Posted on 02/12/2018 9:31:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
During one of our famous hurricanes, YEARS ago, hubby reassured that we wouldn’t have to worry about flushing our toilets....since we have a big cement pond, with PLENTY of water in it.
Guess what? Schlepping that water - that can become filled with storm debris, quick - into the house would get OLD, fast!
Luckily, we had filled up ALL of the bathtubs, as we always do before a hurricane, and had plenty of ‘flushing’ water.
This was the time our power was out for weeks (pre-generator days).
Georgia was engaged in a legal battle to try and get their border with Tennessee moved 600 feet to the north so that they could tap a reservoir.
No idea where that case stands.
Don’t forget pizza.
Yep, gotta be on a coast. There’s one in Southern California online now since 2015. It’s in Carlsbad which is about 30 miles north of San Diego. Largest seawater one in the USA. Cost $1 Billion and supplies about 7% of San Diego County water, 50 million gallons per day with reverse osmosis.
I am in Capetown at this very moment.
In spite of this scare article, people are not running around waiting for the world to end. They are going about normal business, very carefully conserving water - like a 90 second shower, not flushing with No. 1.
And like in America with single party Democrat run big cities, political incompetence, like a 10 year in the planning desalinization plant that hasn’t,t even been started, the incompetent ANC runs everything and screws it up.
Maybe they need Trump here to fix the problem in six months like he did with the Central Park ice rink.
Incompetence is the public face but projects like that dragging on and on are due to fraud, graft and misappropriation of funds. Don’t accept that they’re merely stupid, that’s just the excuse.
The argument for desalinization projects
In the summer I keep a big bucket under the a/c drain outside. Collect 6-10 gallons a day, depending on humidity levels
I can believe it.
Statits LOVE shortages. It puts them in the driver’s seat.
They have one in the Tampa Bay Area. The Bay water has less salt in it because there are a lot of rivers that empty into it.
That case ain’t happening. Pretty obvious that the river had simply moved to the TN side of a well-established border, an no amount of legal wrangling is going to move it back. No surprise that, under the circumstances, GA was willing to throw a bunch of legal schemers at it to see if there was any chance at all of making it happen.
Things did get rather dicy with SC. GA shares a reservoir on that border, and had Lake Lanier gone down much farther we’d have fully tapped that too and let the lawyers duke the results out for decades.
As they leave the borders open, we will run out of natural resources to supply the hoards.
The Left is only interested in urban large-scale solutions (_never_ in truly independent home-scale systems), and the cities they’re only interested in are so large desalination plants would require nuclear power to operate - and since that’s absolutely intolerable per their sociopolitical axioms, desalination simply disappears as an option for them to consider.
I set a bucket under the A/C drain last summer. Easy 5 gallons a day, and that was during the drier times. That’s distilled water, the only concern really being the system it’s coming from isn’t “food grade”. Quick filter + UV and it would do pretty well in a pinch (assuming A/C still running; that points to another discussion about solar-powered HVAC...).
Since most water use need not be “potable”, roof runoff into a large cistern/container should be sufficient.
I’ve also taken to (at my wife’s concerted annoyance) putting large cheap baking pans outside during heavy rains and consuming the lightly filtered results. (Survivalism is something you _live_, not just prepare for.) Am considering how to set up larger food-grade plastic tarps to collect ever more when opportunity arises.
'If you are cut off somewhere in the desert, you could survive because of this device'
BTW, I live here:
Speaking of bays...read about this a while back and was shocked, but not really:
Drought Hypocrisy: San Francisco Using Drinking Water To Heat City Hall, Other Buildings“After the water is heated up, the condensated water is then discharged into the sewer system,” said Tyrone Jue of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. “This is drinking water that is being used for the steam loop.
...a quarter million gallons a day goes wasted. Good drinking water ends up in the sewer. It’s a system that is more than 80 years old.”
~65 million gallons of water per year, just for 171 buildings in S.F.
One has to wonder how many other, similar, 80+ y.o. city systems are out there doing the same thing.
I noticed that the article said that Miami’s problem was due sea level rise.
I have to wonder why Miami’s sea level rise is greater than any other place.
I was always under the impression that water seeks its own level, that being Sea Level.
Perhaps Miami should look at subsidence of the land due to OVER PUMPING OF AQUIFERS in the area.
They should have just used angled and horizontal drilling techniques and kept their mouths shut.
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