When it comes right down to it water, food, and shelter are the three most important things for survival.  What happens when one of those three is no longer available? 

If you haven't heard about Cape Town's water issues spend some time with the google machine.  It isn't too late for us to learn.

A list of 11 other cities which may have water issues in the not too distant future:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-42982959

 

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Miami!

FAKE FRICKIN' NEWS!

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This pretty much sums up FK:

 

 

FK should move to Cape Town and prove it LOL



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When America was "great"

Cape Town water problems reported on the favorite news source for those with lower cognitive ability:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/02/05/cape-town-braces-for-civil-unrest-as-citys-water-crisis-continues-to-worsen.html

  Now it is official!

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Yeah...it's official!

"Experts say this kind of drought only comes once in 300 years. "

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"Experts say this kind of drought only comes once in 300 years. "


Don't you find it odd that these 100/300 year occurrences seem to be happening on a regular basis?

No, of course you don't, you are an idiot.

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I was right.

Is there some reason the tech being used in Tampa can't be used in these other coastal cities?

Tampa Bay literally has a seawater desalination facility that is a drought-proof and an alternative water supply providing 25 million gallons per day of drinking water to the region.

Well Cape Town's issue seems to be political rather than water shortage.

As much as I understand that we will probably be fighting actual wars over water in some parts of the world eventually, there really is NO excuse for coastal cities to run out of water. If they don't have water, it is their own fault for not being willing to do what it takes to leverage the tech to provide themselves with water (for whatever reason).

Costal cities can install solar and wind to generate electricity to run desal plants and make water, get with it.

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Ah, religion, bigotry dressed up as morality.

I believe it's (desalination) energy intensive at the moment, but improving.

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That's the problem....IDIOT!

They aren't!

No more so than NORMAL!

FOOL!



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Yeah, but it is irrelevant when it comes to drinking water or not and dying. Well irrelevant for major cities.

You guys been snoozin?

Melbourne Water, yep right here in beautiful Brevard,

has been using reverse osmosis (desalination) for 20 years. 

"The Joe Mullins Reverse Osmosis Water Treatment Plant was put into operation in 1995 with a 6.5 MGD capacity and a 4.0 million gallon ground water storage tank. The R/O WTP's raw water supply is obtained from four Floridan Aquifer wells at approximately 650 to 850 feet underground. Each yields approximately 3.1 million gallons per day."

For the record, the deeper Floridan in our region has less total dissolved soilds (salinity) than the ocean by a factor of about 3 or 4.

That makes it a good bit easier (cheaper) to process than ocean water.  

 

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The aquifer wells at 650 and 850 feet are not salt water tom. Using R/O on raw seawater is energy intensive.

The government in SA is a mess, and I don't doubt that political and economic problems are contributory.

The take away is that this is a sign of things to come as the climate continues to change.

And we have problems much closer than Cape Town

http://www.npr.org/2018/01/09/...tween-florida-georgia




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“It is the heart of US policy to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism “ - Michael Parenti

Is the water rising in Miami, or is the land sinking?

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Exactly what I said Rusty.

Saltwater is just that, water with "salts" i.e., dissolved solids. 

It's a question of concentration, Total Dissolve Solids (TDS).    

than higher TDS water (seawater).  

R/O is separation of salts from water, so, desalination. 

Sorry if the translation was garbled.

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Exactly!

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