Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
by RandallBrown on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:43PM
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Not everywhere with abundant natural water sources are very good for growing crops.
Warm dry places tend to be good because you can grow crops there year round and they get a lot of sunlight. That's not necessarily the case in places with lots of natural water.
Of course, we do farm in places with lots of water too, it's just not the same crops.
Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
by pfannkuchen on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @05:10PM
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It feels like deleting out of season produce or relocating it to the opposite hemisphere is less bad than people living in these regions being super water constrained in day to day living. Also anecdotally I don’t see much out of season produce coming from arid parts of the US, it’s all South America or Mexico already anyway AFAICT.
Can’t we just farm in places with abundant natural sources of water and transport it to places without? Or transport the water.
Places without water tend to have more sun, so we could probably work out some kind of energy-for-water trade.