Fear spreads in New Orleans as possible saltwater intrusion threatens drinking water

[lapfog_1]

1. some things cannot be fixed with money

at least the amount of money we might have to spend on this.

New Orleans may well become uninhabitable in the years to come due to climate change. Florida also faces this problem. I believe that salt water intrusion was at least a contributing factor in the collapse of the condo building there two years ago.

basically New Orleans will need to get their city water from upstream areas or start building large desalinization plants ( requiring massive more energy ). Katrina was a warning... rising ocean levels coupled with depletion of the coastal buffer zone coupled with rising temperatures of the Gulf of Mexico... it is only a matter of time now.