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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They should just make water out of the ocean, would solve all these issues[/quote]

Desalination through reverse osmosis is very real, and the obvious and ultimate solution. They just have to wait out the environmentalists and the NIMBYs who will throw every wrench they can into the process until the vast majority of people who aren't paying attention are forced to confront the issue. [/quote]

The ultimate solution is to not use so much water unnecessarily. Yes, desalination can help. But, the oceans have an ecosystem and balance too. You can just start effing with that and not expect to negatively impact the oceans.[/quote]

You can take a LOT of water out of the Pacific Ocean before you start affecting its ecosystems. I mean...look at it on your kid's globe. It's pretty big, don't you think? [/quote]

It will rain and the drought will go away.  This is the most likely outcome.  [/quote]

Western droughts are cyclical. It will probably take decades for the cycle to swing back to a wetter overall cycle, but it will happen.

The problem is you’ve got a generation of people who bleat about stuff happening in their own short timeline of when they started noticing things and extrapolate that forwards, without ever bothering to examine the past. You know, cause that’s for boomers.

A better question is why are so many people living in a desert and then complaining about not having enough water? Uh, it’s because it’s a desert.

Next time you’re in L.A., look at the residential areas and make note of the types of vegetation you see there. Then look at the arroyos and hillsides, and notice the vegetation there. Two totally different ecospheres. One is natural, the other is totally artificial, and totally dependent on supplemental water. If you stopped watering all the lawns and shrubs and trees, they’d all die - because they didn’t exist there in the first place. L.A. should be covered with desert scrub, not grass and trees. [/quote]

The drought cycle may be 50-100 years.  In the meantime, Lake Mead will be a dead lake.  That means that a significant population will have to relocate.  There will be no water and no electricity.

The Great Salt Lake drying up will be catastrophic for a different reason.  But still bad.

There is plenty of archaeological evidence of civilizations and cultures ending because of lack of water.  Including in the western US.  Just because we're modern Americans doesn't mean we're immune from that.  [/quote]

The difference between us and earlier societies that collapsed due to lack of water resources is the we HAVE the means to cope with it by utilizing technology that already exists (de-sal plants and nuclear power)

But we won’t.

We deserve to fail simply because of that.  The people who rebuild afterwards won’t be as stupid as we are. [/quote]

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