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Originally Posted by GGG
I haven’t read the book but the Water thing is often misstated.
Yes Canada has 1/3rds of the supply of fresh water. The problem is it’s in Canada not in California. It costs $10 a barrel to ship oil via pipeline to the southern US. Thats $62 per m^3. Let’s say it’s 10 times cheaper to ship water down to $6 per m^3. I can desalinate for $1 per m^3
The continental divides mean you can’t just dredge.
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Or, if you have the greatest military in human history...you can just take it....
The point is that many places have drought crisis on their hands, and water is a vital substance for life, it's not oil. When taps run dry s*** will go down fast. And we don't have a lot of means of protecting it, especially if the US is the one that decides they want it.