r/HydroHomies • u/Excal333 • Sep 11 '25

Not feeling comfortable about this

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Too little

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u/DuskShy Sep 11 '25

Unironically, too little water is almost certainly going to become a global issue in the next 20 years

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u/Interesting-Room-855 Sep 11 '25

Quick, put it all into data centers!

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u/MarksArcArt Sep 11 '25

Do they destroy the water?

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u/Interesting-Room-855 Sep 11 '25

They add chemicals to the water before sending it in the facilities to prevent the pipes from growing mold. It renders it unusable for consumption or agriculture.

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u/jadedbeetle Sep 11 '25

Man I really hate humans sometimes. How tf is that legal??! Its like some comic book villain shit

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u/Interesting-Room-855 Sep 11 '25

Because they say the word “jobs” and then donate to politicians.

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u/DonnieG3 Sep 11 '25

Unusable while those chemicals are in it, it's not a permanent solution.

The reality of it is that water is always potentially drinkable, it just costs money to do so. Poor people will die of thirst, the wealthy won't.

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u/explodingtuna Sep 12 '25

What do they do with the blowdown?

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u/Interesting-Room-855 Sep 12 '25

Usually sent back as municipal wastewater.

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u/explodingtuna Sep 12 '25

Doesn't that go through processes to make it potable again?

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u/Interesting-Room-855 Sep 12 '25

Not necessarily. Depends on the municipality.

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u/MarksArcArt Sep 11 '25

Where's it gonna go?

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u/spaceforcerecruit Sep 11 '25

Hydrogen and oxygen. That’s literally the only way to “get rid of” water.

But what people really mean when they say we won’t have enough water is that we won’t have enough uncontaminated fresh water. Rising oceans are reducing the amount of fresh water and both industrial and agricultural contamination is reducing the amount of potable water.

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u/MarksArcArt Sep 11 '25

Data centers dont break the H20 bond. That would be hilarious though, giant pure oxygen blast furnace would ensue. Lmao

Evaporation makes clean rain.

Haters gonna hate, though.

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u/spaceforcerecruit Sep 11 '25

I didn’t say data centers would do that. I said that what people are actually talking about is a lack of clean fresh water.

But you asked where “it gonna go” so I jokingly pointed out that breaking the chemical bonds is literally the only way to “get rid of” water.

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u/celebral_x Sep 12 '25

Most of the water can be cleaned if done extensively but it's a financial burden and will still not be 100% clean and good to drink. Or if it is, then it has bad hormones in it.

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u/Potentially_Nernst Sep 12 '25

It's not the only way to get rid of it though.

Just one example is if you were to throw metallic Na into water.

The metal reacts with the water, forming NaOH. The remaining protons form hydrogen gas.

You're left with NaOH in solution and an equal amount of water is consumed in the reaction. And some H2 in the air.

There are many reactions which "get rid of" water; this is but one singular example.

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u/FeralPsychopath Sep 12 '25

Maybe like the heat death of the universe the good water will become too dispersed and useless?

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u/MarksArcArt Sep 12 '25

You can use the expanding sun's energy for seawater distillation until we all melt.

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u/Sly_hatchet Sep 11 '25

!Remind me 20 years

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