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You don't believe the KGB, MI6, the Iranians and North Koreans don't have moles in the NSA/CIA/FBI piping all the the data on Americans to their bosses????

Only the Chinese deserve to be scolded by Obama. . . . . for being even better at mining our communications for hard data useful to them on all of us.
 
OK, I got a call today.

An invitation to come to a conference in San Francisco and talk about Western (USA) water needs, what sites that could be targeted for desal plants. . . .
 
Economics of Desal water. . . .

The cost of producing potable/agricultural water from seawater is now less than developing municipal water generally from stressed natural sources. . . .

II Cost Trends
The unit costs for desalination processes have fallen considerably over the last three decades3
. Figure 1
further exemplifies the downward trend4
.
Figure 1
SWRO Cost Trend5
* Water costs for San Diego, Monterey, Perth, Sydney, and Barcelona
As shown in Figure 2, there is also an economy of scale cost-benefit associated with increasing plant
capacity to effectively lessen membrane desalination plant unit construction costs.


https://www.watereuse.org/sites/default/files/u8/WateReuse_Desal_Cost_White_Paper.pdf
 
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?
 
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.
 
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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.
 
basically, the reality is that anyone who wants water has gotta get into this discussion, sooner than later. . . . . because our world is a' changin'. . . . on the fast track.
 
many view fresh water supplies stretched beyond any hope, and see the litigation/lawmaking/battlelines in the starkest and direst terms. . . . unsustainable. . . .
 
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