gopher321: Water, water everywhere...

Unfortunately you can't see any of it because it's covered with a writhing mass of people.

History comes in cycles.

It's Chinese water torture all over again. Small amounts of water driving us crazy.

privatize it and bottle it and sell it to douchey americans like they did with that fiji water.

/hot as a fire bender

Its completely and utterly amazing that this dumbarse shiat
gets greenlighted./..


-1 Approvers!

and killing links

oh my god this is the most painstaking boring article i've ever read. jesus, who gives a crap? it's water! the shiat falls out of the sky on an almost daily basis.

Not An Alt: oh my god this is the most painstaking boring article i've ever read. jesus, who gives a crap? it's water! the shiat falls out of the sky on an almost daily basis.


If it's not bottled, it's not drinkable.

Approves

Wanted for questioning.

Uh, question *raises hand*

The "never start a land war in Asia" phrase, does that apply to a country that is from Asia? Like is it OK for China to start a land war in Asia?

There is nothing new about the water wars.

And just like in ''The Man Who Would Be King'' all the Chinese are going to piss upstream when the Indians go out to bath or wash their clothes in the rivers.

Newest weapon?

/hot
//like I imagine her on our first date.

Namahs: Uh, question *raises hand*

The "never start a land war in Asia" phrase, does that apply to a country that is from Asia? Like is it OK for China to start a land war in Asia?

Vietnam has handed them their asses going back for millennia.

We'll have to ask the Mongols for clarification, however,

Well farking DUH!

That's why China, India, the UK and the US are all over Nepal and Bhutan is being forced open. Better than a third of China's water supply is degraded by pollution. The glaciers are shrinking fast, no matter how hard the global warming deniers shriek and gibber. Kashmir and the Tibetan Plateau are the only thing worth going to war over in that part of the world. They have the one thing that everyone absolutely cannot live without.

The real experts - not the hacks on TV and the political appointees in the White House - have known this was coming for decades.

Yawn, another week another "China will have us by the balls!" article.

I mean it's *possible* China leverages water to put South Asian nations under their boots, but it's also possible they drop nukes on them tomorrow. China is pretty low on my list of people to fear today. Maybe in 40 years, but we have to get there first.

vernonFL: A local example of this is the Colorado river. 99% of the river is in the US, but it does flow into Mexico. By the time it gets to Mexico though, there is barely any water left.

The intl example being Egypt...

"Empty your mind. Be formless, shapeless, like water. Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. Put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or creep or drip or crash. Be water, my friend."

Is ready to fight the...



...wait a minute that's not chinese...

Oh wait, The Doctor has backup! Wait, is that James Bond? No...

I always thought of them as being more of a fire nation.

/July 2nd

Oh, Yangzte! Beautiful river! River full of fish!

Words are weapons, sharper than knives. Makes you wonder how the china man lives..................Oh uh a ohhhh..........

vernonFL: A local example of this is the Colorado river. 99% of the river is in the US, but it does flow into Mexico. By the time it gets to Mexico though, there is barely any water left.

It's way more complicated than that though. There's an entire commission set up to deal with waters that flow between the US and Mexico. The US has to ensure (at least in theory) that a certain amount reaches Mexico and that it's within cleanliness/salinity standards. Chapter 14 of Marq de Villiers' Water goes into detail on the various treaties .

China has used water as a weapon before:

Hydraulic Empire (pops)

I keep telling people about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide...

Chinese water? Might wanna test it for lead and arsenic.

Namahs: Uh, question *raises hand*

The "never start a land war in Asia" phrase, does that apply to a country that is from Asia? Like is it OK for China to start a land war in Asia?


I think it would be ok. We'll let this one slide. They have ~2 billion people.

/After all, if you have ~1/3rd of the worlds total population you can change the rules if you don't like them.

There's an old West saying:

"Whiskey's for drinking, water's for fighting."

/Mmm, whiskey

logruszed: China has used water as a weapon before:

Hydraulic Empire (pops)

Same thing that crossed my mind.

/hot ... like a wet ... something

You know who saw this coming? Neal Stephenson. Talked about hydrological warfare in "Snow Crash" what? 20 years ago now?