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Can Seawater Fix California’s Drought?

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
8 years 3 weeks ago

YouTube description:

How do we make seawater drinkable? And can that technology save California?!

Hosted by: Michael Aranda

(click through for a hundred links to sources (well, 36 anyway))

7 Comments

ant

*water

Adding video to channels (Water) - requested by ant.

Meh, quit living and farming in A FUCKING DESERT...

MilkmanDan says...

Desal can be awesome ... for islands with a high percentage of revenues coming from tourism (lots of Caribbean examples), or for City-States that have high population density and lots of money-making industry (Singapore).

California is *huge*, with lots of revenue coming from agriculture. Not enough tourism per square mile to pass the costs on to visitors, like with Caribbean islands, and not really enough population / commercial density to make it an ideal solution for those uses either.

...On the other hand, economy of scale can't start kicking in until you get some early adopters. By throwing some money at this now, California might be making a smart investment towards having better and cheaper desal options that could fill a higher percentage of their water needs in the future.

Moving this video to oritteropo's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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