Black Silk - Chinese J-20 Stealth Fighter Takes Off

Re:Black Silk - Chinese J-20 Stealth Fighter Takes Off by cabalamat on Tuesday January 11, 2011 @11:45PM (#2095007)

> Desalinated water costs 50 cents per cubic metre in Singapore. 8 cups of water per day times 365 days gives 2/3 of a cubic meter. 35 cents per person per year. Even the poorest of the poor can afford that.

The issue is irrigation, not drinking water.

Food to feed a person requires farming. If the natural rainfall isn't enough, it requires irrigation too. Lots of farming is done with irrigation, as has been true for millenia.

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Re:Black Silk - Chinese J-20 Stealth Fighter Takes Off by bryanlarsen on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @03:53PM (#2097649)

Far better to teach the farmers dryland farming techniques rather than destroying their soil through the use of irrigation. Wheat can be grown in areas that only receive 12 inches of rain a year, which is technically considered a desert.

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