Salt-Artichoke5347 t1_iz9ff4r wrote on December 7, 2022 at 1:33 PM

Reply to comment by tonymmorley in Jabal: the new wheat scientists say can withstand extreme heat and drought by tonymmorley

just imagine a nuclear power desalinization plants on the med being used to make that drought not a problem

Querch t1_iz9tgd3 wrote on December 7, 2022 at 3:19 PM

Desal water remains expensive, though. It's ultimately better to not have to desalinate seawater to farm crops. If fresh water is that scarce, why not use treated wastewater?

ThePottyMouth t1_izaqatw wrote on December 7, 2022 at 6:57 PM

I work as an Operator at a wastewater treatment plant. There is no true way to remove heavy dissolved metals like mercury or prescription drugs from wastewater to a safe consumable level; they just go through the process and out into the receiving body of water really. This is the problem with that.

rockstoagunfight t1_izc4um3 wrote on December 8, 2022 at 12:43 AM

The mercury one has been tried at least once. No idea if the solution used would be viable for wastewater. Achieving very low mercury levels in refinery wastewater by membrane filtration

Salt-Artichoke5347 t1_izcg9yt wrote on December 8, 2022 at 2:08 AM

it remains expensive due to its energy needs period reduce the costs of the energy needs and well it becomes far less costly. Just like building one in California so they can do it to the ocean water there is better then importing water from eastern states and would help refill the aquifers of all the states. Also israel uses a lot of water from desalinization so it is feasible and useable