INCREASING WATER SUPPLIES. Some Advice from an Expert Robert Glennon You will get to talk to him via...

INCREASING WATER SUPPLIES

Some Advice from an Expert

• Robert Glennon• You will get to talk to

him via internet conference the week before Thanksgiving break

• Could be fun!

• Water Crisis

Seeding Clouds

• Use hydroscopic salts to create condensation nuclei and increase rainfall amounts

Water Relocation• Towing Icebergs from

Arctic or Antarctic to arid regions

• Japan attempts to strike a deal with Canada to remove water from Lake Superior aka Global Trade in Water

• Global Water Trade• Water Bags

A few words about privatization

• Bolivia is still in big trouble.

• Is there a place for privatization?– Outlay of monies to

maintain facility – Running of the facility– Who owns the water?

Geneva Steel Mill Utah• 1999 Declared

bankruptcy• Sold site for 46.8 Million• Sold machinery to

Chinese for 40 Million• Sold 7,000 tons of

emission for 4 million• Grand Total of 101.8

Million• Sold water rights for

102.5 Million

Santa Fe Wet Rights

• In 2005 Santa Fe enacted water rights transfers which requires developers to bring water rights to the table when requesting a permit

• Water rights skyrockted from $7,500 an acre foot to $35,000 an acre foot in 2007

• They paid it but of course pass that cost onto home owners

Developers of Santa Fe create Water Bank

• Developer purchase water rights in advance and then “deposit” them into a water bank

• Prior Appropriation-set in the west so that no water hoarding occurred. Farmers had rights to the water they were currently using, not to water they thought they were going to use.

DESALINATION

• Removal of salt by distillation, freezing, or ultra-filtration

• Reverse Osmosis forcing water under pressure through a semi-permeable membrane whose tiny pores allow water to pass, but excludes salts and minerals

• Desal by Planet 100

Water Harvesting

• Help your house to harvest water

• Lifestraw

Here is an idea……

CONSERVATION!

Conservation

• Is the “mother” of invention!

• How do we use water?• Where are we wasting

water?• How can we do this

better?

King Street Center in Seattle

• Video- Edens Lost and Found

Greywater Gorillas

• Grey Water Gorillas

Basic Water Conservation Ideas

• Limit running water• Alter landscaping to

native and drought resistant species

• Rain Barrels/ Cisterns• Boil water/ recollect

cool and use for watering

Water Conservation Technology

• Great Ideas for Water Conservation• More Great Ideas!

Maybe we can

• Employ the elderly to enforce laws• Train dogs to sniff out water wastes and help

with enforcement• Encourage and educate the average Joe to

become involved!