Google gets OK to siphon water for South Carolina plant

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 5:55 PM UTC

corodra wrote: post #43

driverdan wrote: post #39

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Are you saying the average person uses 36,600 gal per year? That seems very high.

549mil gallons allowed to use in a year divided by 365 days equals 1,504,109 daily average for google (let's round to 1.5mil). USGS estimates 80-100 gallons per American per day. 1,500,000 google's daily average water use / 100 gallons per American per day = 15,000 Google will use roughly the equivalent of 15,000 Americans worth of daily water. Further math: 100 gallons per American per day x 365 days = 36,500 per pe…

Post by Merrill » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 9:31 PM UTC

galkk wrote: post #61

Merrill wrote: post #57

>In addition to Google’s request in the Charleston area, mega farms in central South Carolina have been under scrutiny over the amount of groundwater they use to irrigate crops each summer. 549 million gallons is about 1685 acre feet, which isn't very much irrigation water. South Carolina golf courses alone use 9.7 million gallons/day of groundwater for irrigation or 3,540 million gallons per year. SC golf courses us…

> South Carolina golf courses alone use 9.7 million gallons/day of groundwater for irrigation or 3,540 million gallons per year. SC golf courses use a combined total of groundwater and surface water of 14,991 millon gallons per year. That's insane

Post by newnewpdro » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 9:38 PM UTC

jmknoll wrote: post #51

londons_explore wrote: post #10

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This water will be used in evaporative coolers. There won't be warmed water to return. The water gets recycled 50-100 times, and each time a small percentage evaporates into a cloud. The cloud really does make clouds.

What’s stopping the collection and re-condensation of the evaporated water, which can then be returned to the river.

Post by gotAnyEvidence » Fri, Oct 11, 2019, 9:46 PM UTC

xyzzyz wrote: post #63

gotAnyEvidence wrote: post #55

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Do you have any evidence for this claim? Does comparing two separate things automatically make them equivalent? On the flip side, when Foxconn wanted 7 million gallons of water each day from Lake Michigan for it's manufacturing plant, it hit the news. - https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-foxconn-air-p...

How many news about getting water permit you heard last month? How many water permits are issued daily in the country?

Post by AnthonyMouse » Sun, Oct 13, 2019, 1:46 AM UTC

Qwertious wrote: post #69

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #53

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One of them is illegal.

Once you start lobbying/influencing what laws exist, you forfeit the right to justify your actions purely on what's legal. Mainly: if you spend large amounts of money to stop an action becoming illegal or to make it legal, then you can't justify the action by saying "it's legal" without also justifying why it should be legal - given that you just assisted create a law. Amoral actors should not be allowed to control t…