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That sounds like an absolutely massive infrastructure investment. How much would it cost to move water for tens of millions of people thousands of miles? Grow
by dmoy 10y ago
That sounds like an absolutely massive infrastructure investment. How much would it cost to move water for tens of millions of people thousands of miles?
Growing up in one of the wetter areas, we can't even figure out how to deal with a spring thaw bringing so much water that it floods and destroys towns. What you're proposing sounds even harder.
- iofj 10y agoWe can, we're just unwilling to. Moving populations is a political problem, not a physical one. Correctly damming with proper overflow regions is a well-understood problem, and a few countries have dealt with it effectively. Most have simply refused to make the necessary investments.