On Sunday, February 18, 2018 at 6:30:18 PM UTC, johnny-knowall wrote:
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Couldn’t countries invest in solar powered coastal desalination plants, and
use solar powered pumps to move the water inland, and irrigate crops?
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Or even refill some of those aquifers they(we) have been emptying steadily over the past 50 years.

I've not seen any figures on how much water has been abstracted or, more to the point, how much it may have contributed to sea levels. Even if it's not much, given a long enough programme it would at least very usefully remove from the oceans some water on a semi-permanent basis but still make it available to our children, should they become desperate for it in the future..

As things stand, we're so consumed with using everything we can find that we fail to think ahead in anything we do.