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Set a goal so that within 20 years 40% of the West Coast's drinking water will come from the ocean.

Submitted by 20 in 20 in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 10, 2014, 4:25 p.m.

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Build water desalinization plants, starting off the California coast. Develop the NAWAPA plans (see link) to bring fresh water, instead of just dirty oil, down from Canada and the arctic regions to the west and southwest US. This should have been started several decades ago, and would be operational by now.

Submitted by Will B. from AZ in Infrastructure & Technology Dec. 12, 2014, 3:26 p.m.

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20 in 20

Infrastructure is not just highways and power lines. Climate change has caused California and other parts of the West to become much dryer. As a large portion of the nations food supply comes from that region water supplies will become more problematic. The technology to accomplish this goal is nearly at hand. This technology could also be exported to other coastal areas of the world where water supplies are also at critical levels.

Dec. 10, 2014, 9:21 p.m.

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