Conserve Water?

Its funny how we are often reminded to "conserve water", you see this phrase in almost all environment friendly establishment (or those who are trying to be), but have we really asked ourselves is it really applicable for the Philippines?

We have so much water.

This thought came across  my mind after all the raining today.  We are an archipelago, a group of island, we are surrounded with water and constantly visited by storms and typhoons.   Since mass cannot be created or destroyed, thus, we practically have an infinite supply of water (water cycle anyone?).

I guess the only problem is failure to manage or engineer our way to complete utilization of that potential (the infinite supply of water that is).  Is it really a failure in our part or just mere limitation of the current technology available to us humans?

Let's keep in mind that our country isn't really technologically up to date.  Heck, we even have a 62 Billion Dollar debt while having 75 Billion Dollar reserve and on top of that we will be lending a billion Dollar to Europe - what an irony!!! Or maybe just idiotic.

I think we have very competent economist and intellectually at par to any other nationality in this world but yet we are still economically challenge.

I guess, the only issue and problem really is "thinking".  Have we really thought about everything before we endeavor?

We are globally competent as a professional but relatively under rated just simply because we allow others to do so.  Imagine how our professional teachers ended up being some house help in some other country or just how our nurses ended up working without any salary in the guise of volunteerism.  Volunteer my ass!!!  By the way, I'm an engineer and not a nurse - its just I sympathize with them.

Which brings us back to the phrase "conserve water".  Why?  Just like we are not allowing incineration of our solid waste and just have dump sites all over the country for the sake of "clean air" which shouldn't be a matter in the first place.  All you need is just one strong typhoon and the air pollution in Metro Manila is gone else where.  We have approximately 20 typhoons annually, so why not allow incineration?  The answer, we didn't use our head.  We just copied the laws of other countries without thinking whether it is truly applicable to us.

We have so many laws but very poor enforcement!

I guess in summary its just a matter of applicability.  Conserve water?