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>Then when people from the south start mass-migrating maybe things will change It won't be people from the South, it'll be people from the Southwest and Califo
by anonfordays 2y ago
>Then when people from the south start mass-migrating maybe things will change
It won't be people from the South, it'll be people from the Southwest and California mass-migrating after they run out of water.
>And why water intensive manufacturing is locating in places like Texas
Do you think Texas is all desert? Huge swaths of Texas the size of other states get over 50 inches of rain a year. Plentiful high flow rivers all around make it a perfect place for water intensive manufacturing.
- function_seven 2y ago> it'll be people from the Southwest and California mass-migrating after they run out of water. I've always assumed that the cost to build desalination plants along the coast would be peanuts compared to the costs of letting our water supplies dry up and force a mass migration of tens of millions of people. It won't exactly be cheap, but a lot cheaper than the alternative.
- anonfordays 2y agoOnly if the energy prices in California (highest in the continental US) come down and desalinization becomes less energy intensive. It may make sense to use desalinized water for human consumption, but likely won't be cheap enough for water intensive agriculture and manufacturing.