"Water, Water, Everywhere/And Not a Drop To Drink"

(by way of preamble, I'd like to point out that Samuel Taylor Coleridge was so much cooler as a young man, when he was smoking opium and writing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner than when he got older and stodgy)

Please read this article from the New York Times: The Future is Drying Up. When I first heard about global warming, this was my initial fear. Later people began to freak about about the sea levels rising and in the face of Katrina and post-Katrina traumas that fear has certainly made itself precedent to this one. But the threat of losing our water supplies has much more frightening, long-term ramifications. I like the angles the article illuminates; it offers a refreshingly straightforward and scare-you-straight perspective, rather than that TIME article from a few weeks ago in which the author discussed, rather cavalierly, the potential benefits of completely losing our polar ice caps (New Shipping Routes! Access to Underwater Oil Reserves!...who cares about polar bears drowning and Manhattan flooding?).

So do me a favor and read this, and restore my faith in humanity. I was already dooming us all to death in a few hundred years, even in the face of all the grace of Walden Pond. I could use a smile or two.