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Turnquiet posted:Not gonna lie, one of pluses of getting moved to Virginia from Phoenix was that I would get out of an area that was a walking water crisis. Spending the previous 20 years in Phoenix taught me to appreciate water, loathe golf courses, and fear for the longevity of the West. golf courses are the cadillac welfare queens of water conservation.
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Nathilus posted:We already can drink seawater the process to make it drinkable is merely too expensive to make most places consider doing it rather than draining the local aquifer for pennies. They are building a desalination plant in California and the estimates are that water from it (which can support 10% of the local water-need) is 80% more expensive than the water shipped in from the colorado river basin. There are other places that already use the technology, but it's universally because logistically speaking they don't have any other choice. Once again the bottom line is in the way of progress. Yeah it's important to remember that "we can't do x" usually means "we can't do x at the current price, but the new price might not be too much higher than today".
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V. Illych L. posted:do people live in the places with annual rainfall of over four thousand millimeters? because holy lol that is a lot of rain i've been in the part of Oregon that has that much and no, they don't really. It also never really stops raining though.
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