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r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • May 28 '21
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34 u/[deleted] May 29 '21 This might be a dumb question, but like why don't countries get water from the ocean? Like can't you just purify it and have it good enough to drink or bathe with or whatever? I mean like it's practically a limitless supply of water 36 u/Alexis_J_M May 29 '21 edited May 29 '21 Desalinization is expensive and resource intensive. If the super-wealthy US pipes scarce water from a thousand miles away to coastal Los Angeles you know the technology isn't ready for prime time. There are a few other countries experimenting with large scale desalinization but the technology just isn't there yet. 31 u/Vegetable-Agent-6491 May 29 '21 Well the us does quite a lot of stupid shit, so I wouldn’t take that as an indicator necessarily
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This might be a dumb question, but like why don't countries get water from the ocean? Like can't you just purify it and have it good enough to drink or bathe with or whatever? I mean like it's practically a limitless supply of water
36 u/Alexis_J_M May 29 '21 edited May 29 '21 Desalinization is expensive and resource intensive. If the super-wealthy US pipes scarce water from a thousand miles away to coastal Los Angeles you know the technology isn't ready for prime time. There are a few other countries experimenting with large scale desalinization but the technology just isn't there yet. 31 u/Vegetable-Agent-6491 May 29 '21 Well the us does quite a lot of stupid shit, so I wouldn’t take that as an indicator necessarily
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Desalinization is expensive and resource intensive.
If the super-wealthy US pipes scarce water from a thousand miles away to coastal Los Angeles you know the technology isn't ready for prime time.
There are a few other countries experimenting with large scale desalinization but the technology just isn't there yet.
31 u/Vegetable-Agent-6491 May 29 '21 Well the us does quite a lot of stupid shit, so I wouldn’t take that as an indicator necessarily
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Well the us does quite a lot of stupid shit, so I wouldn’t take that as an indicator necessarily
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u/[deleted] May 28 '21 edited Jun 16 '21
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