Giving Our Great Grandchildren Half A Chance

SURVEYS INDICATE THAT AMERICANS haven't the first clue how to save water. The answers almost always have something to do with shorter showers or less lawn watering, turning off the water while brushing teeth, and so forth. But the real answer, dear fellow citizen of earth, which we all know and pretend not to, is in the toilet. The answer is to not flush as often. Feces and vomit only. Pee is a no flush proposition, unless it gets to three pees. Three pees, and you flush. three pess you're out. We Americans are so totally hung up about what comes out of our boeies that we don't even want to talk about it, and we keep building smaller and smaller and more efficient toilets instead of just..doing..what is obvious..you might wish to start using the "toilet", au naturell, in your backyard, and showering but once a week like they do in France, but that might also seem a bit extreme. And that isn't a criticism of the French; we Americans are obsessed about showers and baths, requiring at least one a day. Every hour on the hour enough energy comes pouring down on us from the sun to provide enough energy for the entire world, running full blast. Easy, free, energy. Makes you wonder why so many fossil fuel companies don't seem to be all that fanatically fired up about this obviously perfect idea; start using solar energy, then, the cost of energy needed to purify ocean water will be next to nothing, and we can have all the fresh water we want, plus, we can keep the ocean level down in so doing. Also, of course, we can then eliminate all the extra carbon in the atmosphere, save the planet from runaway global warming, and give our great grandchildren half a chance.