Commentary: Achieving water security by becoming water self-sufficient
Posted by: Maven on March 13, 2010 at 7:14 amFrom the San Diego News Room, this guest commentary by Jim Bell, an “internationally-recognized expert on life support sustaining development”:
“Many experts are projecting gloomy scenarios of decreasing water supplies and increasing costs, yet the San Diego/Tijuana Region can easily become renewable water self-sufficient and even develop into a net water exporter.
Even if we assume the worst case scenario of zero precipitation and the complete cutoff of all imported water, the region could completely replace all the freshwater currently used by installing solar panels over 4.3 percent of roofs and parking lots. In 2015, 4.3 percent of our region’s roofs and parking lots will be about 9 sq. miles, or 4.5 sq. miles on each side of the border. … “
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