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1. It is only short-sightedness and malicious political agendas that are depriving people of water. There are many nuclear generators near salt water that could be used to desalinate seawater. Canals and pipelines could be built across the US, as an example, to siphon off flood waters from the Mississippi and other rivers that cause so much monetary damage and human and environmental misery. How much water flows daily from the mouths of the great rivers of the world to be lost in the oceans? This water could be siphoned off at the rivers’ mouths and pipelined to the areas most in need, for example, the US west where it could refill Lake Mead, refill aquifers and irrigate farmland. Water reservoirs and storage tanks such as those used to store fuels could be built. Ghadaffi, for all his ills, built that marvellous waterway across the desert which, I believe, was destroyed by malicious governments. Think of all the money wasted waging wars and destroying societies through political misadventure and chicanery that could have been put to good use developing water resources, education, helping third world nations so that their children would not be used as political pawns and an invading force. Think of all the agricultural progress that could have been made with this money training future generations of farmers, developing greenhouse cultures on land unsuitable for in-ground growing, R&D for solar and other power sources. To continue on the way we are is insanity.

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