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Water scarcity is one of the [[major civilization problems of our time]] (time of writing 2025). <br>
Atomically precise manufacturing and technology ([[gem-gum-tech]]) could potentially completely neutralize this civilization problem. <br>

There are three aspects:
* desalination facilities
* energy for the desalination 
* transport of the water to where it is needed (often far inland)

== Desalination ==

There are several ways to do this.

Most primitive one being boiling and re-condensing. <br>
Even this one could be hugely improved upon by <br>
using high efficiency thermal recuperation (both ways). <br>
See: [[Diamondoid heat pump system]] <br>

A major one being high pressure reverse osmosis. <br>
APM will be good at making optimal fractal shape filters with optimal size and shape pores <br>
while providing more than enough mechanical stability to deal with high pressure. <br>

More advanced even: Binding the salt ions and releasing them in a controlled <br>
highly energetically reversible fashion using [[electromechanochemistry]]. <br>

Since this is water centric technology integration of <br>
non-diamondoid foladamer based nanotechnologies (eventually beyond natures proteins) <br>
into a gem-based matrix may yield the highest efficiencies. <br>

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[[APM]] will allow to improve on these individually and <br>
combine the best of these in fancy ways. <br>

== Energy for desalination ==

Covered elsewhere on this wiki. <br>
[[Gem based APM]] will improve upon and open up many non-fossile options. <br>
See: [[Energy harvesting]]

== Transport ==

Basically underdroiund piplines or more fancy "water tubemeail" where <br>
water is packaged to reduce the already low flow friction even further. <br>
Transport could easily reach far inland all the way to the centers of continents. <br>
Transport meshes could grow dense decentralized or even distributed and with that <br>
* extremely high capacity <b>Rivalling (and even exceeding) the amount of water evaporated and in-air-transported by natural weather systems
* highly damage resilient to natural catastrophes and intentional malicious attack.

[[Gem based APM]] will largely improve on <br>
[[Underground working]] and [[Underground transport and habitation]]. <br>
Making building and maintaining the infrastructure for <br>
safe resilient large capacity underground long range transport possible. <br>

Pipeline and or "water tubemail" transport caold happen in parallel / bundeled with / alongside:
* The [[global microcomponent redistribution network]]
* The [[lithospheric mesh]] and other [[geoengineering mesh]]es

== Tackling causes of water scarcity rather than the symptoms ==

See: [[Climate crisis]] & [[Carbon sequestration]]
Also: [[Large scale carbon sequestration in deep sand dunes]] – double related via desert irrigation

== Related ==

* [[Lithospheric mesh]]
* [[Global microcomponent redistribution network]]
* [[Moissanite]]