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A Trump wish to make Canada the 51st State is not just for trade, fuel and minerals, it could also be for water. Canada has 20% of the world's fresh water, and that brings up the subject again (I covered it long ago) of Water Wars. The author of the book on the subject, Marq DeVilliers, was a client of mine, and I attended the preview of its introduction.
My BFF at Hamilton AFB in CA was livid when I had to ticket him for wasting water.
The base commander lived across the street and had made it mandatory to wash cars ( if you insist) on the lawn, not the driveway or on the street.
The West Pointer lost his sense of humor a lot quicker than he lost his hair, lol.
Well, washing one's car is not such a necessity in most cases, but actually washing it on one's lawn makes a certain amount of sense.
I think data centers is going to be the next NIMBY issue the public faces , at least here in my state , they are promising closed loop cooling systems with minimal discharge . issue just came up over by Cheyenne where a data center ran by Meta discharged contaminated water into the reclamation system and shut the system down while its cleaned and repaired for the next 6 months they have estimated .
my annual ritual of watering my property for a day before the 4th due to fireworks was cut down to half a day because i wanted to make sure my portable cisterns were full just incase of a fire close by and was headed my way .
I researched the issue a little bit, partly because I deal with closed loop cooling systems.
The issue is (per ChatGPT):
Sounds to me like this was an occurrence of a bacterium that was not on anyone's radar screens to be aware of. It also sounds like the datacenters are already using the closed-loop cooling systems and that this was a totally unforeseen glitch.
I bet they test for the bacterium from now on.
As far as being the start of a new NIMBY craze, it really does not sound like a good fit for that. But some people will protest just to protest.
It's all ljust too technical for me.
Watering your property just before a fireworks display makes really good sense.
Water use is another problem made worse by overpopulation.
There are a lot of nations with much less population where there are still water problems. The expression "Waste not, want not" is relevant here.
" Waste not, want not" is relevant here."
True but more people use more water even if they are efficient with what they use. .
Maybe I was just lucky always living next to Lake Ontario while in Canada. Here there is a huge reservoir that we can walk to.