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Surely water deserves a higher place in the political agenda
original to FR | August 20, 2016 | Peter O'Donnell

Posted on 08/20/2016 3:38:39 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell

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1 posted on 08/20/2016 3:38:39 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell
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To: Peter ODonnell

It’s not a problem the elites want to solve, because solving it will ruin their plans of driving the population out of those areas into the high-density areas prescribed by UN Agenda 21 and its successors.


2 posted on 08/20/2016 3:40:52 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

The political agenda of the corrupt career politicians is only that which they think will advance their career, their power, and their personal monetary gain.


3 posted on 08/20/2016 3:42:24 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Let it all go to desert. And let those border jumpers have it.


4 posted on 08/20/2016 3:45:52 PM PDT by disndat
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To: Peter ODonnell
Anything the government does will only make it worse.
5 posted on 08/20/2016 3:50:30 PM PDT by JoeFromSidney (,)
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To: Peter ODonnell

President Trump, could you please pair a water pumpline with Keystone? Thanks, Byron


6 posted on 08/20/2016 3:51:23 PM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (Globalism = Terrorism)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Time for me to sell my winter home in Arizona


7 posted on 08/20/2016 3:53:10 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

The world’s largest and cheapest reverse-osmosis desalination plant is up and running in Israel.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3288377/posts

Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3455512/posts


8 posted on 08/20/2016 3:54:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wish I had an accurate take on the UN agenda for leveling all populations to an average income, people per unit area, numbers living together in a house, amount of food per person, income per adult, etc. What I have read are snippets.

How likely is the UN to leave the USA? I hope Trump does make a move to evict them and send them to Somalia.


9 posted on 08/20/2016 3:54:30 PM PDT by Bodega
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To: Peter ODonnell

Graphene ‘biofoam’ makes filthy water drinkable
http://www.futurity.org/graphene-biofoam-water-1212792-2/


10 posted on 08/20/2016 3:54:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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You’re Absolutely right that the western US water supply should be a big campaign issue, right up there with the FED-gov’t spending us into ruin, EMP preparation, Islam and immigration threats.

Unfortunately, the US is in its end Roman empire phase, ie: we are collapsing due in part to such parallels, ie:
all levels of gov’t are traitorously corrupt, military expansion has hollowed out our capabilities, and our disparate people are more interested in bread & circus versus preserving a healthy republic.

There will be no big useful civil projects addressing water need realities, as long as people are mass adle-brained into believing our biggest threats are racism and climate change.

Party like a Roman in 386 AD, awaiting Hannibal.


11 posted on 08/20/2016 3:58:26 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Claude “Bud” Lewis Carlsbad Desalination Plant is a 50 million gallon per day (56,000 acre-feet per year (AFY)) seawater desalination plant located adjacent to the Encina Power Station in Carlsbad, California. It has been providing 7% of San Diego County’s water supply since DEC 2015. It is the largest such plant in the western hemisphere.


12 posted on 08/20/2016 4:02:07 PM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The article cited is nebulous. When will the “process” be commercialized? Nothing is said or intimated.


13 posted on 08/20/2016 4:05:00 PM PDT by Fungi (Make America America again.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

I believe the politics of water are not only on the radar of national politics but also global politics. Even more so, I believe it is a major known tool of those entities. In Graduate school we spent a whole semester in a class studying the ways water control has been and is being used to control and destroy whole populations. That is why all of these ‘water ways’ laws are of ever more grave concern and we should all fight them with all we have.


14 posted on 08/20/2016 4:06:00 PM PDT by TianaHighrider (UNITED we STAND - DIVIDED We FALL.)
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To: Peter ODonnell

Whiskey’s for drinking. Water’s for fighting over.


15 posted on 08/20/2016 4:06:51 PM PDT by Hardastarboard (This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: Death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.)
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I don’t even know how much moving around of the water you would need to do. It’s not really true that the water need is inland. If the coastal cities had their own water supplies, it would greatly relieve the stress on the California reservoirs, and on Lake Mead, too.

There are a number of large scale desalination plans in the works, but you are correct that many more would be needed. But with cheap natural gas so abundant, and Israeli technology having made such huge improvements in the last decade, it’s probably inevitable.

I actually once did some back of the envelope stuff to look at your other suggestion, either towing icebergs, or using tanker technology to move fresh water around, and to me neither of those looked like they were going to make sense. Maybe as a one-off for a disaster zone the tanker idea would make sense, but not for a practical daily solution. Too small.


16 posted on 08/20/2016 4:10:38 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: disndat

“Letting it go to desert” may happen a lot faster than anyone may have imagined.

We have the technology to assure that California, and in fact much of the West, may have plenty of water, but it is going to have to turn the whole concept of “climate change” on its head.

Thorium-fueled Molten Salt reactors do not only produce electrical power, they produce generous amounts of heat energy. Harness the excess of heat energy to provide the necessary input to distill fresh water out of the saline waters of the Pacific, with huge condensation towers to catch the pure water, and route it into the places where there is greatest demand for potable and desalinated water. This process may even be applied to sewage discharge water, so it does not enter fresh water streams, with the solids found in sewage concentrated and dried to a manageable volume. In this dried waste matter, made up of both organic and inorganic waste, various minerals may be recovered, and the organic part returned to become part of an enriched loam for agricultural or other purposes. The desert then can bloom, and in doing so, shift the balance of desert to arable land, reversing one of the effects of this supposed “climate change”. The presence of great acreages of green growing vegetation has the advantage of reducing the potential for fire, as it is difficult to get green grass to take flame, and as the uptake and transpiration of water through plants restores moisture to the atmosphere, that in turn affects weather patterns on the advancing fronts, as air convection pushes the high-moisture atmosphere further and further.

But of course the Luddites that clutter up the legislative halls all over this tormented land would never allow that to happen. They would want to regulate, and review, and demand impact statements, and just generally choke off any real innovation that would really help.


17 posted on 08/20/2016 4:11:45 PM PDT by alloysteel (Of course you will live in interesting times, Nobody has a choice, now.)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
There will be no big useful civil projects addressing water need realities, as long as people are mass adle-brained into believing our biggest threats are racism and climate change.

You know, it's stuff like this post, right here, that makes me realize Free Republic is evil.

You never ONCE mention Transgenderism and who makes the birthday cake and which bathroom they can go in.

18 posted on 08/20/2016 4:16:11 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Every word the "News Media" prints these days are a lie, including "and" and "the".)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yup.

UN Agenda plan our State dept, elites, Hollywood, banksters, environmental-nuts, progressives, educational system, and mainstream media are going to SHOVE down our throats.

Purloined elites excluded from the 300 Sq ft stacked housing planned for us, have made their decision and say to the US:
Time to die...

FROM THE UN - NGO’s plans and own words:

http://www.america2050.org/megaregions.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/29/six-maps-that-will-make-you-rethink-the-world/

https://undg.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Mainstreaming-the-2030-Agenda-UNDG-Interim-Reference-Guide-to-UNCTs-7-October-2015.pdf

RE: “It’s not a problem the elites want to solve, because solving it will ruin their plans of driving the population out of those areas into the high-density areas prescribed by UN Agenda 21 and its successors.”


19 posted on 08/20/2016 4:17:10 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: alloysteel

That is a great post.

Didn’t Isreal bring, or try to bring a new desalination plant online?


20 posted on 08/20/2016 4:17:12 PM PDT by disndat
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