Suriname Will Tow a Giant Bag of Water to Fight the Caribbean's Drought

Re:Suriname Will Tow a Giant Bag of Water to Fight the Carib... by tarr11 on Sunday November 27, 2016 @09:54AM (#13049424)

If people are willing to pay as much for water as they do for oil or gas, can we use oil infrastructure (tankers, pipelines, trains, etc) to transport water?

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Re:Suriname Will Tow a Giant Bag of Water to Fight the Carib... by EricBurnett on Sunday November 27, 2016 @10:04AM (#13049466)

Can we assume they'd be willing? Here in Canada I use orders of magnitude more water than oil products, and would be willing to pay commensurately less.

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Re:Suriname Will Tow a Giant Bag of Water to Fight the Carib... by tarr11 on Sunday November 27, 2016 @10:44AM (#13049685)

http://researcher.watson.ibm.com/researcher/view_group.php?i...

Looks like water costs $2 / cubic meter, and oil costs 100x more than that, so we have a long way to go before this makes any sense.

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