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which would likely be more than all the Colorado river water is going for now? see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40881819 https://news.ycombinator.com/it
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which would likely be more than all the Colorado river water is going for now? see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40881819 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40881819
EDIT: redoing that calculation for 15'000'000 acre-feet/yr (7,5 upper + 7,5 lower) yields only 3,75 billion USD/yr.
EDIT2: also neglected: that only one of the seven states in the compact has easy access to salinated water.
- gcanyon 2y agoThat may be, but the fact remains that the Colorado is over-allocated by some ridiculous amount, and the states and Mexico are arguing over it. Some non-zero amount is spent making e.g. Las Vegas and Phoenix more water-efficient to help alleviate the issue.