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Fun fact: A good number of Greek islands end up using desalination. E.g. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/partner-content-where-our-water-goe

Fun fact: A good number of Greek islands end up using desalination. E.g. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/partner-content-where-our-water-goes-greece#:~:text=Greece%20already%20has%20enough%20desalination,island%20with%20complete%20water%20autonomy https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/partner-c.... And this is not by choice: Greece has to deal with extreme volatility in resource consumption throughout the year. Add to that it has ~6000 islands (around 200 being inhabited year round -- 227 as I google). And the tourist island/islet focus changes throughout the years. With this context, there can be no "I will create a pipeline of fresh water" or any other project like that really.

yodelshady 3y ago
Right, islands (and Israel) normally do because there's not the space for a large enough reservoir. We're playing silly buggers with economics again here; when it's rainy, "DeSaL iS uNcOmPeTiTiVe", because the "market rate" for water is pennies per meter cubed. Except, oh wait; suddenly it's dry, the "market rate" skyrockets" and large parts of your economy collapse. The "market rate" was always giving a massive* surplus to consumers, and now it's gone. This is A Bad Thing. Turns out it would have been better to have a slightly more expensive water source that was reliable. This fact is somehow obvious to everyone except economists, who should (at least in Europe) be called out as frauds for universally advocating along such idiotic lines.