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Couldn't you just bring in a few oil / gas pipes (or whatever you happen to have) and siphon it in a more controlled manner? The country doesn't seem to have a

Couldn't you just bring in a few oil / gas pipes (or whatever you happen to have) and siphon it in a more controlled manner? The country doesn't seem to have a problem in creating oil and gas piping networks quickly... 40 million cubic meters in 24 hours means just 15 2m diameter pipes running at 10 m/s. I would imagine the same amount of water flowing over a longer period time would cause less erosion even if the pipes wouldn't reach all the way down... Edit: You could even do it with 6000 20 cm diameter pipes, probably plastic would do.

giardini 10y ago
Gravityloss says> "Couldn't you just bring in a few oil / gas pipes (or whatever you happen to have) and siphon it in a more controlled manner? The country doesn't seem to have a problem in creating oil and gas piping networks quickly..." Good idea, but this is happening in CA, where pipelines don't sprout so quickly.
etrautmann 10y ago
I think the issue is the speed with which you'd have to implement a solution. It does seem easy, but maybe not to coordinate that construction to happen in less than 12 hours.