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Probably a good time to remind people that this entire planet is 70% water. Water shortage shouldn't be a thing, but greed and short sightedness is.
by new_guy 5y ago
Probably a good time to remind people that this entire planet is 70% water. Water shortage shouldn't be a thing, but greed and short sightedness is.
- Cthulhu_ 5y agoProbably a good time to remind people that only 3% of that is fresh water. Fresh water shortage is definitely a thing.
- coldacid 5y agoDesalinization is a thing, and one that's often overlooked because the people holding the purse strings are generally cheap-asses.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoDesalination requires high energy inputs. It also creates highly salted water as waste (some gets cleaned, other water gets i cleaned) that is difficult to deal with. Given cheap energy and somewhere to store the waste water, it could be viable.
- NineStarPoint 5y agoDesalinization is an extremely energy intensive process for the amount of water we use. Eventually we probably will produce so much energy that that’s less of a concern, but at the moment we’re having plenty of issues getting our fossil fuel usages lowered without adding Desalinization to our civilization’s requirements.
- standardUser 5y agoDesalination can be achieved using the cheapest energy source there is, solar.
- thrashh 5y agoIt’s not greed and shortsightedness. It’s logistics. Logistics is expensive af
- matheusmoreira 5y ago> Water shortage shouldn't be a thing, but greed and short sightedness is. Yup. We'll never ever run out of water. Whatever problems arise, there are solutions for them. People just don't want to pay. They want it cheap and convenient.
- pope_meat 5y agoI don't want to be priced out of the water market the same way I got priced out of the housing market. But then again, sacrifices must be made to the profit gods, it is the way. Sigh.
- matheusmoreira 5y agoWater should be a basic human right. No human should ever be priced out. Whatever infrastructure is needed to bring potable water to people, the government should pay for it. The whole point of governments is to pay for basic infrastructure like this. Taxes ought to fund something other than politician corruption. Corporations on the other hand have no human rights at all. They can and should be priced out.
- TimTheTinker 5y ago> The whole point of governments is to pay for basic infrastructure like this. That's a pretty steep oversimplification there. Governments usually exist to promote justice and rule-of-law, keep people safe from internal and external threats to their physical safety, and to protect individual freedoms and liberty. Paying for infrastructure is only a small part of all of that.
- brewdad 5y agoWouldn't ensuring a reliable supply of safe drinking water fall under keeping people safe from threats to their physical safety?
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