Circus entrepreneur Guy Laliberte, who founded the Cirque du Soleil theatre company in the 1980s, has become the first clown to go into orbit. He reportedly paid $35 million for his spot on the Soyuz TM-16 spacecraft, which will take him to the International Space Station for a 12-day stay. Laliberte undertook this mission to publicize the world's growing shortage of clean water. He is the seventh paying space tourist to travel to the ISS.
For $11 million, Laliberte could have provided the resources to any number of countries or people to provide them with the tools to provide water, for decades (or longer) to come. The resource - desalination plant, and in Africa, where water is in demand, this would have helped. For $35 million, I am quite sure the builders could have done three, in select locations providing water where none was previously available.
And his home country has more water than they know what to do with - it is incomprehensible the amount of water, and the level of their water tables in the northern areas of their provinces. Enough to satisfy all the demands of North America for centuries.
That would leave us with the energy and drive to provide the technology and resources for Africa to satisfy their water demands.
It is with technology that we will provide the water and needs for the people who today do without. Hinder our ability to excel in technology, and hurt the people.
It also wouldn't hurt if we cut back a little on our water usage. Easy enough to do.
Ensure all washing is done on full loads and not smaller loads using more water. Water your lawns for several fewer minutes each time you water, take shorter showers by a few minutes each time ... and amazingly, we will use less water.
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