Reply #15: Here are some ideas that could be put to use.

[kentauros]

While many of the items at the site linked below are definitely in the "fringe" category, sometimes they have some truly viable ideas published. I've linked the ones for desalinization/recovery and other water-collection projects. (Some of these are mostly the various patent transcripts and can be a chore to read...)


Desalinization

Desalination Heliostat - Device Offers End to Fresh Water Shortage

James Tang & Joshua Zoshi - Desalination

Sharif Adel - Desalination

500 Desalination Patents

Advances In Desalination: The Aul EGD Process


Water Treatment/Recovery

Merle de KREUK, et al. - Waste Water Treatment


Water Collection

"Air Wells"

Maxwell Whisson - Air Well

Frank Theilow - Air Well
[br />Wolf Klaphake - Air Wells

Michael Ellsworth, et al. - Atmospheric Water Generator

Air Wells, Dew Ponds & Fog Fences


"Dew Collectors"

QinetiQ ( R. COHEN, et al. ) - Dew Collector

Marc Parent - Air Well

Dew Pond - Construction details



One thing about all of this that would help more than any of the above is for our local governments to stop being "followers" and start being "leaders" again. That is, stop with the "studying a process to death" and act on it, whether it's "proven" technology or not. We are out of time for decades-long studies. The City of Houston seems to be very good at studies and not so good at implementing anything of merit or substance. And thus, why we have only one light-rail line to show for all those studies in the last 20 years. We used to be "Space City" due to the forethought and innovations of NASA. Maybe we still are, but it appears to be more in reference to the space between the ears of of so-called elected and entrenched officials these days.

We need to act or we really will have to move out of the state because it will become inhabitable due to waiting too long in doing anything substantive!