[FRIAM] water, again (was murder offsets)

[Pieter Steenekamp]

I live in a small town Mossel Bay in South Africa with a semi-desert
climate. We have a desalination plant that can supply +/- 60% of normal
potable water usage. It's not for the rich people only, when the dams
supplying water in normal years dry up, everybody, including the
desperately poor people get potable water.

If you allow me to go off-topic for a moment. Mossel Bay is in the Western
Cape province of South Africa and we have plenty of what we call "swallows"
here. It's people from Europe that own second properties and live here in
the European winter when it's summer in South Africa. The summer before
Covid my wife and I were hiking along the coast and we bump into a
"swallow"couple from Switzerland and we started to chat to them. The woman
told us she considers this to be the most beautiful place on earth.
Afterwards we said wow!, coming from a Swiss, it must mean something.

On Mon, 19 Apr 2021 at 17:01, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ha! Sure. ... it still looks like SteveS called it with the Red Queen's
> Race. Even if such tech solves more problems than it creates, it'll still
> be distributed according to the power structures in place (e.g. rich
> people) when the tech's ready to scale.
>
> On 4/19/21 7:54 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> > Again technology to the rescue...   Nanotechnology for desalinization.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ???
> > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2021 7:45 AM
> > To: friam at redfish.com
> > Subject: [FRIAM] water, again (was murder offsets)
> >
> > Copper? Natural gas? Pffft! Water's the interesting one.
> >
> >
> https://theconversation.com/interstate-water-wars-are-heating-up-along-with-the-climate-159092
> >
> > And another one:
> > https://www.theolympian.com/news/business/article250595449.html
> >
> > On 4/15/21 7:59 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> >> Another good example is water rights across states given watersheds,
> >> flood irrigation, etc.
> >> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/05/arizona-water-one-per
> >> centers>
> >>
> >> So, the question you're asking (how might "storage" in BTC be less
> preferable to other assets?) isn't really answerable *without* first
> discussing what that reservoir is *for*, what end does it serve?
>
> --
> ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ
>
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