ARmy Rumour SErvice

**rampant** · 21-10-2009, 10:51

Originally Posted by Walt_waltberg_walterton

Take Yemen for example a nation of approx 60Million men, all given an Ak47 at birth. A water situation that is going south very quickly. No real government to control the population. One border with Saudi...

What happens when there water runs out? I feel sorry for Saudi, they should in theory welcome the people of Yemen as they are the same religious sect. Unlikely... yes very, its more likely they will close up and end up having to attempt to control numbers crossing over.

Personally 60 Million armed men with little or nothing to loose, attempting to get into a nation that has it all is not what i call a good mix.

I think you'll find Yemen has a population less than 25million:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen

**angular** · 21-10-2009, 10:52

Originally Posted by Walt_waltberg_walterton

Take Yemen for example a nation of approx 60Million men, all given an Ak47 at birth. A water situation that is going south very quickly. No real government to control the population. One border with Saudi...

What happens when there water runs out? I feel sorry for Saudi, they should in theory welcome the people of Yemen as they are the same religious sect. Unlikely... yes very, its more likely they will close up and end up having to attempt to control numbers crossing over.

Personally 60 Million armed men with little or nothing to loose, attempting to get into a nation that has it all is not what i call a good mix.

A stupid person might suggest that the Saudi's might be able to see that problem coming, and then do without gold bath-taps for a while to sort out their neighbours' problems. An act of charity, and an opportunity to prevent an invasion of poor, angry people.

**Jungelism** · 21-10-2009, 10:58

Originally Posted by re-stilly

Surely this is where places like Scotland/Norway/Finland could actually cash in by laying a water pipe to these places and actually have a viable export.

Thousands upon thousands of miles of pipes requiring hundreds of pumping stations at £X million each, running across tens of sovereign nations all requiring trade deals etc to even begin negotiating over the use of their soil...

Flawless plan :D

**Walt_waltberg_walterton** · 21-10-2009, 10:59

Originally Posted by angular

Originally Posted by Walt_waltberg_walterton

Take Yemen for example a nation of approx 60Million men, all given an Ak47 at birth. A water situation that is going south very quickly. No real government to control the population. One border with Saudi...

What happens when there water runs out? I feel sorry for Saudi, they should in theory welcome the people of Yemen as they are the same religious sect. Unlikely... yes very, its more likely they will close up and end up having to attempt to control numbers crossing over.

Personally 60 Million armed men with little or nothing to loose, attempting to get into a nation that has it all is not what i call a good mix.

A stupid person might suggest that the Saudi's might be able to see that problem coming, and then do without gold bath-taps for a while to sort out their neighbours' problems. An act of charity, and an opportunity to prevent an invasion of poor, angry people.

They have seen it coming, but there response was different. Instead they have employed a number of other nations to start to monitor the situation there very closely! What will be the end result im far to low in the chain to predict.

**re-stilly** · 21-10-2009, 11:01

Originally Posted by Jungelism

Originally Posted by re-stilly

Surely this is where places like Scotland/Norway/Finland could actually cash in by laying a water pipe to these places and actually have a viable export.

Thousands upon thousands of miles of pipes requiring hundreds of pumping stations at £X million each, running across tens of sovereign nations all requiring trade deals etc to even begin negotiating over the use of their soil...

Flawless plan :D

Alternatively run them under the Sea to Gib, pumping station there to Malta??
from there they could be split to supply the countries required. Only need Malta's support, give them discounted or free no of Litres per annum would probably be OK

**Jungelism** · 21-10-2009, 11:10

Originally Posted by re-stilly

Originally Posted by Jungelism

Originally Posted by re-stilly

Surely this is where places like Scotland/Norway/Finland could actually cash in by laying a water pipe to these places and actually have a viable export.

Thousands upon thousands of miles of pipes requiring hundreds of pumping stations at £X million each, running across tens of sovereign nations all requiring trade deals etc to even begin negotiating over the use of their soil...

Flawless plan :D

Alternatively run them under the Sea to Gib, pumping station there to Malta??
from there they could be split to supply the countries required. Only need Malta's support, give them discounted or free no of Litres per annum would probably be OK

I'm not quite sure you've realised how broke UK PLC is. We don't have the money to put pipe anywhere, especially not around continental Europe. As for other nations, the capital investment required would be astronomical. Definitely unfeasible.

Edited to add: have you forgotten the hosepipe bans of the '90s and early Noughties? We don't have a huge amount of water to give away ourselves.

**re-stilly** · 21-10-2009, 11:14

Originally Posted by Jungelism

Originally Posted by re-stilly

Originally Posted by Jungelism

Originally Posted by re-stilly

Surely this is where places like Scotland/Norway/Finland could actually cash in by laying a water pipe to these places and actually have a viable export.

Thousands upon thousands of miles of pipes requiring hundreds of pumping stations at £X million each, running across tens of sovereign nations all requiring trade deals etc to even begin negotiating over the use of their soil...

Flawless plan :D

Alternatively run them under the Sea to Gib, pumping station there to Malta??
from there they could be split to supply the countries required. Only need Malta's support, give them discounted or free no of Litres per annum would probably be OK

I'm not quite sure you've realised how broke UK PLC is. We don't have the money to put pipe anywhere, especially not around continental Europe. As for other nations, the capital investment required would be astronomical. Definitely unfeasible.

Edited to add: have you forgotten the hosepipe bans of the '90s and early Noughties? We don't have a huge amount of water to give away ourselves.

OK I accept defeat. but surely there must be water rich areas such as the Himalayas where water can be piped or extracted.

**johnboyzzz** · 21-10-2009, 11:15

Originally Posted by Jungelism

Originally Posted by re-stilly

Originally Posted by Jungelism

Originally Posted by re-stilly

Surely this is where places like Scotland/Norway/Finland could actually cash in by laying a water pipe to these places and actually have a viable export.

Thousands upon thousands of miles of pipes requiring hundreds of pumping stations at £X million each, running across tens of sovereign nations all requiring trade deals etc to even begin negotiating over the use of their soil...

Flawless plan :D

Alternatively run them under the Sea to Gib, pumping station there to Malta??
from there they could be split to supply the countries required. Only need Malta's support, give them discounted or free no of Litres per annum would probably be OK

I'm not quite sure you've realised how broke UK PLC is. We don't have the money to put pipe anywhere, especially not around continental Europe. As for other nations, the capital investment required would be astronomical. Definitely unfeasible.

Edited to add: have you forgotten the hosepipe bans of the '90s and early Noughties? We don't have a huge amount of water to give away ourselves.

We have loads up here, I am sure we could sell you some

**re-stilly** · 21-10-2009, 11:16

Thinking about it they already do this with gas and oil so why not water, surely can't be no more expensive than that. So I take back the defeat comment

**Jungelism** · 21-10-2009, 11:19

Originally Posted by re-stilly

Thinking about it they already do this with gas and oil so why not water, surely can't be no more expensive than that. So I take back the defeat comment

Its not a battle, just a discussion! There's far more money involved with oil and gas, the people who really need water (massive generalisation) are in extremely poor "Global South" nations who simply can't afford the costs of putting in a multi-billion dollar pipeline. Everyone wants oil, and will pay through the nose to get it.