Posted on 02/15/2015 6:01:19 PM PST by artichokegrower
California water agencies are on track to satisfy a state mandate to reduce water consumption 20 percent by 2020. But according to their own projections, that savings won’t be enough to keep up with population growth just a decade later.
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You don’t see it growing? What about continuing mass illegal and legal immigration? Yeah, plenty will flee the state but Hispanic and Asian immigrant flows aren’t going down unless restrictive immigration reform is passed, and there is no chance for that anytime soon.
27% less power.
Why don’t they just build a pipeline from the Mississippi River to Lake Powell. They actucally could reverse the flow of the Missouri River from St. Louis to Kansas City and then run a pipeline from there.
After looking as some of the logistics, probably have to run the pipeline from St. Loius to Maob Utah, 1200 miles. From there it would feed into the Lake Powell watershed.
The other option would be to build a pipepline right down the center of Interstate 40 from St. Louis right to Los Angeles. That would be about 1,800 miles. Their would be no land aquisition costs and no eminent domain issues.
We should do that regardless. Cali better get desalinization going or people will probably die if the damn drought keeps up.
Cut welfare and lots of folks will move away.
That’s racist.
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