Excellent point!

I need to research this more.
On a side note, there's plenty of fresh water if we drill for it!
But it gives certain areas, a good hold on the population, and more taxes.
Fresh water, as said before, is always here, just have to learn how to get it where we need it!
Granted, that Lake Mead is failing.
It's just the way this earth operates.
As far as fresh water being used for power, ?????? Have to question the point.
Hydro dams use water, for power, but the water is still there.
Hydro dams do hurt the ecosystem as far as fish spawning in the head waters goes.
So maybe , divert enough around a large lake enough to help the spawning , but still have the dam?
Kind of like in Nigarga!

Israel has some sort of highly permeable membrane that fresh water can pass through, that salt can't. Most of the freshwater used in Israel is from salt water. The Pacific Ocean, with the right technology, has more water than we can ever use.

I have seen before that California has draconian laws on allowing higher salinity water, from desalination processes, to be released back into the ocean, even though experts say it wouldn't change the salinity enough to hurt any known species. It's likely the liberal politicians prohibiting it get paid to keep water prices high.

Keith

"The human body is 60% water. Higher population means more water is walking around and not available. At some point, the amount of available water can no longer sustain the population."

Excellent point!!!
I say we start with the communists.
Instead of reducing them to soylent green for food, we just squeeze all the water out of them.
Every drop matters!

That's what they did to people in "Dune".

Keith