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A Back-of-the-Envelope Master at work (on how to get renewable drinking water for 2m people.)

Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson on Global Swadeshi fleshing out how to provide water security for the Canary Islands.

I just love this post. This is exactly the kind of magic that I hoped that Global Swadeshi would produce. Now let’s build it!

I’ll note that the same logic applies to the dry coastlines of Africa too. And I bet there are ways, at scale, of cutting corners we can’t even imagine now.

This was written by Vinay Gupta. Posted on Monday, October 13, 2008, at 10:14 pm. Filed under Personal, Science, The Global Picture. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

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