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> Provide Access to Clean Water

??? We don't need any AI for this.

Start with separated sewage/wastewater and stormwater drains. Then accredited and highly scrutinised wastewater treatment and discharge into water bodies (or see below for a high-tech solution). As for clean water to the home, direct those stormwater drains to new reservoirs which sustain freshwater aquatic life. Protect aquifers from over-drainage, and build pipelines from water-abundant regions to water-scarce regions.

To reclaim waste water or treat unknown water sources back to potable/semiconductor standards we have ultrafiltration, reverse osmosis, UV treatment, pH adjustment, fluoridation, desalination, softening (which is generally obviated by RO...). This is basically Singapore's NEWater.

Good sanitation is a financial and political problem. The engineering has been solved for decades now.



> Good sanitation is a financial and political problem. The engineering has been solved for decades now.

This was true of computers, phones, books, washing machines, refrigerators, A/C...most technologies.

Turns out that doing the addition engineering to figure out how to do these things cheaply makes the political and financial problems way easier.


Suburban sprawl needs to go as it is a complete waste of infrastructure


You just want all your little worker bees to be in massive towers like Hong Kong, without a chance to even grow their own vegetables or have any private space?


I'm not sure if you realize this, but there are a lot of housing options in between suburban sprawl and high-rise apartment buldings. Like townhomes, rowhouses, duplexes, low-rise apartments, or even single family homes built more closely together.


Should everyone have a hydroponics room? Even a basic amount of veggies generally require more land than townhomes, rowhouses, duplexes, low-rise apartments can provide.


Sure you do, go full EA:

Build a better surveillance ads system, and use (some of) that cash to pay for water projects.


Agree. Same for better medicines. We could get pretty far just by getting existing medicines that work to people who need them.




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