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Originally Posted by Rochard
What I don't understand is.... Why isn't the US building massive desalination plants (used to make salt water / sea water so we can use it as drinking water) up north on the Atlantic and Pacific, and build huge canals to carry this water down to the south?
Don't tell me it cannot be done - There are entire countries who live on desalination plants, and we have the California Aqueduct which carries water down from Sacramento down to Southern California.
The expense would massive but I bet you it would create tens of thousands of jobs...
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The USA has the same problem most other governments have, and that is they do not prepare for such events, even though the odds of a lot of bad shit happening are very high. While a drought is hitting the USA, it's monsoon season here in Asia, and while every single year some of the countries over here get decimated by massive flooding, it seems the governments are still always unprepared to deal with it.
You see how they handle natural disasters, it's usually a disaster. Most other nations are the same. I think it's safe to say that those in the government either don't care about the people, or suffer from the normalcy bias like the majority of their citizens do.
Meanwhile, preppers who are often ridiculed by the masses store food and drill their own water wells. Go figure.