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Re: Water wars could become more than theoretical

Post by sun » 17 Jan 2020, 17:57

Hmm... 8)

The planet earth contains more water than any other solid materials. But the majority of water resources on earth are salty water that are not possible to drink like fresh drinking water.

But yet it is possible to desalinate (separating salt from water) salty water and it is being used more and more around the world to provide people with needed freshwater. Water that is saline contains significant amounts of dissolved salts. In this case, the concentration is the amount (by weight) of salt in water, as expressed in "parts per million" (ppm). If water has a concentration of 10,000 ppm of dissolved salts, then one percent of the weight of the water comes from dissolved salts.

The scarcity of freshwater resources and the need for additional water supplies is already critical in many arid regions of the world and will be increasingly important in the future. Many arid areas simply do not have freshwater resources in the form of surface water such as rivers and lakes. They may have only limited underground water resources. Solar desalination evaporation is used by mother nature itself to produce rain, which is the main source of freshwater on earth. So my thanks for mother nature for now and in to the future.

Another method saline water is desalinized is by the "reverse osmosis" procedure. In most simplistic terms, water, containing dissolved salt molecules, is forced through a semipermeable membrane (essentially a filter), in which the larger salt molecules do not get through the membrane holes but the smaller water molecules do. Reverse osmosis is an effective means to desalinate saline water, but it is more expensive than other methods. As prices come down in the future the use of reverse osmosis plants to desalinate large amounts of saline water should become more common. This in turn needs our common home work instead of the usual war talks.

Distillation or desalination is one of mankind's earliest forms of water treatment, and it is still a popular treatment solution throughout the world today. In ancient times, many civilizations used this process on their ships to convert sea water into drinking water. Today, desalination plants are used to convert sea water to drinking water on ships and in many arid regions of the world, and to treat water in other areas that is fouled by natural and unnatural contaminants. Distillation is perhaps the one water treatment technology that most completely reduces the widest range of drinking water contaminants.

By inexpensively turning salt water into drinking water using sustainable solar power, a team from MIT in the US has not only come up with a portable desalination system for use but also offers it anywhere in the world that needs it.
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists ... olar-power

Teen finds cheap way to turn salt water into safe drinking water
https://metro.co.uk/2017/02/04/teen-fin ... r-6426659/

This means, "BINGO! WAR IS NOT THE ONLY OPTION!" :P

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Re: Water wars could become more than theoretical

Post by Dawi » 17 Jan 2020, 18:19

The article says:

"With goodwill it could all be sorted out, but goodwill is notable by its absence.

Egypt is a brutal military dictatorship; Ethiopia is a democracy."

"democracy" Who? :P

Is that right sun? ......"egalitarian" bla bla bla......."ተረኞች"? :~)

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Re: Water wars could become more than theoretical

Post by sun » 17 Jan 2020, 19:08

Dawi wrote:
17 Jan 2020, 18:19
The article says:

"With goodwill it could all be sorted out, but goodwill is notable by its absence.

Egypt is a brutal military dictatorship; Ethiopia is a democracy."

"democracy" Who? :P

Is that right sun? ......"egalitarian" bla bla bla......."ተረኞች"? :~)
Dawi,

Democracy and egalitarianism both in theory and practice are being implemented by the great egalitarian Oromos and their unity as well as their nice friends "in 3000 years" while all of these values are alien to your extremist envious closed nose types who were used and conditioned to the bygone authoritarian tyrannical centralized dictatorship.

Your times and tides have gone never to come back if what you are directly and indirectly moaning day and night is about that or something else. All what you can do is to take up the democratic and the egalitarian positive world view both in theory and practice and then go out to the streets dancing and enjoying the new carnival in the new world. Yes, Oromos must necessarily take up their role as terenyoch (ተረኞች) in having the right to have control over their social, cultural, psychological, political, material, etc. tangible and intangible resources with out interfering in other peoples affairs, other than donating good will and assistance as needed. :P

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Re: Water wars could become more than theoretical

Post by Digital Weyane » 17 Jan 2020, 19:25

The one thing I know for fact is, the Wesf'aatam Egyptians are more afraid of my Weyane brother Awash than the 96 million Ethiopians. My Weyane brother Awash can win a war against Egypt in one day. All he has to do is, translate all his 27 nicknames into the Arabic language and wreck havoc at Egyptian forms. That is gangsta Weyane style! 8) :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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Re: Water wars could become more than theoretical

Post by Tog Wajale » 17 Jan 2020, 19:41

Tell That To Your Dedebit Woorgach Agga*me Tigriayan Pros*titute Who*re Mother.

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Re: Water wars could become more than theoretical

Post by Awash » 18 Jan 2020, 00:07

Nile River dam row: Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan make draft deal

16 January 2020


The Grand Renaissance Dam is a source of national pride for Ethiopia

Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have reached an initial deal on the filling and operation of what will be Africa's biggest hydro-electric dam...
Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-51133364

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