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How the World Might Look If We Run Out of Water

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Rex the Decadent
09/24/09

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The upper and lower images do not seem to connect at all.
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Margatron
09/24/09

@SjN: Yes there is, look closely at the first one, between the hexagons there are the cavern-rivers. So in the bottom picture, that large column-building is one of the hollow hexagons aboveground.

Why do we have to wait for a dystopian future? Can't we build these right now, say, in Colorado or Nevada?
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fnc
09/23/09

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Where on earth would they shift all that...earth they dig up to make these underground cities? Or is that why there is a mountain in the background?

And we won't "run out" of water. The future hydrological cycle might not drop it right where we want it to, but it's not like we're using it up like, say, oil.

Oh crap now I'm depressed again.
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skierpage
09/23/09

@fnc: And we won't "run out" of water. The future hydrological cycle might not drop it right where we want it to, but it's not like we're using it up like, say, oil.

We sure as hell are running out of usable freshwater. Most regions moved past dipping a cup in the local mountain stream endlessly renewed by rainwater decades ago. We overconsume freshwater, thus depleting rivers and aquifers, then we contaminate the runoff so it's not good for anything without huge investments in water treatment that third world countries can't afford. Unless half the population of Asia and North Africa moves to the Amazon basin, they've got a huge problem. Here's the Wikipedia article, here's another summary.
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OMG! Ponies!
09/23/09

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Great story Jesus.

It would be better if you wrote it from the sauna that is Giz Gallery. John's here, sweating his balls off. Why aren't you?
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Daversa
09/23/09

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Secretly hidden and protected in large public water features. :) Pretty cool vibe to the architecture though.
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tapiocasunshine
09/23/09

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hahaha i'm looking at the back of Andrew Kudless' head. He's a teacher of mine. His work is great - he did this competition in 24 hours.
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