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mejiac Really good article Barbara, I think you hit the nail on the head by stating that "The key thing is to hire a team of professionals with experience in greening historic buildings." This makes perfect...
Faustin Very interesting, indeed... Thank you Alexander
Hazel Personal consumption might not be the biggest draw, but it's still consumption all the same and I think what Spain is doing to this end is pretty effective. People experience the effect of their...
Susan Leach One side note: The Torrevieja desalination plant mentioned in the FT article -- the largest is Europe and second largest in the world -- is about to start operations, after five years of political...
Susan Leach Yes, it's primarily sea water -- the Mediterranean in this case. But it's not uncontroversial. There are those who think desalination plants are a good back up solution, but not realistic as a main...
Nicole Ferraro Hi Susan. I didn't know that! Thanks for the info. So is the primary purpose for desalination of ocean water, then?
Susan Leach Nicole, you might be interested to know that Spain is the largest user of desalination plants in Europe -- maybe in the Western world. They built the first one almost 50 years ago in the Canary Islands,...
Susan Leach One thing they do here in Spain is increase the cost of water the more you use. So the tarrif per cubic meter goes up with consumption. And even renters pay for water here. It makes one much...
Davedgreat2000 Arv, thank you. With rain water harvesting all one needs is a large water barrel and attach it to your roof drainage system, you would not be collecting thousands of gallons of water but at most...
arv As your username goes you are Dave-d-great!!! you make very good points, 1. if water lands in the corporations hand then people will suffer and 2. about the Desal plants. With so much of...
Davedgreat2000 People barely have enough money to buy food let alone water, if these companies have their ways they will control all the water and be able to charge any price they want. People will die if they...
Nicole Ferraro "If you think prices for water are bad now, wait until companies get a hold on it...oh wait they already have...Bottled water" Too true, Davedgreat! It actually blows my mind that bottled water...
Davedgreat2000 Nicole, you are welcome. I agree with you to a point. Like I asked before, What are we to do? we need water. And more and more water is polluted or being used for farming or even beautification of...
Nicole Ferraro Thanks for the link, Davedgreat! To be sure, I support the desalination of ground water more than the desalination of water straight from the ocean. I think that desal itself, while a bit costly,...
Davedgreat2000 Nicole, Do you know that when they take water out of the ground in most places they have to Desal it before sending it to Farmers and the general population. I think the ground water has become so...
Nicole Ferraro "Nicole, If not Desal, what are we going to be drinking, our own Urine?" Ha, well, sort of... I mean the other obvious option is recycled wastewater. I don't think that should be passed up in favor...
Davedgreat2000 Nicole, If not Desal, what are we going to be drinking, our own Urine? There are advantages and disadvantages to it but for now its all we may have. conservation is one thing but it cna't solve all...
Nicole Ferraro Davedgreat2000: Yes, I agree on dehumidifiers. And I'm also not encouraged to hear about desal being on the rise because I don't think we should be all that eager about taking water from our ocea...
Nicole Ferraro Davedgreat2000: Yes, I agree on dehumidifiers. And I'm also not encouraged to hear about desal being on the rise because I don't think we should be all that eager about taking water from our ocea...
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mejiac Really good article Barbara, I think you hit the nail on the head by stating that "The key thing is to hire a team of professionals with experience in greening historic buildings." This makes perfect...
Faustin Very interesting, indeed... Thank you Alexander
Hazel Personal consumption might not be the biggest draw, but it's still consumption all the same and I think what Spain is doing to this end is pretty effective. People experience the effect of their...
Susan Leach One side note: The Torrevieja desalination plant mentioned in the FT article -- the largest is Europe and second largest in the world -- is about to start operations, after five years of political...
Susan Leach Yes, it's primarily sea water -- the Mediterranean in this case. But it's not uncontroversial. There are those who think desalination plants are a good back up solution, but not realistic as a main...
Nicole Ferraro Hi Susan. I didn't know that! Thanks for the info. So is the primary purpose for desalination of ocean water, then?
Susan Leach Nicole, you might be interested to know that Spain is the largest user of desalination plants in Europe -- maybe in the Western world. They built the first one almost 50 years ago in the Canary Islands,...
Susan Leach One thing they do here in Spain is increase the cost of water the more you use. So the tarrif per cubic meter goes up with consumption. And even renters pay for water here. It makes one much...
Davedgreat2000 Arv, thank you. With rain water harvesting all one needs is a large water barrel and attach it to your roof drainage system, you would not be collecting thousands of gallons of water but at most...
arv As your username goes you are Dave-d-great!!! you make very good points, 1. if water lands in the corporations hand then people will suffer and 2. about the Desal plants. With so much of...
Davedgreat2000 People barely have enough money to buy food let alone water, if these companies have their ways they will control all the water and be able to charge any price they want. People will die if they...
Nicole Ferraro "If you think prices for water are bad now, wait until companies get a hold on it...oh wait they already have...Bottled water" Too true, Davedgreat! It actually blows my mind that bottled water...
Davedgreat2000 Nicole, you are welcome. I agree with you to a point. Like I asked before, What are we to do? we need water. And more and more water is polluted or being used for farming or even beautification of...
Nicole Ferraro Thanks for the link, Davedgreat! To be sure, I support the desalination of ground water more than the desalination of water straight from the ocean. I think that desal itself, while a bit costly,...
Davedgreat2000 Nicole, Do you know that when they take water out of the ground in most places they have to Desal it before sending it to Farmers and the general population. I think the ground water has become so...
Nicole Ferraro "Nicole, If not Desal, what are we going to be drinking, our own Urine?" Ha, well, sort of... I mean the other obvious option is recycled wastewater. I don't think that should be passed up in favor...
Davedgreat2000 Nicole, If not Desal, what are we going to be drinking, our own Urine? There are advantages and disadvantages to it but for now its all we may have. conservation is one thing but it cna't solve all...
Nicole Ferraro Davedgreat2000: Yes, I agree on dehumidifiers. And I'm also not encouraged to hear about desal being on the rise because I don't think we should be all that eager about taking water from our ocea...
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