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Does heavy water come from chubby rain?

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of this headline.

Now I am become depth

Portland's alternative weekly annually publishes the names of the City's largest residential water users, which I find silly given that if there is one thing we have enough of in Oregon it's water.

/would have loved to be a fly on the wall for the lunch conversations of Oppenheimer and Feynman

This is bad news....

for nuclear families.

although the recommendations would not restrict commercial users, like the city's golf courses, Botanica or businesses.

Read more here: http://www.kansas.com/2013/02/26/2693145/wichita-city-council-may-get - tough.html#storylink=cpy
So, what they're saying is it won't have any impact.

It sounds like they're eliminating dessert from school lunches to try and balance the federal budget.

Probably want to prevent anyone using a M.A.S.S. device within city limits.

Gah, how'd that crap sneak in. Gotta preview next time.

Is there something wrong with the Earth's gravitational field in the future?

Wow, that's a headline you have to be intelligent and well-educated to understand.

I've always wanted to confuse the hell out of people by dropping an ice cube into a tub of water and have it sink.  But where the heck do you get heavy water, and can it be done without nuclear regulations getting in the way?

In St Louis the largest water user is complaining about a rate hike and thinks they should get a discount because they use so much. That would be the Budweiser people.Surprise.

I would rather have water to drink and wash my arse rather than wasting water on vegetation I can't smoke or eat.

Priorities, people!

iheartscotch: cheap_thoughts: iheartscotch: Ok, my first green. I submit random stuff from time to time. Usually with a reference to an obscure or not so obscure movie.

So, there I was, just minding my own business; I saw this article about heavy water use. My mind went directly to Robert Oppenheimer.

I'd like to thank all of you magnificent bastards for upvoting my submission; and the various mods who control these things. Most of all, I'd like to thank Unfreakable for TF.

Congratulations, you still live in Salina.

/sorry.

Hey now; salina doesn't suck THAT bad.

Ok, the water has some Carbon Tetra-Chloride contamination. Ok, the job market for anyone above minimum wage is tighter than a snare drum. Ok, the majority of the women sound like Phyllis Diller and look like Frankenstein.

But, the 3.2 beer is still cold here; and some days, the sun does shine.

Just a slight fix there.

Council member Paul Gray said he thought the punitive pricing schedule could drive city water customers to dig private water wells, creating further revenue problems for the water department.

Problems for everyone else also.

We had a major drought here in Florida some years ago and they really cracked down on people wasting water. Especially on the barrier island, where even fresh ground water is scarce. Folks with lawns too green got warned. If they didn't listen, they got fined. And we have some fanatical lawn waterers here.

We also have a community on the barrier island where the filthy rich live. Very high end. They made a deal with the small city to the north of me to tap into their ground water supply, run a pipe under the river and they could water their lawns, the extensive private golf course and fill their many pools.

Their negotiations were low key, dealing mainly with the city leaders but the pipe went in quickly and the pumps started running.

The first most of us knew about it was when the local paper ran complaints from the citizens there about their ground wells running low and having to spend major bucks to drive them deeper.

Nothing was ever done about it and the pipe, so far as I know, is still there.

People don't seem to get it that any given area can comfortably hold only so many people. City leaders and powerful businessmen keep packing folks in and claiming it's good for the economy as the local cost of living soars, pollution soars and resources become strained. Then more and more money is needed to handle the mess that's created.

Folks suck down more water, meaning even more has to be provided, then they use the sewers more, meaning a bigger sewer treatment plant is needed. From the plant, the amount of gray water released into local streams, lakes or rivers steadily increases causing algae blooms and the rise in the levels of bacteria.

My city had basically 0 air pollution until around the 80's. Now, on a lot of days, if you look down a long road, a slight gray haze can be seen a block away. That same haze used to be spotted a couple of miles away. Our population tripled. Along with it came the inevitable problems of too many people living shoulder to shoulder.

We closed two small dumps and made a new, huge one. Water shortages started. The river started having periods of bacterial pollution during the hot summer months, meaning you could not harvest and eat any shellfish. Then we started having shortages on shellfish and every other type of fish a person could eat from there.

Commercial net fishing was banned. We discovered that the hundreds of new homes along the rivers edge, each with a septic tank, were seeping human waste into the river during the rainy season.

I mean, even a sponge can only absorb just so much. The city had to fork out bucks for a sewer system. Then the sewer plant had to be upgraded.

During our previously cold winters, those with fireplaces could easily get free wood to burn from the hundreds of acres of undeveloped and thickly forested woods. Now, many have to buy it by the cord, pre-cut and shipped in because the majority of those acres have been developed.

Sucking too much water from the ground caused sink holes and well problems, so the city had to extend it's water lines out into the county. Now, it costs $2000 to hook-up. You don't have to, but if you try and sell your house without it, the sale is blocked until you do.

That did somewhat fix the problem, but many folks, discovering their water bills, used their private wells for irrigation, like watering the lawn. Even during rationing, it hasn't dawned on city leaders to carry it over to the private water wells.

You skip out of a ticket if you can prove your bright green lawn is watered from your own well -- even though the aquifer it taps into might also service 1000 other houses.

They just don't seem to get it.

Back when I was a kid, an undeveloped acre was $2000. Now, a quarter of an acre is $20,000 and up and they're selling like hotcakes.

Myria: Wow, that's a headline you have to be intelligent and well-educated to understand.

I've always wanted to confuse the hell out of people by dropping an ice cube into a tub of water and have it sink. But where the heck do you get heavy water, and can it be done without nuclear regulations getting in the way?

Going rate is about a buck a gram, no regulatory issues I know of. Seems like a common classroom demonstration.