Re:The Colorado River is shrinking
by kortilla on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:35PM
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> Unlivable? Probably not. But more expensive? Absolutely.
The people that move west move to the cities and they are already drastically more expensive than water rich places. The cost of water tripling in LA or SF for residents would be meaningless in the grand scheme of CoL.
Just look at electricity and gas prices in CA for an example of something else people have to pay way more for that realistically doesn’t matter.
Until you’re looking at order of magnitude increases, it will just be noise. And desalination doesn’t even require a 10x increase.
The people that move west move to the cities and they are already drastically more expensive than water rich places. The cost of water tripling in LA or SF for residents would be meaningless in the grand scheme of CoL.
Just look at electricity and gas prices in CA for an example of something else people have to pay way more for that realistically doesn’t matter.
Until you’re looking at order of magnitude increases, it will just be noise. And desalination doesn’t even require a 10x increase.