Israel solves water woes with desalination

omaha.com ^ | Friday, May 30, 2014 12:33 am | Updated: 11:46 pm, Fri May 30, 2014.

[Zathras]

If I remember correctly, my bill for water in Oregon was more expensive than this.

[editor-surveyor]

The politics of water in California are definitely not Left - Right.

It is Real Estate development vs. the people, pure and simple. The left would love to deny water to agriculture, because that fits in with their Death Culture “spirituality,” but they never seem to see the unbridled development for what it is. (and I’m a surveyor that makes money off of development)

[editor-surveyor]

And all of Oregon’s water needs are fully satisfied by just the nightly dew that condenses on the vegetation!
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[DoughtyOne]

Ran across this and thought it was an interesting idea.

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[zeugma]

Moreover, Bromberg said desalination is not an end-all solution. The plants require immense amounts of energy, consuming roughly 10 percent of Israel's total electricity production, he said.

Yup. If you're near the ocean, all you need is energy and you can have clean water.

The exact impact of desalination plants on the wider Mediterranean also isn't clear, he added. A number of countries, including Cyprus, Lebanon and Egypt, are either using or considering the use of desalination plants.

Waiting for the eco-nazis to step up on this one. I'm sure they'll be yelling about it soon enough.

Put a bunch of jews in the desert, and eventually you'll have a civilized oasis.

Put a bunch of muslims in the desert, and you eventually have dead muslims... and desert.

[Leaning Right]

Not only is Israel not “in the heart of the Middle East,” it isn’t even near the Middle East.

I was curious, so I checked. Wikipedia has a totally different geographical definition of "Middle East" than you do. And Webster's dictionary agrees with the Wikipedia definition.

So I guess learned people can differ here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_middle_east

[MaxMax]

No, they would find an endangered oceanic microbe on the other side of the planet to protect.

[morphing libertarian]

http://web.carlsbadca.gov/services/departments/water/pages/seawaterdist.aspx

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[ckilmer]

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Yeah that’s the good stuff. Or anyhow graphene is the latest membranes touted as being the great solution. A couple years ago it was carbon nano tubes.

Meanwhile somehow the Israelis are able to do desalination plants for $600@acre foot. Whereas the Poseidon Plant in Carlsbad California may clock in at $2000 @ acre foot.

[ckilmer]

the shame is that the genius people in silicon valley don’t think about cheap desalination as the future of california.

[Balding_Eagle]

Read in it’s entirety, the article is pointing out what a horrible thing Israel’s desalination program is.

Dumping brine, unfair to the Philistines, using too much electricity, it’s a long list of evils that Gods Chosen People have embarked upon.

[DoughtyOne]

You may have a very good reason for saying that. I would look more to the mayors and city councils of Southern California cities, that are far too short-sighted and limited in their ability to think outside the box.

Sacramento doesn’t help any either. They’re too focused on saving citizens from gun ownership.

[piytar]

Hmm, maybe use that water to make the deserts bloom?

Ezekiel 36:35

35 And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like vthe garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.

[DoughtyOne]

You’ve got a good point there. I still wonder if it isn’t best to simply start desalinizing on location. If Israel has brought the cost down this far, it seems like time to do this on a large scale around the world.

[DoughtyOne]

In the beginning Californians were promised a total cost of less than 10% what the total bill will turn out to be. Folks bought in on that.

Now the stupid thing has a life of it’s own. The state government (Extremely Leftist) is behind it, at the urging of unions who want the government contracts.

The question is, how do you stop nonsense like this when the money spigot is turned on?

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks Grandpa Dave.

I appreciate your agreement, and agree with your conclusion as well.

[editor-surveyor]

Israel is by definition the Near East. That is all of the shemitic nations actually.

Middle East is between the Far East (China, etc.) and the Near East.

Wikipedia is a leftist joke.

All of my dictionaries say that the Persian and Hindi nations are the Middle East.

[WildWeasel]

Al Gore’s rising sea level problem solved.

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