Timeline – The Great Retrofit world

1st batch of questions:

  • Why is the desalination plant not on the island?
  • Who owns this desalination plant and how is it organized and regulated and where does it draw energy from?
  • Is it a human water emergency or agricultural water?
  • Is the desalinized water what is going into the reservoir or is if going somewhere else?
  • How are the people responding to the presence of these reservoirs? Any cultural aspect to them? Are there disagreements over them?
  • How did this leapfrog economic come about?
  • Do the cultural centers camouflage the activity?
  • What about relations between Messina and the rest of Sicily?
  • Who are the reservoirs being kept secrete and why?
  • What is it like to live in Messina in the day to day life? How different from now?
  • Where do the refugees come from?
  • Hierarchy of water usage?
  • Who died from the drought?