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There is enough fresh water out there. The problem is that most countries are not building infrastructure to take advantage of it.
by csomar 3y ago
There is enough fresh water out there. The problem is that most countries are not building infrastructure to take advantage of it.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoCost / benefit, but also, reserves are running low. Worldwide there's news about how underground aquifers are emptying out faster than they naturally restore. That's relatively easy and low cost to acquire, once that is no longer an option, water will explode in price. I'm confident that in our generation we'll see mass migrations due to water shortages in the west. California is already at risk, I gathered.
- Tangurena2 3y agoIt is also mostly in "the wrong place". I keep reading about these fantasies of pumping water from large rivers in the MidWest (like the Missouri or Mississippi) to the deserts of Utah or Arizona. The altitude difference is enormous - every drop of water would have to be pumped uphill at least one mile in altitude to get it from, say Kansas City (which is about 800 feet above sea level) up over the Rockies into the places were people should not be living. And what makes it worse is that the majority of water used in those states goes towards agriculture (82% in the case of Utah), where farmers pay less than 1% of the cost of the water they use.
- carlosjobim 3y ago> It is also mostly in "the wrong place". It's not the water that is in the wrong place. People are not supposed to live in places that can't sustain their numbers.