Sea level rise and drinking water shortage and lower transportation cost! A solution. Any Thoughts?

Displacement of sea water.
The Roman Empire used aquaducts to distribute drinking water inland. To landlocked areas.
A) the stones used in that construction may have increased the rate of sea water desalinisation, making it potable water. And b) perhaps sea water was less salty back then?
Regardless, as the ocean level increases and land area becomes less perhaps a canal system aquaduct artifical (human created) river way distributuon network would alleviate water shortages create more arable (farmable) land and decrease overcrowding?
Fishing would be easier? Though with less space maybe fewer fish.

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dirge · M

usually roman aqueducts (at least afaik, all that I've seen info about) went from nearby mountains/springs to cities; I don't know of any taking water from the ocean inland
irrigating with saltwater is a good way to ruin the land's ability to sustain crops for geologic ages so you have to be careful with where that can leak to/around.
if we had a viable way to take low point desert arid places with no/minimal plant or animal life (sandy sahara desert type stuff) and pump in enough ocean water, we could theoretically expand the surface area for algae to pull co2 out of the air and put more water vapor in which could help nearby areas get more rainwater. but that seems like an expensive and potentiality problematic fix to implement.

exchrist · 36-40

@dirge yes salt will ruin farm land. My proposition is perhaps the type of stoneused in aquaducts might act to desalinate water too?

dirge · M

@exchrist I don't see how it could; there are all sorts of stones all over/in the ocean and it never really reduces its salt content except by evaporating out the water and leaving the salt behind. if there is a means or removing salts by just using a special stone, I'd think that would be used in place of the high electricity usage desalination plants currently at work in a few places.

my point for the farm land being that if you're bringing the water in via stone ductwork, you can hit the ruining land problem by experiencing a leak along the way - so even if such a stone exists to pull out all the salt, I'd assume it needs an extended amount of time in contact with the stone, if the duct is damaged or leaky you hit the ruined land problems.

exchrist · 36-40

@dirge there are also vast salt deposits on the floor of the ocean. Eventually we will have mapped the ocean floor completely. It wouldnt be a special stone itd be a serious of elements (stones) with ionic charges that either extract neutralize or allow to drop out of suspension sodoium chloride or one or the other elements seperately.
Look idk exactly but certainly desalination can be accomplished in a way besides boiling water and leaving only salt behind.

jehova · 36-40, M

And it might allow easier transportation of goods by water transport.

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CreyvinMoorhead · 36-40, M

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exchrist · 36-40

@CreyvinMoorhead pretty great. We need more of this.

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