Am I the only one who finds this a little startling? Wasn't technology supposed to protect us from shortages for evermore? Aren't we supposed to have conquored nature? Is it possible we've got a premise wrong somewhere?

Long-term water crisis predicted

"For example, King County's sewer system discharges 250 million gallons a day -- far more than the average 150 million gallons of water delivered daily by Seattle Public Utilities to all of its customers within Seattle and surrounding areas. Much of that effluent could be captured and treated for industrial, landscaping and agricultural use, Bissonnette said, freeing up millions of gallons of fresh water."