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Re:Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water by mikro2nd on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:35AM (#16177273)
And, since most power-generation in South Africa is from coal, desalination - it seems to me - is only aggravating the problem (climate change) over the long run.

Yes, we should probably power those plants from some renewable/sustainable source, but that's a different discussion for another day.

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Re:Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:37AM (#16177292)
> since most power-generation in South Africa is from coal

It's sad and crazy that this is still not changing. SA is a very sunny country.

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