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Artificially produced water delivers Israel from drought
seattletimes ^ | May 29, 2015 at 6:35 pm | Isabel Kershner

Posted on 05/30/2015 7:38:27 AM PDT by ckilmer

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1 posted on 05/30/2015 7:38:27 AM PDT by ckilmer
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2 posted on 05/30/2015 7:43:09 AM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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I don’t mind being poked fun at because of this but I actually wondered if it would affect ocean level lol. Until I actually looked up how much water there is on the earths.oceans. no worries lolI don’t know why California doesn’t have a dozen desalinization plants up and running already


3 posted on 05/30/2015 7:44:22 AM PDT by dp0622
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Israel is smarter than California.


4 posted on 05/30/2015 7:46:35 AM PDT by abclily
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I don’t know why California doesn’t have a dozen desalinization plants up and running already

Why?

Because the RATs are never interested in solving any problem, just owning the issue.

Prime example: RATs and "black" issues.

5 posted on 05/30/2015 7:48:01 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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On the other hand, unlike California, they’ve also got easy access to a large body of salt water. Oh, wait.... :=)


6 posted on 05/30/2015 8:02:33 AM PDT by Bob (No, being a US Senator and the Secretary of State are not accomplishments; they're jobs.)
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California has a large body of Marxists who claim desalination is not earth friendly. So they live in a desert without water.

Pray America is waking


7 posted on 05/30/2015 8:08:26 AM PDT by bray (Cruz to the WH)
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There was a book years ago entitled, “Is Martha Stewart Living.” One of the things the fictitious Stewart does is to travel to Everest to collect the purest hydrogen and oxygen molecules to make her own water.


8 posted on 05/30/2015 8:15:11 AM PDT by rey
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Reminds me of the expensive ice at Whole Foods, lol. Used to buy it on occasion when at a friend’s house, that was the closest place to get it. We jokingly called it reconstituted organic glacier melt. Very pretty ice. Should have been, for what they charged.


9 posted on 05/30/2015 8:18:58 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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I’m not sure of your point.

The Gulf Arabs run the biggest desalination plants in the world. They have been living on desalinized water for over half a century. Israel and Singapore have separately claimed to do the cheapest desalination in the world—at around $500-$700@ acre foot. They can put them up in 2-3 years.

In California a similar desalination plant will cost about $2000@acre foot, Its taken over 15 years to make the desalination plant and its still not finished.

Meanwhile California is going through a huge drought.


10 posted on 05/30/2015 8:22:50 AM PDT by ckilmer (q)
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I actually know a few liberals that are against any desalination because they are afraid that just California will use up all the ocean water...

Just California...


11 posted on 05/30/2015 8:45:24 AM PDT by Domandred (Tea Party or Third Party. Done with the capitulating eGOP.)
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Bad headline. Just how is desalinated water 'artificially produced water'? It's just saltwater from which the salt has been removed.

Nobody produced any water.

12 posted on 05/30/2015 8:51:27 AM PDT by Will88
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At Israel’s cost that is only 2/10 a cent per gallon!!!
Seems like a no brainer to me.


13 posted on 05/30/2015 8:54:58 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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Reminds me of the expensive ice at Whole Foods,

I only buy free range, organic ice, in cubes. Over these, I pour organic, whole grain bourbon, usually Buffalo Trace. I have standards.

14 posted on 05/30/2015 8:55:53 AM PDT by centurion316
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...2/10 a cent per gallon...

$540 for the 27,000 gallons it would take to replace 1" rainfall on one acre of ground.

15 posted on 05/30/2015 9:02:24 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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I left out a decimal. $5.40 per 27k gallons.


16 posted on 05/30/2015 9:08:22 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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Water! We don't need no stinking water in Kalifornia. We need a high speed train in the desert. Conrade Brown sees the marco view of Kalifornia like no others can. Once the high speed desert train is operational and we have overcome the difficulties of operating a desert train, we can then built a desert train along the coast which has officially become a desert.
Brown knows that only a high speed desert train can save the inland areas of Kalifornia but pave the way to save the desert communities of the coast. Sieg heil, Conrade Brown
17 posted on 05/30/2015 9:42:34 AM PDT by Kozy
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/bingo


18 posted on 05/30/2015 9:56:47 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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We’re Dune-ed.


19 posted on 05/30/2015 10:27:19 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "we still do not know exactly how people are infected with Ebola")
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Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Probably a fair bet that the author didn’t major in any of the STEM fields...


20 posted on 05/30/2015 10:30:26 AM PDT by Moltke (The tagline that was here previously has suddenly disappeared)
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