Posted on 12/28/2022 3:21:57 PM PST by grundle
A recent Washington Post article on an Arizona proposal states:
“But earlier this week the board was suddenly facing a vote on whether to support a $5 billion project led by an Israeli company to build a plant to desalinate ocean water in Mexico and pump it 200 miles across the border.”
I myself am a huge supporter of desalination, and I think it’s a great idea that Arizona is considering hiring the world’s best experts to help them. I can see how the specific route might be a bad idea. I hope that something gets built, and that people can work together to find a route that is acceptable to all parties. This can be a win-win for everyone if they do it right.
This article from 2014 says that Israel was desalinizing water for less than 40 cents per cubic meter.
That’s 264 gallons.
For less 40 cents.
Of course there’s also the cost of moving it 200 miles. And the U.S. always adds extra red tape and bureaucracy compared to the rest of the world. But even with all of that, my guess is that it would still cost less than 1% of what people in the U.S. currently pay for bottled water. For a few extra dimes per person per day more than the current price of tap water, we could end water shortages forever.
I also support building a nuclear power plant to power all of this. Perhaps Arizona could hire France to offer them advice.
Here’s the complete Washington Post article:
They should have them build a wall instead.
This anything like, “bridge to sell in Arizona”?
Now just invent a desalination plant that doesn’t use energy, and ONLY THEN might the Globalists (Ukraine supporters) allow you to build it.
That was the EXACT REASON that the California Coastal Commission rejected an application to build a plant that would have brought some relief to Southern California. They had no other stated (cost, disruption of the land, etc.) - just that it takes energy to run it and at least some of our energy is from fossil fuels.
Southern California needs many desalination plants along the coast.
Massive water spill destroys water of desert Mugwump,
Society for Preservation of Mugwumps, chairman says.
Un-natural water usage by humans threaten Mugwumps everywhere.
Authorities suspect enviro-protestors of sabotage as
plastic water bottles were found at site.
The Central Arizona Project was designed from the gitgo to accommodate a addition of a canal through California to transport desalinated Pacific Ocean water from the California coast
Mexican drug cartel: Pay us $1 million a month or we blow up the pipeline.
I’ve been asking for years why states like California complain about droughts and water shortages -but have a massive ocean right there - DESALINATION... duh!
But Arizona doesn’t have an ocean shoreline... they would have to make a deal with Mexico for access...
This tactic could save millions of lives in Africa/Middle East, as well as endangered wild animals who are losing watercolors.
As an added gift to the left environmentalists, desalination would lower Obama’s “rising oceans”.
This is the environmental/humanitarian Trifecta of the 21st century, in my humble opinion.
Damned spell check.
It is “losing waterholes”, not “water colors”.
I always thought a canal from California to Texas along the Mexican border would be fantastic. I wasn’t thinking for the desalinized water though, I was thinking for the sharks, salt water crocs and jelly fish we could fill it with. They need to be protected. We could make the canal a national park for them.
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