The problem of whether the irrigation ditch is dug on your land or your neighbor's land is a political problem. The problem of how the water is priced (heavily subsidized by taxpayers, or with full cost of delivering the water passed on to the consumers) is a political problem. Both of these can also be legal problems. Engineers might enjoy their work better in many cases if they understood more about the constraints on their work imposed by other issues dealt with by other specialists.
LOL. Funniest thing I have read in a while. Would be funnier if it weren't true that the retarded postmodernist pussies in certain academic departments actually do think along those lines...
No, its a political problem because it is a money issue not a technology issue.
We can have infinite water if we have nuclear powered reactors running massive desalination plants on the coasts with big pumps pushing it through huge pipes to anywhere you need it.
At the minimum -
- But we can't get past political opposition to nuclear power
- Not in my bad yard! (Desalination plant * nuclear)
- Who is forced to have the pipe run under their home (plus eminent domain issues)
- Are the states paying for it? The federal government?
- Why should I subsidize the people living in the dessert?
