A big Chain

While navigating through internet to find economic issues of The Independent Republic of China, I found out that we aren't the only ones with water scarcity issues, it seemed that China too was suffering with water scarcity. Water scarcity is a big problem in a country, but this time scarcity didn't take my attention, but the issue with rice.

You see, rice is an important factor for China's country, without water China can't reproduce rice, and without rice China can't feed its whole population. Of course, it is a great issue, but not only that, it is a GREAT GLOBAL ISSUE. I later found out that China's rice is exported to many parts around the world and that China's rice problem concerns all of us since its rice supplies the half of the world's rice.

It really is a big chain, if China stops reproducing rice, then eveybody around the world will have serious hunger problems.

Who would've thought that a country's problem would be another one's too.

Scarcity of Water

We all know about the “strategy” for saving water called TANDEO, I think we are becoming used to this situation and some of us are really annoyed because of the scarcity of water. This situation has become really stressing because we constantly face situations in which there is no water in our house and we are forced get it from other places such as water gallons that we buy in the stores. Last Saturday I woke up at 8:00pm and took a shower about at 1 o’clock, later I realized that the water was totally over, the “Rotoplas” in my house was totally empty. I wasn’t surprised because I’m getting used to the fact that water is scarce in our city, but what really made me angry was to know that the water was cut since two days before. Later I heard that days before there were some announcements telling about this cut of water. Finally after three days and because of my ignorance, as soon as the water returned I instantly began to fill as many containers as I found. On Sunday my dad told me about a man who called at a radio station asking for the address of the Mayor of the city, and protesting because he was sure that the mayor didn’t have this kind of problems in his house. This make me think about the fact that if we feel really bad with this situation, what will happen when the water turns more scarce.

No Scarcity

A few classes ago, the topic of a world with no scarcity were brought up during class. I started to imagine what our world would be if all kinds of resources where infinite. If economics tries to distribute all resources because of scarcity, if there is no scarcity what would economics be about?
Maybe in a very lucky situation our society would reach a perfect level of society. If there is no scarcity, everyone would be available to get every kind of service; money should be well distributed. I just wonder what rich and greed people would do, if everything precious that they have, is now available to all kinds of people.
For the worst of chances, I think scarcity could bring Anarchy to society, because there would be no control, and they idea of power could get in the mind of every one because now they have the same chances that everyone has.
I really don’t know what would happen, but I think it is a good idea to be prepared for this kind of situation. Starting with our values and principles, so if one day scarcity is really over, people will not try to kill each other.

Northern Hermosillo stinks

A couple of days ago we all habitants of Hermosillo were warned that for 2 days we would have no water in our houses. So everyone started to prepare for this shortage, so they began filling their “tinacos” and “cisternas” so people wouldn’t run out of water. So it got me thinking: “Why the hell does this happens?” and I wonder if it’s because we are really running out of water or there is another reason to this. I remember last year, we had the same problem, through this time of the year, and there was one the day that there was no water, and all of a sudden the governor solve the problem. So finally I came to the conclusion that all of this may be a publicity stunt for the government or just some kind of arrangement with the “tinacos “ and “cisternas” sellers; because, if you pay close attention, you realize that those kind of sellers won a lot last year so they did this year selling their product. So I’m still thinking of that issue, and I think that it is kind of both a publicity stunt and a arrangement between seller and government.

A World without Scarcity

A World without Scarcity

An infinite quantity of resources is the dream of every society, the idea of having infinite resources makes us think about all the possible advances the society could have, but by showing this image Im trying to tell you that there are positive and negative sides in a situation like this.There would be enough resources for the survival of poor communities. Many problems such as hunger would be solved; the most important resources such as water and food would be infinite. The constant fighting for territories or resources like oil would be over.

It’s incredible to imagine such a world, without problems, and resources for every single person, there would be enough jobs for the people and hopefully a better distribution of the resources. Maybe this could also end with any kind of crisis; probably there would be no crime because everyone would have enough resources. Other problems such as immigration would be over because there is no necessity in immigrating if there are enough resources in the place where you live.

Even if many global problems could be solved, there is no perfect world, not even with infinite resources. Some problems like overpopulation would become even worse because there no necessity of moving from a place if the resources are enough, so the populations would concentrate in a determined place and as a consequence communities become bigger. The problem that could affect our world in a severe way is the pollution, with a lot of resources there would be more and more wastes causing damage to the environment. By thinking about this I realized that there is no perfect world.

What would the world be like if there was no scarcity?

The topic of this post is what would the world be like if there was no scarcity? Well, unfortunately we do have scarcity in the world, and our trouble is especially with water.

If there was no scarcity in the world the first thing that comes to mind is a perfect world, and maybe it is.

Most of the problems in the world are caused by scarcity, hunger, poverty, economic problem, etc. There wouldn't be hunger because we would have all the food we ever wanted and everyone would be able to have some because its unlimited. Because we would have all the resources we need there wouldn't be much sense in working as hard as we do, and money would not have that much of a value, meaning that we would all be rich and poverty would not exist.

Our way of life would be totally different from the way it is now, we would not be worrying about the lack of water, pollution, etc. Population would grow, there would be no need for immigration, exporting and there wouldn't even be wars, because wars are mostly about resources we find and since they are limited and valuable everybody wants them, like oil. The world would be a better place, everyone would be happy.

Sadly, we live in a world were most of our resources are scarce, so we must take care them and look for other alternatives. We must change our way of life,if we want to keep living.

A world without SCARCITY

Well, on class, we talked about how would the world would be without scarcity, and at first I thought that it would be great!

Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants, in a world of limited resources. It states that society has insufficient productive resources to fulfil all human wants and needs. For example, fruits such as strawberries are scarce on occasion because they grow only at certain times of the year. When the supply of strawberries is lower, they are scarce, or not always available. If enough people want strawberries when none are available, then the demand increases. And this demand is high not because the price is low but because the supply is low.
So if it wasn’t scarcity at all it would be perfect then. We wouldn’t worry about food, oil, energy sources, water etc.

But later I thought, human behaviour would change dramatically, we wouldn't worry for the quantities we used, consumed etc. For example, the use of car would increase so much, that pollution will also intensify and global warming might be something sure, unless we changed our habits. Values of things would also decrease, since there are a lot of supplies.

Then, scarcity could bring us a positive consequence, which is an awareness, and conscious that not everything is infinite, and we should care a propose solution for actual problems.


In contrast with other post of classmates, where without scarcity there would be no sense of life, I think that our incentives (living reasons) ARE ONLY GOING TO CHANGE, they would be different, but still there would be.

We would care about people and their wellbeing, we would focus on improving technology, and the development of it and how to use it wisely to take advantage of resources and energy sources as possible, also how to distribute such abundance of resources and the use of these intelligently in such a way that there will be no damage to the environment so everyone can end benefited from them. Education would also be considered fundamental.

Scarcity: Good or Bad?

Can scarcity be an opportunity of changing and being better?
As we all know, scarcity is a huge global problem that affects people in many forms. But talking about another point of scarcity we can see it as a good thing.

Logiclly, scarcity is bad because it is something that affects and damages people and its world. But if we take another point of view may be it can be not that bad. I will explain this with an example.

Currently, Hermosillo is living scarcity. Why? Because there is no water to support the population and the bussinesses. Due to this we have a bad situation in all matters, so we can say that Scarcity is bad for us. Now, if we analyze the situation we can notice that because of the problem many people is starting to talk, and the government to give ideas and programs in order to solve the problem. The thing here is that this problem is giving us an opportunity to change, to improve our city and our society. Yes, scarcity is bad and harmful; but eventhough it damages, it can also helps us; because with the problem the government can look for the best solutions for its city and its people, and more important it can make that people start to care about things, about resources, about water.

Scarcity is really bad, but may be it is necessary in order to make people change and take care about the problems and about all things. As a friend wrote in the blog, if we could have all perfectly, the world will never change or improve. Because there's no reason to. But with scarcity and with problems, it is prooved that people changes and starts making things in order to improve and have the less possible problems. This means that a problem give us many bad things, but they open many windows of opportunities. Opportunities that if we take them and make them, the world will improve and the problem will be over or decreased.

We have to change the way of looking problems. I know they are bad, scarcity is. But we need to think that problems have a reason of being; which is to help and to change or improve the world. Without problems we couldn't have solutions, which are essential in human life. Because thanks to many solutions in history, we are what we are. We looked for solutions in a problem, that plus solving the problem, they also make us change and improve.

So Scarcity is good or bad? Or better yet, how can we convert it to a good and positive thing? If we solve the problem with the best solutions and actions, we are making Scarcity a good thing.

An ideal world?

Can you imagine a world without scarcity? Living a life with no preoccupations to find new resources! It sounds amazing right? Maybe it could be an ideal world. But… have you analyzed all aspects if this could occur?

Due to our class I wondered what it would be if we could have everything. I think people would get used to have all things without making an effort, they wouldn’t try to find or create new things, because what is the purpose of innovating if everything has the same value? Maybe I could sound a little negative by saying that we need to have scarcity to live life correctly, but I think that it is true. We must lack of things to succeed and get prepared to make a change.

I think that society’s behavior would change, because they wouldn’t want to work because they can already live with the things they get in life. So they wouldn’t continue studying to be better, and that affect education. Children wouldn’t go to schools because they will always be in the same social class and they can have a good life in the future. So I think that many jobs will disappear (teachers, scientist, engineers, etc). And also because everything has the same value and everywhere has infinite resources, money would disappear.

TANDEO: A good or bad strategy

I woke-up today, and I went to the bathroom: I opened the faucet to wash my face, and BOOM NO WATER! I got frustated, and started to think: Why is water being rationed? Why is water scarce in our city while in Mazatlan they can even drink from the faucet's water? Why are WE, Mexicans, so unworried for our city's future, and for our generation's future?

The scarcity of water is a global issue; however, the proposed solutions have not had an impact in society. We need to make conscience in the citizens for them to care of our planet. To care and appropiately use the few water that we have.

The causes of water scarcity are both: caused by nature, and caused by human being. I understand that we are not able to control nature, but we do are able to care of our activities, which would affect either positively or negatively our planet.

Water contamination and misuse of water are just some of the causes of our new TANDEO.

The river that supplies water to Hermosillo is the Sonora river, as well as our reservoir located at the south of the city (this is not a very good option because most of the time our reservoir is totally EMPTY: we can even see animals eating of the grass that has grown in it). Obviously, these water supplies are not being enough. Moreover, the high temperatures and low precipitation that exist in our zone, makes this problem even worst, to the point that even building a desalinization plant is being considered. However, a desalinization plant is a too-costly well structured plan that is being analized with the purpose of finding a new way to get the salt off of the water in a cheaper way.

Meanwhile, the government (instituion in charge of the water company: COAPAES) has taken the desicion of water rationing: A process in which the citizens have water in their houses for a certain period of time depending on the part of the place where they live. This new system has changed our lives totally because humans need water to survive, so we use it almost in every activity.

If you ask to any person who lives in the city of Hermosillo what do they think about the TANDEO, most of them would quickly answer that the are against it. Howver, if they would think a little bit more about the reasons of the tandeo I hope most of them would answer that it is a good strategy to concientize the citizens for the to value what they have while they have it.

What about a world without scarcity?

We define scarcity as the economic problem in which a resource is limited and it is not able to supply the human needs. The most important scarce resources we have are oil and water. Oil is very necessary because it is mainly used to produce gasoline. Water is ultra-necesarry because it is an essential component for the human being to live.

But, a good question discussed in economy class was: What would the world be like if there was no scarcity? How would humans behave? Would it either affect or benefy society?

I have come up with a series of possible consequences that can occur if we would be living in a world without scarcity. Some of them are:

- People would have no sense of life. Because humans would have all the quantity of the resources they would use them crazily.

- Pollution: People would be using the resources crazily; that would change the people's behavior, so they would start contaminating everywhere.

- Work: Because people would easily get the resources, they would become lazy. There would be a lot of resources so prices would be lower, so they would need to work less.

- No conflicts and wars: What is the main cause of wars? Resources. If resources are plentiful, people would not have the need of creating conflicts for becoming the owner of resources.

- Overpopulation: Parents would not have the need to be always working, so they would spend most of their time in house; this would cause families having lots of kids because they have everything, they have nothing to do, and they think they can provide their kids everything.

- No social classes??: I have come uo with two possible results.

Social classes would not exist anymore because resources would be plentiful and the government would be able to organize and distribute them appropiately.

Social classes would become more evident because resources would continue concentrating in higher classes maing rich people richer, and poor people poorer.

If you carefully analize the above possible consequences, they are all related with economics. This is because scarcity is the basis of economics.

In conclusion, do you think it is a good idea a world in which there is no scarcity? Do you think it would benefy us or it would affect us?

I think that having no scarcity brings up more positive consequences that negative ones, so I would really like to live in a world like that.

TANDEO

What do you think of when I say WATER? probably in the same thing I do "lack of water" and if you live in Hermosillo in TANDEO.

Water is a big issue in the world, no country has enought water for its people, exept maybe for Canada, and even they know water is a limited resource.

So, how does this affects me directly? well, in my particular case it doesn´t affects me that much because I have a tinaco, but it still changes some things like that we can only do our laundry in the afternoons (when the sun is really HOT!!!), the same goes for the dishes and my little garden isn´t that nice anymore. But to others it affects them even more because they don´t have tinacos and they have to adapt their shedules to their water hours, like for instance if the boy was used to shower himself in the mornings now he has to do it in the night and vice-versa.

Since we have no big water supplies near the city there is no other option than to rationalize water at the moment.

Maybe the real solution for us is to build a desaladora. The problem is that we also don´t have money to build one; then for Hermosillo´s people at this moment there no other choice than to adapt.

NO TO THE TANDEO!!!!!

I am veeeeeeeeerry disappointed with our municipality. I had never in my life experienced what is the “tandeo” because in the neighborhood where I live we had NEVER have the lack of water. But this morning, at 9 o’clock, THERE WAS NO WATER AT HOME!!! I tried to get into the shower because I needed to go to Samantha’s house to do our math guide and I couldn’t take a shower. I never go out of my house without showering first. I was very, very, VERY EXTREMELY mad!!
Water in my neighborhood was never lacking because we have a special service. I really don’t know what happened today. This is not fair! And what about our representative’s house? Do you think that the tandeo also affects him? I don’t think so… and don’t you see all the leakages all around the city? Instead of implementing this tandeo stuff, the government should do something to repair those leakages!!
Instead, all we need to do in order for the tandeos to stop being implemented is to START BEING CONSCIOUS OF OUT WATER SCARCITY!

We are running out of water

As we know, the scarcity of water in the world is a big problem, i’m going to focus on the one in Sonora. In the past years, this problem have become worst. More of 10 of the 72 municipalities of Sonora suffer of a extreme scarcity of water, what, in some way, changes the way people act. Since a long time ago, we’ve been digging wells to take out water from the subsoil, but we are running out of that water too.

As we are having problems with water, it is been control really well. That’s why “TANDEO” started. People is not conscious of the big problem we are having and they use it as if it is forever. That’s why I think that one of the solutiones and actions (the tandeos) it will have positive results because with this way of life, people it’s starting to realize that water is not forever and is taking care of it, trying to use less, to shower faster. What we need to save the planet is this kind of actions and actitud. We need this way of thinking, this way of living...looking foward to see a better world, to save the planet. What do we need? .. This way of life, of caring about our planet, should be taught to our generation and the ones coming.

Here is an interesting video about it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhvdvgpJKuM

Water rationing?

An important problem that we have been facing in Hermosillo is the water rationing. Although our state has ocean we don’t have the technology to use saltwater, so water is scarce due to the lack of rain. The government to solve this problem has come with the idea of water rationing.

I think that this is a bad idea because the only moment when people don’t use water is in the night, and in some parts of the city they do this water rationing at night. Also, I think that this is a bad idea because people get prepared with water before they ration it, so they use the same amount of water. In the only case that I would be in favor with water rationing is when there are licks, and water is being misused. Besides, I don’t think thayt this is an alternative that could work. They should get new ideas, maybe they could get alliances with other states to give them water.

Looking For Water

Had the future already reached us? This is a question I always ask when I forget that at 11 p.m. I don't have water anymore at home at that hour. The cistern of my house isn't woriking so well, so I have to watch out the clock and be sure to finish all the things I have to do with water before 11 p.m. reaches me. That's when I started really appreciating this valuable resource. Do we always have to loss something in order to appreciate it? I think the answer is yes, especially vital resources that have a lot of uses. I really miss the times when I always count on water to be there for me whenever I want. Sadly, the mistreatment of it and the location of this city doesn't help the situation. It's really uncomfrtable to really go this extent. I think that the previous authorities didn't really think of this issue, and now it's very easy to them to apply this measurements so everyone can have access to it. Can the lack of rains in this little city be related to the whole global warming issue out there? Maybe it is. This can only be the beginning of the climate change chaos, if we continue on the same path. And, I can recall, we depend hugely in this resource. But, can we do something to help the situation or do we have to wait for the government to do something? I think that at least we can treat better this type of vital resources. Just use the quantity that is needed. There are some tips we can all follow. For example, water the plants and grass at night avoids the water from being evaporated so quickly, especially with the intense heat we get in the summer. Another problem I found is that if we only get from 6-14 hours of water a day, should we pay less for it? I think that no. I always have thought that electricity costs are very high compared to the cheap facture we receive of the water. I think we should pay it backwards. Water is clearly more important than electricity. First of all, we can live without it! Electricity has also its importance, but let's wait some time in order to see our priorities with the effects this will cause. Also, the city of Hermosillo is growing very quickly. How can we assure this resource if the city is expanding each day? Not only the goverment should do something, even though they "promised" water; but we, as part of this community, beware of the use we give to the water. We souldn't play with nature. I hope we don't finish buying bottled water to take a bath, watch dishes, water plants, personal hygiene, etc.

"The Scarcity of Water" is affecting Hermosillo

It’s very important to know that Hermosillo is having terrible problems with the “Scarcity of Water” . It is consider the biggest and worst crisis in the country. (this was said by: the CNA’S director). The plan that they imposed, it’s only for three years. They spend approximately 200 millions of pesos, but even though that it has been a great amount of money; the result wasn’t for such a long time.

They have said that the solution to this problem is: by getting more wells or by constructing a desalination plant. But we have heard these solutions for years and unfortunately we don’t have enough money to make such things.

So, we are really living a crisis, and even though we have been affected by the economic crisis, we can see that Hermosillo is suffering great consequences by not having the enough water to live. If some of us are having insignificant problems with water, imagine the people that don’t even have a drop to drink or clean themselves.