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Lack of fresh water in the US is a solvable issue. We have oceans all around us and the US has the know-how to ship fresh, desalinated water from the coast to m
by cobookman 5y ago
Lack of fresh water in the US is a solvable issue. We have oceans all around us and the US has the know-how to ship fresh, desalinated water from the coast to middle america.
- orwin 5y agoNot for agricultural use in the Midwest, that the current issue. I mean, this is an issue right now, not in 20 years. BTW, this issue is solvable if everyone agree that meat should be rationned: no corn and some GMO wheat to produce carbs for human consumption only, a lot more vegetables and more forestry could do the trick.
- cobookman 5y agoUS uses 118B gallons of water/day in agricultural usage. Desal costs about 2k/acre-foot (325,851 gallons). That's ~724MM/day in water costs or 264B/year for water. US GDP is 21 Trillion. As cost of water increases, conservation becomes more economical. Say all agriculture switches to hydroponics as a result. Hydroponics uses 1/10th the water of traditional methods...so we're talking now just 26B/year of water costs. In 2017 US farms spent 359B on operations. Food will become more expensive, but overall we'll be fine.