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The Desalination Bubble (or: When the Pipes Run Dry)
For decades, the Anglo property desalination plants—New Zealand, Australia, the US—pumped out ever-saltier home prices, turning sandcastles into gold mines.
The formula was simple: cheap debt + scarcity panic = This shack is now a million-dollar starter home. Shanty town ? What’s that ? Off grid tiny home communities ?
But the debt (cash) feedstock just hit peak brine. The pumps are still running, but the output?
Stagnant. Murky.
The “market” is constraining flow and finally realizing that you can’t distill wealth from thin air.. forever...
The party’s over like the silver !
The hangover’s called affordability.
Meanwhile, over in Bulgaria, the pipes are suddenly gleaming. Why?
Because the EU monetary union just rolled up with surgical tools to do dead giant surgery like Oak Flats —Apache Stronghold!
"Under New Management"
That’s what the sign reads lol
A promise to plug the plant into a bigger grid. Investors are lining up, squinting at the blueprints, whispering: “Future EU water pressure? That’s gotta be worth… something."
The old local taps—leaky, rusty, but your taps are being recalibrated for Euro-scale flow!!!
The bet isn’t on what the property is, but what it might become once the Brussels-backed plumbing kicks into full gear ..
Moral of the story:
Your plants? Are they running on fumes and nostalgia? Surviving ? God help us, God save us from being angry and God please please please remove our fears, please!
Their plants? Thriving! God bless em and their property | rekationships, etc.
Speculation’s the new freshwater even if hauling buckets instead of building pipelines is the path to enlightenment…