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If we can do it for oil, why not water?
by jzawodn 5y ago
If we can do it for oil, why not water?
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoThat's how NYC gets its water.
- xyzzyz 5y agoYes, and their most recent water pipeline costs $6B and is going to take 50+ years to build. Not exactly practical for any place that’s not NYC.
- bluGill 5y agoGiven the way transport costs so much, I'd expect other English speaking countries could do it in 20 years for $4B, non-English speaking in 10 for $2.5B, down to Spain in 3 years for $.8B.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThey get it from places that are an hour's drive away, not from an entirely different watershed.
- xyzzyz 5y agoBecause oil is 3+ orders of magnitude more valuable than water, and we use 4 orders of magnitude more water than oil.