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OT: California Dreamin': Density is the Future.
Haven't read the book and probably won't. 2/3 of the planet is covered in water. It's an engineering, cost, and political problem of purification, transport and storage. Read what Israel does https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_...tion_in_Israel. |
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Why “should” it look like that?
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BUT, something has got to be 'done'. The water crisis in the west is not new and will not be solved by rainfall in our lifetimes. Droughts and year long fire seasons are the 'new normal'. Gaia isn't happy.
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OT: California Dreamin': Density is the Future.
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No, there is water reclamation. Golf courses and city parks around here, for example, are watered with reclaimed water. I would expect that to increase but there has to be infrastructure to do so. They are building a desalination plant in my city http://www.antiochbrackishdesal.com Last edited by MikeD; 08-30-2021 at 08:42 AM. |
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Natural state versus man-made/artificial/irrigated state that disrupts natural ecosystem....
But you know that already..... Whether it "should" look like that depends on whether there is enough water to irrigate...it seems that there is not.
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Nature includes people and what we build, like how a beaver dam is natural.
There would be a lot more water if they had finished the california state water project, almost twice as much. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Califo..._Water_Project
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I know that nuclear is safe, the new designs and even the older ones still in operation are inherently safe. If the operator does nothing, the reactor shuts down. But, radiation is scary, Hollywood says so. |
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And it's not the US. It wasn't the reactor's fault in Fukushima and Chernobyl was an inherently unstable design.
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It is pretty for now. |
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I don't know much about water project you reference....but in PNW, we have lots of dams for irrigation (Columbia Basin Reclamation Project) and for hydro-power for electricity. About 75 yrs later....we are seeing problems from habitat destruction ruining salmon runs and other environmental problems....I don't follow it too closely, but many dams are being removed, and no new ones are planned.... Unintended consequences suck.....
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Dams are probably one of the cleanest ways to make power and you get flood control and fresh water out of the deal.
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Wow, just wrong. Tell that to our PNW Native American tribes. And the dams haven't just hurt salmon runs, they have changed entire ecosystems.
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Many were unnecessary in the first place and total boondoggles.
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