Welcome to Year Three of Climate Change By the Elements. Our goal on this show is to teach you how to recognize climate change and more importantly what you can do to help fight the most dangerous existential threat to ever face humanity.
Our goal is to remind you while it IS important to reduce your part of the process which we have defined as climate change, climate disaster, or environmental collapse, depending on where you’re sitting when you think about it, the real conversation must be driven by world governments in conjunction with the largest consumers of natural resources for the sake of profit in the world: powerful corporations.
We talked about the future of water. These days there is less and less water to go around. Depending on where you live, you either get too much of it or too little of it.
Four types of water processing being investigated are:
Recycled Water, Desalinated Water, Stormwater, Graywater
Traditionally, California’s water supply comes from surface water (rivers and lakes) and from groundwater. But increasingly, we are looking to other sources for our water – referred to collectively as ‘alternative water sources’.
These include:
• Recycled Water: Water from a municipal wastewater plant that has been treated to the point that it can be safely used again.
• Desalinated Water: Water from the ground or surface (e.g., brackish water or seawater) that has had the excess salts removed from it for use.
• Stormwater: Water from runoff from precipitation events that is captured and sometimes treated for use. The focus is not on reservoir releases for water supply or flood control. Urban dry weather runoff is often discussed in this same context as stormwater.
Graywater: Wastewater from households or office buildings that does not contain human waste and that is diverted and sometimes treated for reuse for landscapes and for flushing toilets.
Extremes of availability are affecting how we are living today and will affect the lives of millions in the future as rising temperatures continue to alter weather patterns all over the globe.
• What is the future of these and many other water management technologies?
• Will they be enough in a world in need of ever-increasing supplies of fresh water for every aspect of society from agriculture, human consumption to manufacturing computer technologies.
• Are there promising advances for gathering or recovering water from the atmosphere?
• Are there any innovative advances for moving water more efficiently from regions of high water to regions of low water?
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