Water

Or rather, just another aspect of this world's ridiculous overpopulation problems.

Okay, assume for a second we're back in 1950. Everything's hunky-dory (accepting the impending threat of nuclear doom from the Russians, but they're cool for now). Was infrastructure a problem then? Really think about it, was worrying about water even remotely a concern for the people of the time? No, of course not. Now let's look at what was different. For many cities, the infrastructure (at least piping, etc.) remains much the same as it was 50 years ago, so what's the problem? Well, the world population has tripled since then. (Just to give you an idea of what the population was and has been.) That gives us a little bit of a problem. Though the United States's population has only doubled since then, that gives us twice as many people using the same water systems designed to work at half the capacity we expect of them now. Really, is this that unexpected? This gives us two possible solutions: spend billions of dollars to try to update our woefully out of date water works, or perhaps, possibly, we might just try to reduce our population growth in an attempt to stem this and so many other problems resulting from overpopulation of an already too-stressed world.




Use a condom, people.