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delta_p_delta_xtoday at 8:43 PM2 repliesview on HN

> Provide Access to Clean Water

??? We don't need any AI for this.

Start with separated sewage/wastewater and stormwater drains. Then accredited and highly scrutinised wastewater treatment and discharge into water bodies (or see below for a high-tech solution). As for clean water to the home, direct those stormwater drains to new reservoirs which sustain freshwater aquatic life. Protect aquifers from over-drainage, and build pipelines from water-abundant regions to water-scarce regions.

To reclaim waste water or treat unknown water sources back to potable/semiconductor standards we have ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, UV treatment, pH adjustment, fluoridation, desalination, softening (which is generally obviated by RO...). This is basically Singapore's NEWater.

Good sanitation is a financial and political problem. The engineering has been solved for decades now.


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lokartoday at 9:42 PM

Sure you do, go full EA:

Build a better surveillance ads system, and use (some of) that cash to pay for water projects.

michaelbartontoday at 8:52 PM

Agree. Same for better medicines. We could get pretty far just by getting existing medicines that work to people who need them.