Water Shortage: This is the Best thing since Sliced Bread!

[Photologyst]

If you are interested in saving water and planting trees, then check this out: Groasis, let's green the world!

TOP 10 INVENTIONS OF 2010
The Groasis waterboxx has been elected as one of the top 10 inventions of the world of 2010 by Popular Science, the biggest and oldest popular science magazine in the world with 1,5 million readers. June 2010: Inventions of the Year | Popular Science

Next Spring I plan to purchase at least a dozen of the Waterboxxes in an effort to restore a dry-land landscape.

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Trees and shrubs are great photo subjects.

[faeriegodess612]

Thats really awesome. You can essentially use it anywhere, desert or not.

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by faeriegodess612

Thats really awesome. You can essentially use it anywhere, desert or not.

Indeed! The tests in the Sahara are stunning.

[milosh]

This is an amazing invention!

But it's overpriced, there's not much technology in it to justify that price. He should sell it for less if he really wants to help our planet, he would have plenty of orders and gain fortune just based on sheer quantity. This way he's only going to rush Chinese to copy it, if they haven't already done it. And they should, it's a thing that should be sold almost for it's production price.

[tuxcomputers]

My reaction? Screw with Mother nature at your peril, sure you might get away with it in the short term but she has a long long long memory. Just look at the damage we have caused to the environment around the world with building dams and irrigating places that were otherwise dry. Dam the Nile, yep you sure did, it's rooted now.

If this thing is used to repair the damage that we have caused by deforestation and stuff like that then I am all for it, otherwise we should learn to live within what has been there for thousands of years.

Las Vegas disgusts me, it's a desert get your shit out of there, fountains and lush gardens, your idiots.

This planet would be better off if there were no people. We (myself included) are stupid short sighted selfish idiots that don't deserve what we have.

[RLucas]

Originally Posted by tuxcomputers

My reaction? Screw with Mother nature at your peril, sure you might get away with it in the short term but she has a long long long memory. Just look at the damage we have caused to the environment around the world with building dams and irrigating places that were otherwise dry. Dam the Nile, yep you sure did, it's rooted now.

If this thing is used to repair the damage that we have caused by deforestation and stuff like that then I am all for it, otherwise we should learn to live within what has been there for thousands of years.

Las Vegas disgusts me, it's a desert get your shit out of there, fountains and lush gardens, your idiots.

This planet would be better off if there were no people. We (myself included) are stupid short sighted selfish idiots that don't deserve what we have.

I was thinking the exact same thing, except I was afraid to post it. lol! Introducing non indigenous species to an ecosystem that is already fragile just seems like a really bad idea to me.

[tuxcomputers]

Originally Posted by RLucas

I was thinking the exact same thing, except I was afraid to post it. lol! Introducing non indigenous species to an ecosystem that is already fragile just seems like a really bad idea to me.

There is not a single location on the planet that ISN'T fragile, some are just more fragile than others.

Scientists point and say "Look nothing bad has happened in the last 5 years, everything is hunky dory"

100 years later we look back at them and call them idiots. I weep to think what they will be saying about us in 100 years:

"Genetically modified food, they actually put the stuff in their mouths? eewwwwww"

[gturner]

lets all have a mass suicide party and solve the problem

We have only been here for a little bit of time and will probably only be here a little bit more. Volcanoes earthquarks and meteors will get rid of any evidence that we even existed. In 5 million years (also just a sliver a of time) there will be new creatures crawling about,

[tuxcomputers]

Originally Posted by gturner

lets all have a mass suicide party and solve the problem

You go right ahead, I'll follow ... ahh shortly.. trust me... you drink the KoolAid, I'm just not thirsty right now.

[Photologyst]

Originally Posted by milosh

This is an amazing invention!

But it's overpriced, there's not much technology in it to justify that price. He should sell it for less if he really wants to help our planet, he would have plenty of orders and gain fortune just based on sheer quantity. This way he's only going to rush Chinese to copy it, if they haven't already done it. And they should, it's a thing that should be sold almost for it's production price.

Why do you think that $28.- is too much for the device? It's come down tenfold since it was invented because of volume.

Tux:

I agree that people are a plague upon the earth. However, since we are still here, it might be nice to repair some of the damage that we have caused.

Don't worry, Mother Nature can take care of herself. The planet will recover nicely if She wipes out humanity.

In the meantime, go plant a few trees.