Much like food, this generally continues to be a problem on the horizon that we are wholly dependent on engineering and science to solve.
Pray those smartest among us can find a viable, affordable solution. Particularly for poor nations that will suffer the most.
This is why I enjoy living where I do. I have three wells on my property that go down to different depths (up to 600 feet) that nobody but me can shut off and a water table that's super high. I won't have a lack of water anytime soon.
But I was told that this is = communism which is = gulags because stalinThis is a perfect example of why basic necessities such as water, food, healthcare, & housing should be regulated to prevent profiteering, if not completely controlled by the state.
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...and there's probably hundreds more.
i think the fact that a majority of people in the world believe this pretty much makes that dystopian water-scarce future very likely to happen. i feel like our current civilization will be the one that a future civilization will discover amid ruins and study as an example of what not to do.But I was told that this is = communism which is = gulags because stalin
"future civilization" loli think the fact that a majority of people in the world believe this pretty much makes that dystopian water-scarce future very likely to happen. i feel like our current civilization will be the one that a future civilization will discover amid ruins and study as an example of what not to do.
Canada will sell you water. How many barrels would you like to order?
Yeah I agree with this. The sooner we get abundant energy, the sooner we will solve this.Much like food, this generally continues to be a problem on the horizon that we are wholly dependent on engineering and science to solve.
Pray those smartest among us can find a viable, affordable solution. Particularly for poor nations that will suffer the most.
Hah, jokes on them. We would have used up all the easy access fossil fuel by then.i think the fact that a majority of people in the world believe this pretty much makes that dystopian water-scarce future very likely to happen. i feel like our current civilization will be the one that a future civilization will discover amid ruins and study as an example of what not to do.
Eh, these places have plenty of sunlight. California is widely investing in solar and has easy access to the ocean. If anything it will be NIMBYS that will kill Cali, not lack water lol. I was I was kidding about the NIMBY part tho.I think a lot of people will be surprised how populations shift over the next 30 years.
Unless there's a breakthrough in cheap desalination and powering said desalination plants, I think we'll see huge population shifts from southern California, Vegas, and Phoenix to basically central TX and eastward. Water from the Mississippi irrigated to major cities 500 miles west. The rust belt redone. A surprising population increase in Alaska. All because of water.
All Lives Matter!!!If you can't earn money you don't deserve to live. God bless the USA
Kinda tangential here, but an idle thought I've had for a long time...
I've felt like there will soon become some massive technical solution for regionalized water problems... or at least that a massive technical solution becomes more realistic cost wise given the rising cost of water problems. WIth the affect of climate change you'll have concurrent stories dominating the new of droughts in the (US) Southwest and Southeast, and floods in the midwest and plains. Now, sure, there's a massive mountain range and insane logistical costs that prevent the surplus in one area from alleviating the drought in the other, but ... I'm starting to think as extremes become more ... extreme ... when we tally up the total damage caused by both extremes (insurance), that pre-emptive technological solutions become more realistic. The north east US is mostly reaching water capacity in its reservoirs ... The largest reservoir in New England, the Quabbin system in central Mass (provides public water to Boston and major metro areas around it), has reached record capacities successive years in a row, and the reservoir is currently at max capacity now, draining off into the Swift/Connecticut river system, and yet, 12-24 hour drives away there are localized water shortages at the same time of year. Now, obviously, this is a logistical "impossibility" today because of cost, but as localized/regionalized water shortages become more dire the cost of those shortages increases and the cost of damage (insurance) can make pre-emptive investment more reasonable.
It's one of those ideas that's batted around in my head that if I were a billionaire who wiped my butt with money I'd throw $10b into cost analysis research.
It's not, it's just that anything that is presented without opinion or editorial makes 40% of this forum go into an illogical rage, and being a newspaper, the NYT usually reports stories like this without editorializing on it. I'm sure in the coming days and weeks they'll run editorials about it that have opinions, but that's not enough... for a growing number of people the news has to be editorialized these days or else it's evil.
Eh, these places have plenty of sunlight. California is widely investing in solar and has easy access to the ocean. If anything it will be NIMBYS that will kill Cali, not lack water lol. I was I was kidding about the NIMBY part tho.
Rip Vegas and Phoenix tho.
Yeah, the solution is called wide-spread MSR-based nuclear power/heat generation.
Latest gen nuclear power solves almost all of the climate, environmental, and scarce commodity resource issues we have globally. But people hear "nuclear" and they shut down immediately. It's the most depressing thing when you know exactly how to solve many of the world's most difficult problems but there isn't the political will or informed understanding of the technological options on a broad basis to do so.
"They" do, it just costs too energy right now.Why don't they invest in desalination tech. It's expensive and inefficient now but that seems like an obvious next step.
Buy NSTL. I should warn you though, when the water wars start NSTL's going to have to fight off a lot of poor, dehydrated people.
Yeah we have so many options. We already have the tech to do all of this. The question is political will.Yeah, the solution is called wide-spread MSR-based nuclear power/heat generation.
Latest gen nuclear power solves almost all of the climate, environmental, and scarce commodity resource issues we have globally. But people hear "nuclear" and they shut down immediately. It's the most depressing thing when you know exactly how to solve many of the world's most difficult problems but there isn't the political will or informed understanding of the technological options on a broad basis to do so.
Because desalination via distillation is relatively cheap via MSRs, all other alternatives being considered. Once MSRs are mainstreamed with a small, modular, mass produced design, the sky is the limit because thorium fuel is so abundant, cheap, ubiquitous, and energy dense. Oh yeah, it can also burn the "nuclear waste" from LWRs down to almost nothing, all while extracting tons of energy/heat in the process. The tiny amount of waste left over is only harmful 2 to 3 hundred years rather than 10s of thousands.I'm completely ignorant here, how does MSR (Molten Salt?) nuclear power/heat gen affect/solve water scarcity and abundance problems?