Drought-struck Barcelona quenches thirst with costly desalination

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1 pointPaulHoule2 comments

I live in NYC and was recently surprised to learn that despite the population, we don't rely at all on desalination. Pure water catchment. Good YT doc on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDLkOWW0_xg

If you looked at the Northeast in the U.S. you wouldn't think there was a global water problem. See

https://www.nyc.gov/html/nycwater/html/drinking/reservoir.sh...

Problem is that people don't want to live in places that have winter, so they dogpile in California, Arizona, etc.

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