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Cape Town out of water
#374120 - 02/25/18 05:02 PM
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So then we can build machines that destroy cities, fix burned flesh with stem cells in an hour and make meat in a lab but we can't build a fucking machine that cleans ocean water into drinking water? It's that fucking hard?
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Re: Cape Town out of water
[Re: Smitdogg]
#374121 - 02/25/18 05:53 PM
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Re: Cape Town out of water
[Re: Hadou Ken]
#374122 - 02/25/18 06:03 PM
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I guess, if that can get it drinkable by humans and not just usable for plants. If so then I'm wondering why Cape Town doesn't have this set up.
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Re: Cape Town out of water
[Re: Smitdogg]
#374123 - 02/25/18 07:23 PM
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It depends who is in charge. Politicians are not critical thinkers or very good problem solvers. They need funding, planning, some sort of board or committee..... blah blah blah, then they can actually get some work done!!
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Re: Cape Town out of water
[Re: Hadou Ken]
#374124 - 02/25/18 07:26 PM
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They've known for months that they were going to run out of water and I haven't heard 1 single solution idea, just a bunch of "water gangster" talk about gangs hoarding water so they can charge 50 bucks a glass when the crisis hits. They bring in billions just on tourism I think so this is pathetic.
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Re: Cape Town out of water
[Re: Smitdogg]
#374129 - 02/25/18 11:56 PM
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Re: Cape Town out of water
[Re: Robbbert]
#374141 - 02/26/18 08:37 AM
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> > I guess, if that can get it drinkable by humans and not just usable for plants. If so > > then I'm wondering why Cape Town doesn't have this set up. > > We have a desalination plant here fit for humans, but by the time it was built the > drought at the time had broken and so it hasn't been needed since.
Yeah, we have one in Sydney that's used but isn't really necessary at the moment because there hasn't been such a bad drought since they built it, and one in Melbourne that the state government refused to buy any water from because the previous government built it.
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