In a recent X space live session, Grant Cardone stated that he plans to invest $2.6 billion into mobile home parks. Mobile home parks are growing in popularity for a multitude of reasons — and investing in this space has a lot of potential. Today, there are around 43,000 mobile home parks in the U.S., home to 22 million residents. That’s a little more than 6 percent of the nation’s entire housing stock. But there’s one problem — many of these mobile home parks are facing sanitation issues that could get them shut down. Most of these have septic tanks or lagoons… Yes, those green ponds by the side of the road are exactly what you’re thinking. These can leak into the groundwater and create bacterial and viral contamination… Not good! Mobile Home Parks Can’t Keep Up What’s being done about this? State environmental agencies are requiring MHPs to upgrade or…
We’re constantly hearing news of droughts, water crises, and skyrocketing water rates. We often hear that we should just “take shorter showers.” But did you know that residential users are only 10% of the demand? That’s not going to move the needle. What’s going to move the needle is what we do with industry and agriculture, who account for 9/10ths of freshwater demand in the US — and similar goes for water usage across the world. The ratio between business and agriculture varies. In countries like Somalia, it’s almost all agriculture. In the US it’s about half and half. But the same thing rings true across the world: the big users are not the residential users. Cities Are Being Abandoned Jackson Mississippi was losing an estimated 65% of its water, and the system almost collapsed in 2022. At the time, I asked a friend of mine, a state representative in Jackson, what was…
“Water bubbles up in streets, pooling in neighborhoods for weeks or months. Homes burn to the ground if firefighters can’t draw enough water from hydrants. Utility crews struggle to fix broken pipes while water flows through shut-off valves that don’t work.” That was the opening line of recent article by AP News. It sounds almost apocalyptic — except it’s happening in 2024, right in the US city of Prichard, Alabama.
Let me welcome you to the world of decentralized water and water independence for all. You may be thinking — what does that mean? Don’t the cities take care of our water?
