Okay it's flooding, what do we do with all the water?

Human management of water is very bad, in the USA 2/3rds of the country is in drought while at least 1/4th in suffering from flood, how much sense does that make. We have highways that span the country why not invest in water ways that use this resource?

When I tuned in to the late news, North Dakota, USA was also flooded, and good old Uncle Sam, with technology probably second to Japan, is helpless about it. Flooding is an act of God, and when God sends it, we are bound to be helpless. We are simply humans. What we can try to do is to be aware and alert when such calamities come. Marikina City had set the example, warning sirens had pushed the people to seek higher grounds. The disaster rescue teams had been deployed. And other provinces also have followed suit. In time, we will be all right. In time, we will also come up with a plan as to where to channel all the water. Right now, we should be sending the much needed blankets and hot soup to the people in the shelters. The children, especially, are chilled to the bone.

hi louievill I am here in California USA and earlier this past fall we had a lot of rain, flooding in some areas and now they say we have more than enough but still the gov. will not say whether or not there will be water rationing again this coming fall or whether water prices will go down. your country does need to have some dams or reservoirs to save all that water for drier times.You are absolutely right and in a tropical climate I imagine there is lots of need for water,right?

I have often thought that this sort of thing makes sense. I grew up in an alpine rain forest where it rained 8 days out of 10. We had more than enough water for ourselves plus more that could very easily have been piped to an area of the country that was in drought. I remember hearing reports of areas hard hit with the drought and thinking that our state could have been raking in the bucks shipping water to those areas. But alas! Making sense is against the code of the politicians! They would rather spend the money on something that we don't need than to do something constructive with it. They are too busy sitting on their fat a**es collecting their payoffs to really pay any attention to any good suggestions from their constituents!

I admire your good sense of preserving things for future use. This is a good habit. But I do not think the rest of humanity will agree with you. We are all damn waste in our daily life. We waste food that we eat not to talk of ordinary water. Can you see the large amount of food that American citizen are throwing to the waste bin on a daily basis. In the philipine where you are based you have plenty of water. Infact, the whole of philipine is landlocked with water surrounding the country and therefore, you should not expect your engineer to get bothered about saving water. At least they will say that philipine is the water economy of the world and that will not make them think about the technology that you refering to. Come to countries such as Zambia,Sudan,Mali and Nigeria you will know that we do not have water to use let alone to waste. I think your scientist in philipine will not start thinking so long as they hold the belief that you have plenty of water in the country. They never realise that situation can change.

Hey, that's a great idea! You think this is being done in other more advanced countries? I think Japan has done something like this to treat salt-water. And Maynilad and Manila Water treat water from the dams anyway.