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The State of California took an unprecedented move today [June 14] by uniformly restricting water supplies across the entire state. Farms will be most affected, although food prices aren't anticipated to rise in any hurry: imports from out of state continue apace. It's notable that this is a problem Silicon Valley hasn't been helping to solve.
Will this move force some much-needed modernization upon the infrastructure supporting the state's 38 million residents? Or will things continue to be corn, corn, corn for the time being?
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California Orders its Largest Water Cuts in History
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday June 15 2015, @05:20PM
Hmm I suppose there are two strategies to getting enough O2 in there to keep it aerobic and react everything, one is pump tons of compressed air and use all manner of sprayers and stuff like our city does and the other is to use a really freaking big pond, as obviously an entire great lake's worth of fish poop directly into the great lakes without any real problem. I would imagine it depends on land costs too. And labor costs, something full of pumps takes more labor than a giant pond.
I have occasionally wondered as a non-navigable river community why they don't put in dams or water wheels to run the sewer plant. There must be some way to optimize the plant energy consumption to match whatever power can be extracted from the river.
Another interesting idea is can you just dump sewage into a pool all night long and run a sewage plant using nothing other than a huge solar array during the day?
Finally I wonder how they run the thing in the middle of winter when its -20F without anything freezing up. If the river ever froze, I think they'd be in substantial trouble, but in 40 years I've never heard anything like that.