Drinking Problem
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I know this is dumb to say, but I really see water as the thing the world will fight over in the next 100 years.
@89th said in Drinking Problem:
I know this is dumb to say, but I really see water as the thing the world will fight over in the next 100 years.
IOW, countries that have built cities where there's insufficient water will demand that countries with their own water need to give it to them.
Take Las Vegas, for example. A bunch of criminals build a city there because the land is ridiculously cheap. "And why is the land cheap?", I hear you ask. BECAUSE THERE'S NO FREAKING WATER, DUMBASS!
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I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.
It's a desert. No one should have grass and all that other stuff. Hardscape FTW.
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I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.
It's a desert. No one should have grass and all that other stuff. Hardscape FTW.
@mik said in Drinking Problem:
I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.
Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.
Please love yourself.
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@mik said in Drinking Problem:
I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.
Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.
@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.
I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?
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@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.
I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?
@catseye3 said in Drinking Problem:
@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.
I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?
If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, there are many, many manufacturing processes that require it.
I don't think that's the bottleneck. My guess is it's the desalination and distribution itself that holds it back. It's likely an energy and infrastructure problem.
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@catseye3 said in Drinking Problem:
@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.
I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?
If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, there are many, many manufacturing processes that require it.
I don't think that's the bottleneck. My guess is it's the desalination and distribution itself that holds it back. It's likely an energy and infrastructure problem.
@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, t
How much would they pay for polluted sea salt?
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@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, t
How much would they pay for polluted sea salt?
@catseye3 said in Drinking Problem:
@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, t
How much would they pay for polluted sea salt?
Why does it have to stay polluted?
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@catseye3 said in Drinking Problem:
@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
If by some fluke you can't find scads of hipsters in LA to pay top dollar for sea salt, t
How much would they pay for polluted sea salt?
Why does it have to stay polluted?
@aqua-letifer How much water would be required to unpollute it?
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@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.
I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?
@catseye3 said in Drinking Problem:
@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.
I always thought desalinization was one obvious answer (not problem free, to be sure), but I came upon one problem with this that I hadn't considered before: what to do with the salt. Desalinization produces huge amounts of salt; what do you do with it?
Put it back into the sea. the water will end up there again.
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@mik said in Drinking Problem:
I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.
Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.
@aqua-letifer said in Drinking Problem:
@mik said in Drinking Problem:
I always said I did not know when the end of the world would be, but I knew where it would start - Los Angeles. A metro area of what now, 15 million? That doesn't have enough water for a million people. I was always amazed at how much automatic watering was done with all that imported water.
Pump it in from the sea. It's their only option long-term.
The company that has the largest plant in the Western Hemisphere has already put forth a proposal for L.A. The plant: https://www.carlsbaddesal.com/
