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Drought-stricken US warned of looming 'dead pool'
- nonrandomstring 4y ago> A once-in-a-lifetime drought in the western part of the US Did they mean, a for the rest of your lifetime drought in the western part of the US? This is where the right to repair bill was killed by a corrupt senate committee [1] as the area ups semiconductor and device manufacture. Reuse and recycling could obviate the unnecessary production of millions of devices that each require hundreds or thousands of litres of water [2][3]. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31558875 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31558875 [2] https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-much-water-did-it-take-to-make-your-cellular-phone https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-much-water-did-it-take-to-make... [3] https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/thirsty-business-how-tech-industry-bracing-water-scarce-future https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/thirsty-business-how-t...