No, there is also a significant water problem. Current methods of (waste) water treatment only get us so far and water so clean. Distillation, specifically vapor compression distillation, is able to produce very clean water, but it's energy ravenous and not that scalable at the current state of technology.
Something to consider is the water cost of every good produced and delivered. When you eat a burger, there's water to grow the wheat for the bun, the lettuce and the onion. Water the cow drinks, as well as to grow its feed. The water to process/produce the power that runs the farm or made the gasoline that ships the produce to a processing plant, to process those parts and further deliver those to end destinations. And further the water that produced the to-go container or washed the dishes.
All of this takes water. Clean water. Yes, the earth is 70% water, and salt water can be purified to a potable or usable state. But how do we deal with the contaminants as they're removed?
One interesting case was a coastal r/o (reverse osmosis) facility, I believe somewhere in the UAE. Its throughput was great, but after a few years of operation, the ocean water surrounding its input/output pipes became so salt concentrated that the machinery's performance tanked and maintenance costs skyrocketed.
Water will eventually become one of the most serious problems we face. There are already lawsuits and wars over it. It's only going to get worse.
The saltwater desals are the current frontrunners still. But yeah there are going to be more and more problem with the salt concentrate displacement however they are still the best bet.
Unless if course energy problems are solved.
Even having wars over water will not solve the water crisis.
The only way is to figure out how to get tIer 3 energy so we can utilize more salt water.
We can also still be far far more efficient with the water we currently have before we start killing each other over it.
But that will only buy us time until we can figure out better energy sources.
It's not going to be lack of oil that creates the energy crisis is what I'm saying, it's actually going to be the lack of water, fundamentally that requires more energy.
Point being. There is a lot to be done before we start shooting bullets for water so if someone jumps the shark on that narrative everyone here should be wary.
Edit: Also maybe not though because as I think about it a little harder - maybe we deserve to destroy each other over water, a component for our life that makes up like 80% of our entire planet. Instead of figuring out how to access it we should blow each other up over. That would be the human thing to do actually. Pitiful our minds - who is that can say man is great?
There have been legal battles in the US, but tribal wars over water have already occurred in Africa. To be fair, tribal wars over damn near anything have already occurred in Africa. Water just happens to be a legitimate reason.
That's why Joe Biden is helping Ethiopia build a dam (China's getting paid to do it) that will cause droughts all along the Nile River through Sudan and Egypt? I'm sure this devil knows what she's saying and doing. Wouldn't surprise me if she is gloating that she and Biden are going to force a regional war with world war potential.
...California can keep their fucking hands off the great lakes though. Fuck them, get your own water.
If the neighboring states next to California just turned off the Water, and held them at ransom, we could have them voting Republican for the next 100 Years.
Ok kuntala, tell me then, WHY are you not focusing and showering money on the younguns who are making viable things that clean the oceans salt water into drinking water? No no, because that would be an ACTUAL step forward. They dont want solutions at all.
We dont have a water problem, we have a salt problem.
Leave it to the government to only know how to stimulate the economy through war.
No, there is also a significant water problem. Current methods of (waste) water treatment only get us so far and water so clean. Distillation, specifically vapor compression distillation, is able to produce very clean water, but it's energy ravenous and not that scalable at the current state of technology.
Something to consider is the water cost of every good produced and delivered. When you eat a burger, there's water to grow the wheat for the bun, the lettuce and the onion. Water the cow drinks, as well as to grow its feed. The water to process/produce the power that runs the farm or made the gasoline that ships the produce to a processing plant, to process those parts and further deliver those to end destinations. And further the water that produced the to-go container or washed the dishes.
All of this takes water. Clean water. Yes, the earth is 70% water, and salt water can be purified to a potable or usable state. But how do we deal with the contaminants as they're removed?
One interesting case was a coastal r/o (reverse osmosis) facility, I believe somewhere in the UAE. Its throughput was great, but after a few years of operation, the ocean water surrounding its input/output pipes became so salt concentrated that the machinery's performance tanked and maintenance costs skyrocketed.
Water will eventually become one of the most serious problems we face. There are already lawsuits and wars over it. It's only going to get worse.
The saltwater desals are the current frontrunners still. But yeah there are going to be more and more problem with the salt concentrate displacement however they are still the best bet.
Unless if course energy problems are solved.
Even having wars over water will not solve the water crisis.
The only way is to figure out how to get tIer 3 energy so we can utilize more salt water.
We can also still be far far more efficient with the water we currently have before we start killing each other over it.
But that will only buy us time until we can figure out better energy sources.
It's not going to be lack of oil that creates the energy crisis is what I'm saying, it's actually going to be the lack of water, fundamentally that requires more energy.
Point being. There is a lot to be done before we start shooting bullets for water so if someone jumps the shark on that narrative everyone here should be wary.
Edit: Also maybe not though because as I think about it a little harder - maybe we deserve to destroy each other over water, a component for our life that makes up like 80% of our entire planet. Instead of figuring out how to access it we should blow each other up over. That would be the human thing to do actually. Pitiful our minds - who is that can say man is great?
There have been legal battles in the US, but tribal wars over water have already occurred in Africa. To be fair, tribal wars over damn near anything have already occurred in Africa. Water just happens to be a legitimate reason.
oh nice heres the bill gates underground aquafer on all his newly purchased farmland all over america connection. they just cant keep secrets.
This 100%
Egypt vs Ethiopia
China vs all of its neighbors.
Trouble is, most of the rivers start in China and Tibet. They control it.
That's why Joe Biden is helping Ethiopia build a dam (China's getting paid to do it) that will cause droughts all along the Nile River through Sudan and Egypt? I'm sure this devil knows what she's saying and doing. Wouldn't surprise me if she is gloating that she and Biden are going to force a regional war with world war potential.
...California can keep their fucking hands off the great lakes though. Fuck them, get your own water.
If the neighboring states next to California just turned off the Water, and held them at ransom, we could have them voting Republican for the next 100 Years.
Hmmm...for once, I'm glad I'm living in the soggy Seattle area. Water everywhere!
the worst part about this is that the whore has been in the public sector for a long time and probably just now learned about this
So, she basically just said they've been lying to us every single time they gave a reason for war.
Ok kuntala, tell me then, WHY are you not focusing and showering money on the younguns who are making viable things that clean the oceans salt water into drinking water? No no, because that would be an ACTUAL step forward. They dont want solutions at all.
I've seen this movie, it was called Quantum of Solace.
Ignore your lying well!
But we were assured those middle east wars had nothing to do with oil several decades ago !
It takes a special type of globalist to be this dumb.