Comment on Flood water use
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 months agoI know its not really comparable, but seawater has almost as many pollutants in it and government are actively researching desalination tech
Comment on Flood water use
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 months agoI know its not really comparable, but seawater has almost as many pollutants in it and government are actively researching desalination tech
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 5 months ago
As I understand, desal tech is available, it’s just prohibitively expensive, both in terms of acquisition and operations.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Be willi g to be the areas affected by severe droughts would happily try to cover it
SolOrion@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
To be clear it’s ‘prohibitively expensive’ on a governmental scale.
There’s so few places that have that combo of “not enough water” and “large amounts of wealth” that desalinization just isn’t used a lot.