11 trillion gallons of water to relieve California drought - NASA

Tecumsehsbones

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My research is completed on SynWat (copyright).

Send me a cheque for $45 per liter (minimum 1,000 liters) and you can be the first to bask in it's purity and goodness.

Don't do it! It's a ripoff!

I will sell you 1000 one-litre packets of dehydrated water for only $5 a litre. Just tear open the packet, pour it into a container, and add one litre of water. Hey presto! One litre of pure, crystalline water.
 

petros

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How far along is the research into synthetic water?
They can't get past the synthetic bottle composition.

Don't do it! It's a ripoff!

I will sell you 1000 one-litre packets of dehydrated water for only $5 a litre. Just tear open the packet, pour it into a container, and add one litre of water.

I need a 20L bucket of compressed air. Got any?
 

MHz

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My research is completed on SynWat (copyright).

Send me a cheque for $45 per liter (minimum 1,000 liters) and you can be the first to bask in it's purity and goodness.
Compared to the WatSynInc hard water company (ice) how will you do with the after 5 crowd? At least jello comes in it's own container and you can carry it in your pocket for short distances.
 

darkbeaver

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My research is completed on SynWat (copyright).

Send me a cheque for $45 per liter (minimum 1,000 liters) and you can be the first to bask in it's purity and goodness.


Twenty-five minutes to rip off and develope my marketable idea! I want my money, OK half, I know where to get a lot of urine, you need me.


Too salty.

Really, I had no idea.
 

Cannuck

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I see I thought "per capita" meant by head.

Yes, but it's total volume divided by population...as opposed to individual consumption.

Could urine become a commodity in these dry places? Do vegetables urinate?

Many small municipalities hold their sewage in stabilization ponds and then irrigate with it. Currently (in Alberta anyway), it can't be used on food crops. We are looking at the feasibility of watering a park with it. The province was never open to these kinds of ideas but in the last few years they seem to changing their tune.
 

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California had a potable reuse plant in LA the 1930s. Produced better quality water from treated wastewater than the drinking water from the California aqueduct. They were recycling water decades ahead of NASA and it's astronauts. The plan was to divert a lot of water to agricultural use and groundwater recharge. Then the city secured Colorado river water, and the plant and plans to expand the program died.
California’s First Indirect Potable Reuse Treatment Plant Was in Los Angeles – “Back to the Futureâ€� : Los Angeles Basin Section

Now there is renewed interest in the program. Orange County is capturing 35% of their wastewater and diverting it to a potable reuse plant, which puts it back into their groundwater resource.
Drought May Lead More Cities To Turn Wastewater Into Drinking Water | KPBS

Not even new technology...yet it hasn't been implemented across a large part of California. Another bit of insanity, bottling groundwater in a state gripped by drought, and shipping it to consumers in places where municipal water is better planned, and not a scarce resource:
Nestle’s Water-Bottling Activities Amid California Drought Underscore A Lack Of Policy Options

The state is plainly insane. Maybe they are waiting for CG water from the studios in Hollywood.
 

darkbeaver

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Evaporate it and then use the dry fiber for fuel, like in buffalo chips only they didn't recapture the moisture./QUOTE]

It,dung, is a source of cooking gas also. There're just throwing good sh it away, with no apreciation of the effort used to manufacture it. It's no wonder the west is sinking, we can't handle sh it properly.