Posted by zog
on September 29, 2009, 5:46 pm
The drought has been so bad that residents of Adelaide in Australia will be facing having only trucked in emergency supplies of water soon, and this is a city of 1.3 million people. They have some access to river water, but the drought has made the water so salty that is is getting unsafe to drink. And besides that, poisonous algal blooms in the remaining water are expected.
"Receding water levels in River Murray and lakes Alexandrina and Albert are responsible for the crisis, with a build-up of salinity forcing officials to prepare for the worst."
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26135889-2682,00.html?from=public_rss
Hey, Australia! Much as I am not a fan of the technology, for emergencies, and this is one for sure, I think an exception can be made. You got uranium by the mountain full, so you need to throw down some nuke plants as soon as possible and get some serious desalination going so you know you can have at least bare minimum subsistence levels of drinking and cooking water, while you work out some credible and affordable real long range solutions, like more reservoirs, more water pipelines, more solar power, with perhaps solar thermal desalination as well, a mass switch to hydroponics and controlled drip irrigation for some basic food production, and etc.. We just hit el nino, which means more drought there as long as that lasts.
Idea! The UK is decommissioning one nuke sub, which means there is a nuke powerplant with an easy way to get it there. Just maybe they would sell it to you cheap. Park it in the harbor, send the power to the desal plant, totally dedicated to running just that. Think about it...
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