Category Archives: Desalination

Don’t Take My Word For It

In John Mauldin’s most recent letter, he had these wise words (among others) to offer… I queried several venture capitalists, who see literally thousands and thousands of business proposals. While lots of people are working on it, they are aware of nothing on the near horizon. Water may be my #1 concern about the future. It [...]
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Which is cooler Bahrain or Dubai?

Doesn’t matter, both are uber cool stories to me. Below, is a desal plant, in Bahrain. It produces 60 Million Gallons of H2O per day. See, Bahrain, was not as cursed by the dutch disease as Dubai is.  That’s why, this plant, is extra cool in my eyes. Photo curtousy of Sidem.
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Pissed Farmers

While 1500 farmers are offing themselves…California farmers are protesting. I’d love to sit down with one of these California farmers, and say something like “What exactly do you expect Arnold to do, about the environment you chose to farm in?  What exactly do you expect Arnold to do, about too many people living in an area [...]
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Developers & Desal

If you think I’m making up the problem of water scarcity, or you think it’s a problem for places far far away, or it’s just another hippy trend that isn’t real – talk to the developers in California who have piles of wood stacked up that they can’t turn into houses because the state won’t [...]
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