THE WORD FOR 2023 IS "WATER!"
Lake Mead was at 100% capacity in mid-1999. Today it is 28% full. Lake Powell was last full in June 1980, but is at 25% today.
Freshwater lakes contain over 98% of the important surface water available for human use on the planet. Most other continental waters are contained in glaciers, ice sheets, and groundwater.
New York is blessed with a combination of 7,600 freshwater lakes, ponds, and reservoirs, as well of 70,000 miles of rivers and streams. Also, the northern borders of the state include two of the Great Lakes.
Alaska is the #1 state with the most naturally formed lakes, containing 3,197 lakes and over 3 million unnamed lakes!
There is SO MUCH that has and will be said about lack of water resources in the US Mid-West, West and around the world. It is a growing crisis.
PREDICTION:
Alaska will start to supply fresh DRINKING water to California via massive tanker ships. Pipelines will be built in Alaska to facilitate supplying water to ports to fill those ships. .
Investment ideas flowing!
1. 15 years ago there was talk of this. Daniel Zimmer, executive director of the World Water Council in Marseille, said there was a real prospect that fleets of dedicated tankers could shuttle fresh water for essential supplies of fresh drinking water, rather than low-grade agricultural or industrial use.
Zimmer said, “We definitely see it increasing. We expect in the future and even in the short-term, before 2050, more frequent heatwaves and dry periods which could make shipping water economically justifiable."
I wonder if some firm will snap up old decommissioned single-hull tankers on the cheap and line them for puropses of transporting fresh water?
2. Water compression technology. Just wondering...
3. Israel is brilliant at water conservation and desalinzation. Just wondering ...
Starting with a macro-thesis and then projecting how a trend can lead to economic opportunities is fun thinking for me.
THE OTHER WORDS FOR 2023 IS "MAGNETIC SHIELD!"
What's key to understand is that the magnetic shield which protects our earth and all of us is weakening rapidly. This is WAY more important than CO2!
By the way, the two (water and magnetic shield) are inter-related in major ways that many will become aware of in 2023. By 2024 I dare say "awareness" will become "fear" . . . and ultimately "panic."
