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Environment & Energy

NickB79

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10. The only solution to a megadrought: MOVE!

Reply to Curtis (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 3, 2014, 03:25 PM

Sep 2014

We have no technological fixes that are both economically feasible and scalable that could combat such an event.

Even if we built desal. plants to provide drinking water for the populace, the massive amounts of water required by industry and agriculture would be impossible to meet (unless you build HUNDREDS of said desal. plants).

And without industry or agriculture, the Western state's economies go into free fall, and people end up moving anyway on their own.

There will always be enough water to support some people, but 70 million and growing? No fucking way.

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'Worse Than Anything Seen in 2,000 Years' as Megadrought Threatens Western States [View all] adirondacker Sep 2014 OP

Very worrisome for us out here Curtis Sep 2014 #1

Desalinization is both expensive and energy demanding. adirondacker Sep 2014 #2

Bet it's a lot cheaper and more efficient now, 20 years later Demeter Sep 2014 #11

Even Saudi Arabia doesn't rely heavily on desal. to exist NickB79 Sep 2014 #13

they want to build more dams because that's what we've always done phantom power Sep 2014 #5

Brown's 24 bilion dollar boondoggle of a project has been very much truedelphi Sep 2014 #9

The only solution to a megadrought: MOVE! NickB79 Sep 2014 #10

How will this affect the Kardashians? progressoid Sep 2014 #3

The closer you look, the worse it appears. GliderGuider Sep 2014 #4

2000 years? A blip on the time scale. Indydem Sep 2014 #6

A "megadrought" is defined by a time period Sopkoviak Sep 2014 #7

"What a worthless piece of crap scaremongering study. It's virtually meaningless. " Nihil Sep 2014 #12

50% chance of a thunderstorm. Time to grab your umbrella and walk around in an open field. adirondacker Sep 2014 #14

Rain clouds in the autumn dry up, as truedelphi Sep 2014 #8

Nestle's CEO has made it clear that access to clean water is not a human right. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #15

I know - it is very clear that the only choice that you and I have to make is truedelphi Sep 2014 #16

Yes, but we wouldn't be Enthusiast Sep 2014 #17