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		spydum on Sept 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Extraordinary California Drought of 2013-2014 If history teach us much, the scarcity will spark innovation in water efficiency. Most of the US has been pretty lax when it comes to water usage. Perhaps large scale desalination efficiency will be found, or atmospheric moisture extraction will take off. Imagine if you could get some order of magnitude improvements on these technologies.. Consider reversing the flow of water now: pump from ocean, back up the land, and let each consumer desalinate on premise?

deciplex on Sept 30, 2014 [–]

Another thing history might teach is that when critical resources like food and water are so poorly and corruptly managed that the result is famine and drought, millions of people can die. I suppose we're going to call that disruptive innovation?

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