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What's the prospect for building large pipelines from places with abundant water? It would be extremely costly up front but infrastructure like that can last ov
by api 5y ago
What's the prospect for building large pipelines from places with abundant water? It would be extremely costly up front but infrastructure like that can last over a century fairly easily.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoI wonder about that too but is it even possible to do such a thing on the scale that’s needed? Also, are there places that have enough water to supply the West or would they dry out too?
- gremlinsinc 5y agoWhat if we created inland seas? Pipe salt water inland into reservoirs... the water evaporates, and then catch the rainfall which maybe is filtered of the salt?
- withinboredom 5y agoAfghanistan did it thousands of years ago. Some of them still work. They are called a Karez IIRC.
- coryrc 5y agoWhere's this place with excess fresh water on the level of what California wastes growing alfalfa in the desert?
- api 5y agoNorthern Canada?