Maude Barlow "Path Dependency & the Rainman of Rajasthan"

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• water reclamation
• desalination
• desalinization
• murray darling basin

[MichaelCarlucci]

She also says that governments know how to spend a billion dollars UNWISELY in one place but do not know how to spend a million dollars WISELY in a million places.

This is also the problem with Desal plants. Governments know there is a problem so they hire a corporation to fix it who stands to make a butt load more money by building one of these "behemoths" but not a lot of money by building the smaller more efficient water purification plants.

[MichaelCarlucci]

According to Maude Barlow, what is wrong with Desal plants is that they have a HUGE carbon footprint, and are very, very expensive to build. We are clearly running out of fresh water and desal plants seem like a logical solution, but when you look at their "True Cost", they are a vastly inefficient way of dealing with the problem.

[bhweller]

what is wrong with desalination plants ?