Water Crisis

Castle-Yankee54 · Jan 16, 2018

Toroid said:
The Top 5 Countries with the Most Fresh Water

Considering its a fairly small country with mostly arid climates its obvious its gone thru droughts before. All they have to do is utilize the water sources they have in country and use what they have wisely and they'll be fine.

CasualBystander · Jan 17, 2018

August said:
Who is she ?

Santa Barbara is Santa Claus younger sister.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-mudslide-santa-barbara-20180110-story.html

A location in California, which supposedly is in drought again, where mudslides are washing the houses off the hillsides.

The drought/no more snow meme by warmunists is getting a little old. This week biter cold (or is it bitter) and snow hit Alabama. In Alabama they wear winter jackets when it is 60°F.

Toroid · Feb 2, 2018

Shocking satellite images show Cape Town drying out | Daily Mail Online

These shocking satellite images show how much Cape Town's largest reservoir has dried up as the country faces a major water crisis.

Theewaterskloof Dam can hold around 480,000 megalitres, or 126 billion gallons and accounts for half the water held by dams in the region.

But due to severe drought and population growth it is now only 13 per cent full, down from 14 per cent last week.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5339593/Shocking-satellite-images-Cape-Town-drying-out.html#ixz5y0puAwR
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FFH · Feb 2, 2018

Toroid said:
Shocking satellite images show Cape Town drying out | Daily Mail Online

I'm fully ignorant here but how can a city near the ocean suffer from drought? No salt-to-sweet water technologies?

CasualBystander · Feb 2, 2018

FFH said:
I'm fully ignorant here but how can a city near the ocean suffer from drought? No salt-to-sweet water technologies?

Cape town is basically a triangle surrounded by ocean on two sides.

A couple billion for a Soviet or Chinese nuclear desalinization station and they are good to go.

August · Feb 2, 2018

Their water time is running out fast they are down to 50 litres of water each per day now.

Castle-Yankee54 · Feb 2, 2018

FFH said:
I'm fully ignorant here but how can a city near the ocean suffer from drought? No salt-to-sweet water technologies?

desalination costs a lot of money.....but this is a very bad drought and remember this is already a very arid climate.

I'm wondering why they don't try and develop some groundwater sources.

nivek · Feb 2, 2018

Castle-Yankee54 said:
desalination costs a lot of money.....but this is a very bad drought and remember this is already a very arid climate.

I'm wondering why they don't try and develop some groundwater sources.

Is there a nuclear power plant in that region?...If so they could make it useful for desalination by using the excess heat to evaporate the sea water and condense the pure water...

August · Feb 2, 2018

South Africa's water crisis spreads from Cape Town

Cape Town cuts water use limit by nearly half - CNN

August · Feb 2, 2018

South Africa's water crisis spreads from Cape Town

Cape Town cuts water use limit by nearly half - CNN

Castle-Yankee54 · Feb 2, 2018

nivek said:
Is there a nuclear power plant in that region?...If so they could make it useful for desalination by using the excess heat to evaporate the sea water and condense the pure water...

I'm not sure......but it would still cost a lot of money. I haven't heard much about groundwater usage so I wonder if they are even trying that source.

August · Feb 2, 2018

95 days of water left. 9th May 2018 their water will run out.
How Many Days Of Water Does Cape Town Have Left?

nivek · Feb 2, 2018

Castle-Yankee54 said:
I'm not sure......but it would still cost a lot of money. I haven't heard much about groundwater usage so I wonder if they are even trying that source.

Apparently there are two ground water sources, the Table Mountain Group Aquifer and Cape Flats Aquifer but there seem to be multiple issues and perhaps some incompetence in leading that project....

This article is from last October...

Cape Town's groundwater plan targets 'impossible'

Castle-Yankee54 · Feb 2, 2018

nivek said:
Apparently there are two ground water sources, the Table Mountain Group Aquifer and Cape Flats Aquifer but there seem to be multiple issues and perhaps some incompetence in leading that project....

This article is from last October...

Cape Town's groundwater plan targets 'impossible'

Thanks....one of the people said it perfectly......"we've waited to long"..... :Whistle:

CasualBystander · Feb 2, 2018

August said:
Their water time is running out fast they are down to 50 litres of water each per day now.

Cape Town is surrounded by 1,332,000,000,000,000,000,000 liters of water.

They do not have a water shortage.

In fact there is 1 cubic kilometer of water for every 4 humans on the planet.

Toroid · Feb 2, 2018

FFH said:
I'm fully ignorant here but how can a city near the ocean suffer from drought? No salt-to-sweet water technologies?

Most counties can't afford desalinization and they probably didn't think they would need it.

3FEL9 · Feb 3, 2018

https://watereuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WateReuse_Desal_Cost_White_Paper.pdf

CasualBystander · Feb 3, 2018

3FEL9 said:
https://watereuse.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/WateReuse_Desal_Cost_White_Paper.pdf

Nation’s largest ocean desalination plant goes up near San Diego; Future of the California coast? – The Mercury News

$2000 per acre foot is the going number for osmosis. I believe Australians have found a way to do it more expensively.

Flash steam depends on how cheap nuclear power is (for the reactor).

A nuclear plant produces 3 times heat as power. So flashing steam directly makes sense or using waste heat to desalinate.

3FEL9 · Feb 3, 2018

CasualBystander said:
Nation’s largest ocean desalination plant goes up near San Diego; Future of the California coast? – The Mercury News

$2000 per acre foot is the going number for osmosis. I believe Australians have found a way to do it more expensively.

Flash steam depends on how cheap nuclear power is (for the reactor).

A nuclear plant produces 3 times heat as power. So flashing steam directly makes sense or using waste heat to desalinate.

If I were in charge I would have designed and built a breeder reactor for the purpose, preferably a liquid salt type..

But I'm not. So their only option is to drill a very deep well inland..

Castle-Yankee54 · Feb 3, 2018

3FEL9 said:
If I were in charge I would have designed and built a breeder reactor for the purpose, preferably a liquid salt type..

But I'm not. So their only option is to drill a very deep well inland..

Actually they should drill a series of well fields and develop other sources like it done in other locations.

3FEL9 · Feb 3, 2018

CasualBystander said:
Nation’s largest ocean desalination plant goes up near San Diego; Future of the California coast? – The Mercury News

$2000 per acre foot is the going number for osmosis. I believe Australians have found a way to do it more expensively.

Flash steam depends on how cheap nuclear power is (for the reactor).

A nuclear plant produces 3 times heat as power. So flashing steam directly makes sense or using waste heat to desalinate.

That plant in Cali used reversed osmosis and required 38 MWe of power to run the pumps..

Not very clever. Sitting next door to the coal fired power plant they should have used the waste heat to power a evaporation process instead. Doing so would have reduced the cost of the produced water several times

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