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Your car captures energy from wind (micro-turbines), solar (roof cells)+ engine heat. You plug your car in at night to power your home
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Introduce a global water tax allocating the same amount of water for every world citizen. The rich then have to buy licences from the poorer
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Develop power plants with less waste heat. Focus on ways to convert more of the heat back into electrical power.
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A new easy to produce, environmentally friendly inert material to replace grass in lawns, sports fields etc (no watering, no mowing)
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A majority of energy ejected into the atmosphere today by refrigeration systems is captured and utilized to treat water, heat water, etc.
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Water treated to potable standard should only be used for drinking/showering. Irrigation, industrial use water can use much less energy.
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All roofs on builings will hold solar cells. All roads will be paved with the latest solar cells that can survive the stress of the traffic.
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Vege production uses less H2O than animal production, a push towards eating more vege than meat/animal products may reduce H2O consumption?
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Water and Power book keeping of companies (similar to financial statements) become obligatory.
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Developed nations imposed a water tax on energy companies, forcing them to innovate and thus reducing water consumption significantly
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We retrieve additional hydrogen and oxygen from outerspace and create enough water to make up for the short fall.
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Rain water harvesting showing a path "Think locally and act globally"
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Create a planet-wide organization (UN model?) which uses a systems-thinking model to generate ideas, and assess cross-impacts
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Village scale water treatment provides maintainable means to use water now considered too contaminated for use at low energy consumption.
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Water becomes more expensive than gas.
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All corporate entities undergo lifecycle analysis/foot-printing. Their scores (based on energy/water/+) are put on a world leader board
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Complete packaged systems containing electrical generation systems allow for fully self contained utilities programs on small scales.
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The game would be real, with real rewards... Money returned, tax credit, etc.
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Water collection systems feed run-off back into their underground sources rather than ONLY to streams, thus replenishing our reserves.
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Emerging economies see an increase in young, affluent middle class demanding to retain their new status & reject global water/energy limits
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