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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 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.
 
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.
 
here's something interesting you may not have thought of or known before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GBegxApYLwU
 
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