Water, Water, Everywhere, But Not For Everyone

if you have it, PLEASE don’t take it for granted. Protect it.

Michael Trigg
4 min readMay 4, 2021

The latest Ex-president of the United States criticized water conservation efforts as not only a waste of time but unnecessary.

He blamed any US water shortages on people flushing the toilet too often as he argued in his usual misinformed and ignorant way for the deregulation of water usage. His claim there is plenty of water around: “It comes down. It’s called rain.” is as stupid if not more so than his solution to wildfires: “Rake the forests.

This pathetic man is misinformed, ill-informed, and ignorant on many fronts. It is a myth that water is a renewable resource. Every single molecule of water that has ever been and ever will be is now present on the planet. There is the same amount of water on earth as there was when the earth was formed. The water that comes from your tap could contain molecules that Cro-Magnan man drank. The overall amount of water on our planet has remained the same for two billion years.

An image of water.
Photo by Anastasia Taioglou on Unsplash

Whatever water humans and animals use and expel as gray water and urine is cleansed by nature and makes its…

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Michael Trigg

A “Jack of all Trades” and master of some: Mechanic, Writer, Sales Rep, TV producer, Management, Insurance Agent, Consultant www.handshakeconsultants.com