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One thing you could do is desalinate water in Los Angeles, and thus keep the water in the central valley rather than pumping it over the grapevine. I'm pretty
by IvyMike 5y ago
One thing you could do is desalinate water in Los Angeles, and thus keep the water in the central valley rather than pumping it over the grapevine. I'm pretty sure agricultural use of water in CA dwarves urban use, so maybe it wouldn't make that much of a difference. (Maybe someone can find actual numbers, sorry I can't right now.)
- apcragg 5y agoI bet this is the first use of large scale desalination. It already takes huge amounts of power to pump the water over the mountains to L.A. so reducing that load could make the desalination power requirements more palatable.