Because it will just evaporate and then get pissed back into the sea. We would only need to extract it on an as-needed basis, and that costs electricity among other things.

It could be done on a large-scale, maybe continent-wide scale if not country-wide. That way the costs could be better distributed to the consumers.

Why aren't we extracting more fresh water from the oceans or from beneath the earth's surface? — BrianW

Because it's not part of the script.

Because it's not part of the script. — Shamshir

:rofl:

That just makes us sound really dumb. I'm laughing but I'm also terribly ashamed (on the inside) because I know it's true.

I propose we create an emergency movement.

We'll live in massive free energy domes, even with computer rooms powered by wind.

We'll demolish towns and replace with plantations, placing all waste in sealed, deep pockets underground.

We'll opt for green energy alternatives, properly moderate our intake and output.

This is the only way to a healthy future!

It's the oldest trick in the book, as the saying goes. You make the audience watch one hand and con them with the other.

There's a folktale called 'Sick carries the healthy' about a crippled wolf who lugs a sly fox on his back. Things haven't changed.

In Australia, groundwater makes up approximately 17 per cent of accessible water resources and accounts for over 30 per cent of our total water consumption. Some sources are as susceptible to rainfall and drought as dams and river, while others like aquifers are ancient, finite supplies that are replenished much slower than they are being consumed. Groundwater is not a long term solution.

More recently we have desalination plants, which are quite energy intensive for the amount of fresh water they produce - giving with one hand while it takes with the other...

Our best option is still to reduce our per capita consumption of fresh water.

Why are we not extracting more water? Because only poor people have no water.

Because we as humans are bad at long-range, delayed-gratification-type things. If there is not a pressing need right now, other things will take priority.

Desalination of seawater to provide freshwater has actually already turned the tables in Israel.

They were at first having problems with fresh water use, but now it's not a problem anymore. Or hasn't been for years now. Also the newsclip explains the technology too.



So that of the typically totally forgotten and very unpopular positive news about the subject.