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all right let's do some math for the
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decanter of endless water and let's see
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how far we can really stretch this thing
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so the decanter of endless water
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produces 30 gallons of water at most per
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action used to activate the decanter if
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we assume that a rotating staff of
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people can continuously activate the
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decanter of endless water every round
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for an entire day that's 10 rounds per
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minute 60 minutes per hour 24 hours per
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432,000 gallons of water per day now
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that is a lot um the estimated water
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needs for people living in a desert are
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going to vary a bit depending on
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specific conditions we know that they
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need to consume about 2 gallons of water
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per day part of that comes from food
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part of that will be just drinking it so
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let's say two gallons of water per day
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just for that if we then add some water
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for things like cooking bathing
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let's make a r rough estimate and say 5
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gallons per day per person now that
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86,400 people that would have enough
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water from a single decanter that is
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huge by medieval standards but our water
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needs don't stop there because you can't
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live on just water you need food and
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deserts famously aren't a great place to
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forge for food so you're going to have
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to do Agriculture and you know animal
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husbandry that takes more water so we
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432,000 gallons of water per day it
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requires about 380,000 gallons of water
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per year to irrigate a single acre of
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land so that's 88% of your water output
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per day so let's say uh we can irrigate
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365 acres of land that's quite a bit of
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land now um the estimates on how many
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people that can feed are going to vary
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depending on crop type methods uh
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fertilization things like that I've seen
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estimates as low as like 3 acres to a
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person and as high as 16 people to an
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acre so if we say uh maybe we've got
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good fertilization and we've got uh
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magical assistance so let's say eight
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people per acre 365 Acres so we can feed
