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To: BenLurkin; SunkenCiv

“...the infrastructure required sophisticated engineering solutions to transport up to 80 million cubic meters of desalinated water annually.”

A mere 2300 years after the Romans figured it out.


2 posted on 07/18/2025 7:58:44 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Larry Lucido

California could do this as well. But, they won’t.


3 posted on 07/18/2025 8:06:46 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: Larry Lucido

Something I’ve always wondered was how the Romans got water to flow uphill in their aqueducts. Siphon effect, maybe?


4 posted on 07/18/2025 8:11:52 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Larry Lucido; BenLurkin; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks LL for bringing up that point. Thanks BL for the topic!.

5 posted on 07/18/2025 8:14:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The moron troll Ted Holden believes that humans originated on Ganymede.)
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To: Larry Lucido

The Romans never desalinated a single milliliter.


12 posted on 07/18/2025 8:48:38 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Nullius in verba)
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