leaking pen <itsat...@gmail.com> wrote: Yes, but iirc, they are on the shipping path to a few areas that aren't . . > . >
"Aren't" what? You mean places that do not have fresh water? You cannot ship water with an ordinary containership. You need a tanker. Water is so cheap it would make no economic sense to transport it by any ship or vehicle. The only way to move it is by pipeline. The average cost of water in the U.S. is $1.50 per thousand gallons ($0.0015). It costs roughly $0.03 per gallon to ship oil by tanker. That's 20 times greater. You could desalinate water on the west coast a lot cheaper than you could ship water anywhere. Most containerships coming from Asia do not stop at Hawaii. They would never go out of their way to stop there for water! - Jed
