Water World

Tell me, is it more the case that we are flushing our toilets with potable water, or that we are brushing our teeth with toilet water?

I'm confused.

In many urbanised areas, I suspect a bit of both - a sort of 'Soylent Grey' water, if you will - how could the situation be otherwise?

The axiom is that one can 'go three minutes without air, three days without water and three weeks without food' (to which I am tempted to add 'three miles without oil'); it seems to me we are gradually working our way backward through this life-support hierarchy, and that the long-predicted Water Wars will by no means be the end of it.

Meanwhile, 'Don't forget to breath'.

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