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Corporations are targeting water as the next privatized commodity. They are building desalination plants which traditionally rely on fossile fuels. Are there any projects underway to use tidal power to run desalination plants? Wouldn't that make sense?
What I think would make sense would be to kill two birds with one stone. For example the Mississippi River seems prone to flooding, why not divert some of the excess water and pipe it out West instead?
All the water ends up going to the ocean in the end but could be used to irrigate and refill reservoirs before it does.
What I think would make sense would be to kill two birds with one stone. For example the Mississippi River seems prone to flooding, why not divert some of the excess water and pipe it out West instead?
All the water ends up going to the ocean in the end but could be used to irrigate and refill reservoirs before it does.
I think the cost of building the pipes would be exhorbitant, plus the flooding 'problem' appears to have a political agenda attached.
"the federal government is sending out letters to all of the flooded out farmers in the Missouri River flood plain and bottoms notifying them that the Army Corps of Engineers will offer to BUY THEIR LAND.
Intentionally flood massive acreage of highly productive farmground. Destroy people’s communities and homes. Catch them while they are desperate and afraid and then swoop in and buy the ground cheap. Those evil sons of *******."
It's a forward-looking euphemism - corporate privatization of water is not a 'war' per se, until it becomes clear that 'our water is under their soil', at which time it will be war, and as is the case with oil, that day is coming.
What I think would make sense would be to kill two birds with one stone. For example the Mississippi River seems prone to flooding, why not divert some of the excess water and pipe it out West instead?
All the water ends up going to the ocean in the end but could be used to irrigate and refill reservoirs before it does.
I highly recommend you read the book, Cadillac Desert. It is known as being one of the best researched, and well crafted non-fiction books that deal with water. It provides so much history over water in the West, the politics behind it, the billions of dollars spent (or wasted in many cases) on the damning craze between the 30's - 60's.
Thanks - I really think that the coming water shortage needs to be addressed with renewable energy sources, and hopefully the tidal powered generators can be perfected to that end.
What water shortage? We have all the fresh water we could ever want in Alaska. Nice clean glacial water. In fact, it is so clean that the EPA once threatened Anchorage with a $3 million fine if they did not remove the particulates from the city's drinking water. The only problem was that there are no particulates in Anchorage's drinking water. The city had to dump several tons of fish waste into the water just so it could be removed and be in compliance with the morons at the EPA.
You lower-48ers can stick with your pricey bottled tap-water, we will stick to our free water from glacier fed lakes, rivers, and streams.
It's a forward-looking euphemism - corporate privatization of water is not a 'war' per se, until it becomes clear that 'our water is under their soil', at which time it will be war, and as is the case with oil, that day is coming.
This issue may come to fruition when those of us who have private wells start getting meters for water usage. It may become similar to not having mineral rights under your own private land.
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