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Fresh water is the new global warming scam. There's water everywhere, just nobody wants to route it properly. Instead just complain and wait for the leaders to leverage it to stay elected.

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Have you considered, as a service to humanity or yourself, to teach and share how this could be done "properly"? You clearly appear to have some knowledge of techniques that, while you think them obvious, other people don't seem to understand (not even on HN, as the downvotes indicate).

At the same time, these techniques could solve a lot of issues including people losing their livelihoods, mass migration, devastation or even wars.

So don't you think sharing how to do it would be worth infinitely more than your one-liner comment?

Can you explain where the article is wrong in saying that Peru has limited fresh water supplies? After that, explain “everywhere” including arid and desert regions. Please cite sources and your level of expertise.

The fact is that water is plentiful in some areas while insufficient in others (and the areas can change over time), but so fucking what - you cannot transport it efficiently enough. Well, sometimes you can: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man-Made_River

Oh, as a native Southern Californian I completely understand this. It’s amazing to me that anyone can claim this is no big deal like there aren’t billions of dollars at stake in agriculture and industrial usage.

Yeah, not to mention just how old this problem is. Ever heard of Roman aqueducts? :)

Is this the comment section of a news site or are you trying to grade a university-level student essay?

Asking someone to support very broad claims isn't “university-level” and in this case, it's something which would be world-changing if true.

The manner in which it was asked was very poor.

Poor, or incompatible with your personal political beliefs? The person I was responding to is a science denier who made a claim he couldn’t back up which is incompatible with most of human experience. It’s unclear why you are so committed to their defense?

Good lord, now you're accusing me of defending the guy? Cool it.

Okay, so what was your goal? I asked him to explain a provocative take contradicting the article. This didn’t seem especially outlandish, but you reacted as if explaining what he meant was some kind of extraordinary burden.

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