When wars break out over water, here is where shit will go down

[Blood on Blood]

BOOM!

 

[FESTER665]

Sounds like my property is about to SKYROCKET in value!

Except Im guessing if it got to that point it would either be people not being civil so good luck getting top dollar, or government is going to take over anyway and just take your shit...


In either case itll be long after Im dead so "meh"....

 

[Kensington]

Judging by the map, essentially the entire east coat and west coast are coming this way, so imagine this area with LA and NY's populations added to it.

But it's not as if we can't desalinate seawater...it's just expensive and energy inefficient right now.

Build modern nuclear plants, that don't have the meltdown capability of the 50's tech reactors that most of the US has right now, and you have your energy problem for desalinization solved. People see nuclear as too dirty though.

 

[Yaj Yak]

Well, I mean ya...but we're not actively treating it as our toilet...even tho we kind of are.

Look man, India shits in the street and it goes into their rivers. Just let me rip on India.

you took my "we're pooping in the river" joke too seriously.

 

[Mook]

INDIA POOPS IN THE STREET, KEVIN

 

[Chet Donnelly]

Except Im guessing if it got to that point it would either be people not being civil so good luck getting top dollar, or government is going to take over anyway and just take your shit...


In either case itll be long after Im dead so "meh"....

No fear of any of that with TCG militia in full force! :ar::ar::ar:

 

[Rent Free]

Ive thought at least since HighSchool EVERYTHING should be Hydrogen powered.

Cars, Buildings, everything.

Ibe argued it a few times here in the past also.

Hydrogen tech just isnt there yet...

However have patience grasshoppa its coming.

 

[Spivitz]

Placing an order now, bout time I put my FOID to use

 

[Kensington]

Ive thought at least since HighSchool EVERYTHING should be Hydrogen powered.

Cars, Buildings, everything.

Ibe argued it a few times here in the past also.

Hydrogen tech just isnt there yet...

However have patience grasshoppa its coming.

I've got my money on molten salt nuclear reactors. No new technology necessary, runs cleaner than nuclear does today (which is still super clean.) They are incredibly efficient, incredibly safe, and they will actually run off existing nuclear waste, solving a major shortfall of current nuclear energy and ridding us of existing nuclear waste stockpiles.

 

[LikeABauce302]

I'm leaving work early to start filling up empty milk jugs with water.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

So drought-central CA is fine but the midwest is going to be in worse shape than most of africa?

Not buying it

 

[Mook]

We have water...Africa and CA do not....so......people are going to want it.

 

[FirstWorldProblems]

We have water...Africa and CA do not....so......people are going to want it.

So you foresee californians leaving their homes and coming to the midwest to fight for water? Pretty sure that's not how things will play out

And you know the majority of africa isn't leaving the continent in search for water. Even right now (not in post-apocalyptic drought mode) most don't have the means to do so

 

[Mook]

If they dont have water, I somehow doubt people are just gonna chill in their house drinking piss

The article is basically saying here are going to be hotbeds for political and civil unrest. I took some liberties with my title

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

 

[radioguy6]

California is building more desalination plants, I think I read somewhere 8 were approved?

 

[Chet Donnelly]

So you foresee californians leaving their homes and coming to the midwest to fight for water? Pretty sure that's not how things will play out

Can't wait to see those elitist commie bastards come try to fight....

 

[Ear Rak]

We good down in Texas. Plenty of water....and definitely no shortage of ammo.

 

[GLADIATOR]

They sell water at the stores. Please buy Eternal Water...kthxbye

 

[Mr_Roboto]

AMMO UP? DONT HAVE TO TELL TCG TWICE

Gotta have a hobby.

 

[boostedguy05]

But it's not as if we can't desalinate seawater...it's just expensive and energy inefficient right now.

Build modern nuclear plants, that don't have the meltdown capability of the 50's tech reactors that most of the US has right now, and you have your energy problem for desalinization solved. People see nuclear as too dirty though.

because of all that smoke coming form the towers

 

[Mr_Roboto]

Oddly, I think "salt polution" could be the polution that people don't actually see. I wouldn't be surprised if the salinity of the oceans and other places is going up and fucking with stuff.

 

[Kensington]

Oddly, I think "salt polution" could be the polution that people don't actually see. I wouldn't be surprised if the salinity of the oceans and other places is going up and fucking with stuff.

That's sort of been on the back of my mind, if we start seeing more wide spread desalinization. How do we measure ocean salinity? Do we put the the salt from the desalinization process back into the ocean? I mean, the water cycle, in theory, should be putting fresh water eventually back into the oceans. And I don't think we need THAT much sea salt on our food

 

[Mr_Roboto]

That's sort of been on the back of my mind, if we start seeing more wide spread desalinization. How do we measure ocean salinity? Do we put the the salt from the desalinization process back into the ocean? I mean, the water cycle, in theory, should be putting fresh water eventually back into the oceans. And I don't think we need THAT much sea salt on our food

Don't forget that we are MINING salt and freeing it into the world just like we do with carbon.

 

[Kensington]

Don't forget that we are MINING salt and freeing it into the world just like we do with carbon.

I'm blissfully unaware if there are types/grades/styles of salt mined vs. obtained vs desalinization...Is it possible the mining of salt would decline if salt were more wildly available through desalinization?