> It's time for a national water grid I mean you have massive, massive mountains that preclude you from doing that fast or in an energy efficient way. Its far

> It's time for a national water grid I mean you have massive, massive mountains that preclude you from doing that fast or in an energy efficient way. Its far, far simpler and cheaper and effective to increase dwell time of rain water. What do I mean by this? Every year lots of money is spent in and around california to maintain storm drains and infra. They spend billions trying to get excess water from the hills to the sea in a faster way as possible. However this means that the water isn't soaking into the land, which means its not there in summer to evaporate and provide clouds, which rain and drive weather cycles. Basically its drought causing. By selectively blocking drainage systems, and forcing localised flooding (ie flood planes) not only do you get less damaging flash floods (the water takes a lot longer to get from a to b) a shit tonne more water drains into the soil. This means that more plants grow, which means less sun hitting the floor, which means lower temperatures, etc etc, etc Whats more its fucking cheap. > It is easier to move water than to move farmland with all of its associated supply chains and infrastructure. I mean that's patently not the case. If it was cheap to move water then we'd see loads of many thousand mile irrigation canals and pipes. We only really see it for high value crops. There was a plan to create a nationwide canal "backbone" for the UK (a canal can be used for moving water as well) But as it would cost ~10% of GDP to build it wasn't practical.