the discussion of rioting was in relation to the water shortage in the situation of natural disaster. i think it would take a large calamity to cause the unrest, but as been shown prior in l.a. there is simmering on the surface a tension waiting to break.
as for solving part of the water shortage the people there have the ability, but not the inclination. they have voted down and protested numerous attempts over the last twenty years to build saline filtration plants and sewage "toilet to tap" plants. stupidity...
the reasoning against the desalinization plants was cost. thing is now it will cost far more than when discussed in the late 1980s and again in the 1990s. what really gets me is that water is already filtered at sewage treatment plants and reused. the toilet to tap is an extension of it that is even more filtered, but scaremongers riled up the populace that it would be drinking bacteria.
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Date: 2008-10-31 05:25 pm (UTC)as for solving part of the water shortage the people there have the ability, but not the inclination. they have voted down and protested numerous attempts over the last twenty years to build saline filtration plants and sewage "toilet to tap" plants. stupidity...
the reasoning against the desalinization plants was cost. thing is now it will cost far more than when discussed in the late 1980s and again in the 1990s. what really gets me is that water is already filtered at sewage treatment plants and reused. the toilet to tap is an extension of it that is even more filtered, but scaremongers riled up the populace that it would be drinking bacteria.