Re-Deploy
Kawishiwi AO-146 I saw this on the internet today
about using old ships as desalination
plants. I was thinking this was
a great idea. My Dad said the Kawishiwi did a lot of this while he was
on board taking care of other ships who were having problems with their
evaps.
Sincerely, LiaLinks |
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 Lia Spilmon Burris ET1
(SW) and Marion A.
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I think it is a
good Idea if someone has the money to buy a few of these ships and fit
them out as mobile desalination units and rent them out to areas untill
they find a better more permanant solution to their water problems. It
is a great dream. I am worried a little bit about the world water
problem. David Kreamer's vision is to return old ships to the seas where they belong. But he'd like to see them fulfill a new purpose: turning sea water into drinking water through desalination facilities installed aboard. According to Kreamer, a geoscientist at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, hundreds of mothballed military and
private ships could be well adapted as mobile desalination
plants. Lia - Tue 10/7/2008 6:06 AM
They would deploy them to
areas lacking fresh pure water. There are a lot of them. Haiti is a big
one. There are some places in India. Some dry drought areas or flooded
polluted areas in Africa. There are some areas even in the
Mediterranean
where the prices for fresh water is very expensive.
You would not just use this for disaster relief but as a productive business for areas where it would be more expensive to ship the water in and less to just make the water on site. Especially in the rich regions who can afford the money for the fuel to run the ships and the water would be welcome. Possibly more pure and healthy than water that has been pumped and remains in tanks for weeks and weeks before it arrives. Especially how people worry about the chemicals that leak out of the plastics into the water. And all the pollution the plastic bottles put into our environment and the expense to make them. We have the technology to make very good tasting pure water. Better than some mountain springs which are not as pure as they would have you believe. The Great Lakes region just signed a pack not to send its 20 percent of the words high quality water out of the region. It is time people quit relying on that large natural store of water to solve their water crises that everyone can see coming in the future. The Great Lakes will not solve the water Crisis the will be soon looming for most of the world. People need to start creating Water purification systems that work for their region. Some peoples glaciers are soon to be gone they will be without fresh water soon themselves. There are a few area's now but in 10 years there will be much more. Atlanta is dry and getting dryer every year. Central California is pumping so much water out that the salt water is starting to intrude inland. The Colorado river is having problems. It goes on and on. People worry about the Lack of Oil but it is the Lack of fresh water that will really change the world. There are already water wars going on. Look at the problems in Egypt. Where the Nile is starting to have problems. The Danube is suffering. Chinas Rivers are very polluted from all the new industries and the lack of environmental controls. Even the Mississippi is having trouble because it is being used for farm runoff and as a roadway for large vessels. I don't know how people can live around the lower Mississippi and not smell the sickness in the river in the summer. It is not a clean marshy stink but a nasty chemical stink I smell. We drive by on the way to Oklahoma. A lot of the fish are dying. During floods people cannot drink their water because the pollution in the Mississippi works its way into the city water supplies like it did last summer. Lia - Tue 10/7/2008 9:58 AM Clean water is becoming a
valuable commodity. When dealing with selling the idea of large ships
as purification units this becomes even more important for our future.
Clean water is more necessary than Oil. And may someday be more
valuable in some areas of the world. I use to look at the idea of
bottle water as weird because most of the water that came out of my tap
was clean but when I really started reading about areas of the world
who did not live in such a blessed area of the world as I do I realized
how important water is to people and why some people have started
selling it. This is why some people have been so hot about the global
warming issue besides drowning all their privately owned Island under
water it is also causing problems with salt water going in areas that
it never had been in before like Florida where they pump so much fresh
water out that the salt water started seeping in and the land in some
area just sinks and becomes big sinkholes which was my worst nightmare
when I was little. I use to dream the house was sinking in a hole of
mud. This is worse than falling off a cliff.
Love, Lia
- Tue 10/7/2008 10:53 AMI was looking at sites for World Water wars and came across this video site. Polar sells water like White Mountain and Nestle. I have not watched it yet but am interested in the way they advertised it as an information video. I am going to look it up and watch it too. I hope it is not boring. The UN has a bunch of information also warning about the problem with water in the world. How water use is outstripping its availability. There are already people complaining that the animal farms are too close to the vegetable farms and ecoli is contaminating the vegetables. And the way it spreads is through the irrigation water. Or even the water in the plants used to clean the vegetables not being clean. How antibiotics in the water from the animals waste make the bacteria that survive even stronger. 3 things they teach you that humans need to survive in this world. Food, Water, and Shelter. And without water, Shelter and food become hard to come by also. I am beginning to feel like a water advertisement. This is enough ranting for me. I have been going on to my sister about this a few months ago for Days. It was because they were talking about the Great Lakes Water Compact this past summer and they had this big Water report Last year on the news. I asked her if she felt very fortunate for living near the Great Lakes when they were talking about the water problems in so many places. I thought the news from Atlanta last summer and some other places where they were out of water were kind of scary. You should have seen the huge sand storm video on the internet the other day in the middle east. If something were to happen to the River that runs through Iraq it would be following the predictions in the bible. The whole place would be desolate. It would be very sad. Just because I feel that those things are possible does not mean I want them to happen. L I N K S
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