but water is much harder to move around. Unless of course you're Evian and selling it worldwide, the logic of which I don't really understand.

BitterAndTwisted

I saw something on the TV not long ago about recycling household waste which had a garden where the sewage and waste-water was processed by different plants, ending in a reed-bed of some description. At the end the water was pure and drinkable. A fantastic idea: imagine not having to pay any water-rates forever! All I need to get going is a house with a garden on a gentle slope rather than a little flat in the big city.

lostinrates

Lotus-eater wrote: »

You should head over to the greenfingered thread, we had a good dicussion about "watering" your garden directly. This isn't really the right board to go into too much info
You can always only flush the loo, when someone has a No2 as well, no need for just No1's

Yes it is the right board. Someone called lotus eater a fairy, and a few are offended that some of us merrily urinate out in the open. Apparantly that makes us indecent dirty !!!!!!s. Sounds like me, indeed.:D

lostinrates

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

I saw something on the TV not long ago about recycling household waste which had a garden where the sewage and waste-water was processed by different plants, ending in a reed-bed of some description. At the end the water was pure and drinkable. A fantastic idea: imagine not having to pay any water-rates forever! All I need to get going is a house with a garden on a gentle slope rather than a little flat in the big city.

We olan to have reed bed filtration. Its not even a new alternative reintroduction: its been an eco build choice(where space is available) for a while. People are squeamish though.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes it is the right board. Someone called lotus eater a fairy, and a few are offended that some of us merrily urinate out in the open. Apparantly that makes us indecent dirty !!!!!!s. Sounds like me, indeed.:D

Not thinking of you as a dirty !!!!!! lir, but may give your cabbages a miss if you ever take up market gardening.

Lotus-eater

lostinrates wrote: »

Yes it is the right board. Someone called lotus eater a fairy, and a few are offended that some of us merrily urinate out in the open. Apparantly that makes us indecent dirty !!!!!!s. Sounds like me, indeed.:D

Just tell everyone, why don'tcha. :rolleyes:

It does sound like you though, I'm in agreement with you.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Not thinking of you as a dirty !!!!!! lir, but may give your cabbages a miss if you ever take up market gardening.

My pee, a fox'spee, half a millions birds' poop, rabbit pee,cow poop......its all urdure recycled.