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That sounds reasonable. The water would have to go somewhere, but that alone could be catastrophic regionally. Cities are built around water sources, so having
by abracadaniel 3y ago
That sounds reasonable. The water would have to go somewhere, but that alone could be catastrophic regionally. Cities are built around water sources, so having them move on timescales of human lifespans is worth worrying about.
- goatlover 3y agoTrue, but we're rather capable of building long pipelines to ship liquids across large distances.
- MattGaiser 3y agoIt would require a lot of expansion for the required volume. A barrel of oil has about 159 litres in it. The Keystone Pipeline would have transported 1.1 million barrels if it were fully expanded. 174,900,000 million litres per day. The City of Phoenix by itself uses about 1 billion litres per day.
- adhesive_wombat 3y agoI was going to say "but that probably double-counts recycled water" and then I looked it up and recycled water is only 8% of Phoenix's water usage, and it's 10% nationally in the US.
- _3u10 3y agoWater isn’t toxic though, aqueducts aren’t built to anywhere near the standards of oil pipelines.
- q1w2 3y agoMost people live by the ocean or on major lakes and rivers. This data doesn't show any of that changing.