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To: one_less who wrote (3624)3/9/2010 2:30:20 AM
From: RMF  Respond to of 3816
 
I think Israel gets much of their water from distillation plants.

Actually, the country that may lead the research on this is China because they have MAJOR water problems.

2/3rds of the earth's surface is water but we can't use it because the technology hasn't kept up with the need.

We should see some extraordinary breakthroughs on this in the next 20 years.



To: one_less who wrote (3624)3/9/2010 11:08:09 AM
From: TimF  Respond to of 3816
 
Water at least has the absolute worse case scenario that you can desalinate salt water and effectively never run out. Its to expensive for us to use that as our prime water source at this time, but even in the most dystopic futures (barring disasters that themselves would probably wipe out the human race even if pure clean water was in infinite supply) we are likely to have at least that source.


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