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I tried looking up Los Angeles total water usage. Saw a historic table that had number around 500,000 to 600,000 acre feet per year. Fairly steady since 1970.
by Gibbon1 5y ago
I tried looking up Los Angeles total water usage. Saw a historic table that had number around 500,000 to 600,000 acre feet per year. Fairly steady since 1970.
That's about 180 billion gallons a year. Divide by days per year and LA's population you get 123 gallons a day. But that includes industrial.
Either way guesstimating the cost of desalinization, I think it'd be about $170/per person a year. Call it $500/year per household. Water bill $40/month. Steep but not impossible.
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- JohnHaugeland 5y agoThere's more to a city's water use than civilian use, and there's a lot more to California than LA There's no need to guesstimate. San Diego desalinates. They're almost the cheapest in the country, at about five times your estimate cost
- downrightmike 5y agoDesalination isn't the greatest, even the Saudi bought unlimited water usage right in Arizona to grow alfalfa and ship it back home. https://gulfif.org/arizona-arabia-alfalfa-lessons-from-the-gulf-for-a-southwestern-water-crisis/ https://gulfif.org/arizona-arabia-alfalfa-lessons-from-the-g...
- JohnHaugeland 5y agoThat's because they can't build nuclear reactors. We can.
- downrightmike 5y agoThey still have to dump the concentrate into the ocean responsibly.
- JohnHaugeland 5y agoI mean, they don't, though It's a large nuclear heat source. You can just boil it down to sea salt, then sell it or put it into a cave