I'd like to just copy the bar graphs in this "white paper" showing the cost of producing desal water now running for larger projects as low as about 55 cents per cubic meter of water. A gallon is about 4 liters, with a liter being the volume of water contained by a cube ten centimeters (0.1m) on an edge. A cubic meter is one thousand liters or 250 gallons. Anyone look at their water bill lately. . . . you are billed I think in units of 100 gallons. Yah, the costs in some areas are less than 11 cents per unit that would be the cost of desal produced from seawater. Anybody got a water bill from a city in California?
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There are two large desal projects under development in California right now. . . one at Carlsbad near San Diego, and one near Monterrey (south of San Francisco). Other projects are going forward around the Gulf and Atlantic coast. In the mideast/mediterranean areas including Israel have developed seawater desal. In Spain, on the med coast, they are providing agricultural water to the area from desal, which is used to grow winter veggies for the European Union.
My dogs use their water tubs to bathe in. Cools their paws on a hot day.
Seriously, what do you pay for your water???
Water Grabs. . . .
The UN is pushing a "treaty" that assigns all water on the planet earth. . . . and presumably elsewhere. . . . to the little committee that will "manage" it globally. Sea, rain, mud, every "stream" or puddle, every droplet of mist. And plans to tax it's uses as well as "arbitrate" user claims.
The UN is pushing a "treaty" that assigns all water on the planet earth. . . . and presumably elsewhere. . . . to the little committee that will "manage" it globally. Sea, rain, mud, every "stream" or puddle, every droplet of mist. And plans to tax it's uses as well as "arbitrate" user claims.
OK, if anyone doubts that the "big thinkers" of the world aren't thinking about water. . . . here is a link just for beginners. . . . .
https://www.unwater.org/policylegal.html
https://www.unwater.org/policylegal.html
Many see this as one of the strongest arguments for population reduction, and oppose further appeals to technological advancements specifically because they see it as leading further into unsustainable territory of "overpopulation".
In another camp, there are those who maintain on reasoned arguments that technology has improved the prospects for all kinds of life worldwide and beyond. . . . every advancement in technology has increased man's viability and ability to carry out beneficial courses of action promoting agriculture, forestry, wildlife management and protection of endangered species, culitivation of every kind of plant and aquatic life. . .. and with a strong space program we can take life to new places in our solar system and beyond. . . .
In another camp, there are those who maintain on reasoned arguments that technology has improved the prospects for all kinds of life worldwide and beyond. . . . every advancement in technology has increased man's viability and ability to carry out beneficial courses of action promoting agriculture, forestry, wildlife management and protection of endangered species, culitivation of every kind of plant and aquatic life. . .. and with a strong space program we can take life to new places in our solar system and beyond. . . .
In the 1960s American engineers laid plans for using nuclear power to facilitate huge pumping operations associated with a huge program for bringing polar-bound fresh water from rivers like the Yukon and other large rivers emptying into the Arctic ocean southward. . . . a series of pumping stations, huge lakes, and canals bringing the water down to the lower 48 states, and as far as Mexico. One feature would be a huge canal/lock system that would convey ocean-going vessels from the Great Lakes to the Pacific. . . . .
On this side of the discussion, more people and higher technology are seen as necessary for raising mankind towards actual survival and the necessary progression to new worlds instead of being trapped in this solar system and doomed to die with it in the comming. . . . oh, maybe five or ten billion years from now. . . . red giant phase of our sun, which will literally engulf this world in that phase.
On this side of the discussion, more people and higher technology are seen as necessary for raising mankind towards actual survival and the necessary progression to new worlds instead of being trapped in this solar system and doomed to die with it in the comming. . . . oh, maybe five or ten billion years from now. . . . red giant phase of our sun, which will literally engulf this world in that phase.
A perhaps more economical and immediately "do-able" approach to supplying necessary water for agricultural, industrial, and municipal use is the desalination of seawater. This is my particular interest, although the technologies dovetail this with the reclamation of wastewater of all kinds as well.
Las Vegas as the Model for our future management of water
Las Vegas, together with Henderson, North Las Vegas, and other areas of Clark County are in the water dominion of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. I have been interested in this area since my father did research at the DRI (Desert Research Institute) and was in some small way involved in the development of water resources for southern Nevada. Well, he was involved in some industrial enterprises as well, including the development of mineral operations based on the brines of the Great Salt Lake.
Las Vegas, together with Henderson, North Las Vegas, and other areas of Clark County are in the water dominion of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. I have been interested in this area since my father did research at the DRI (Desert Research Institute) and was in some small way involved in the development of water resources for southern Nevada. Well, he was involved in some industrial enterprises as well, including the development of mineral operations based on the brines of the Great Salt Lake.
One of the programs SNWA has pursued with good success involves giving a rebate for converting grass areas to desert landscaping. . . .
https://www.snwa.com/rebates/wsl.html
https://www.snwa.com/rebates/wsl.html