Posted on 05/10/2015 7:07:34 PM PDT by knarf
Hmmmm ... hundreds of thousands of immediate jobs, very little expense ... no environmental impact ... California gets water
“There were one heck of a lot fewer people then that there are now.”
In 100 AD Rome and it’s suburbs had a population of over 1.5 million.
Those ancient Roman aqueducts provided huge amounts of water.
Does government subsidize or otherwise regulate what you pay at the tap or is the price of your (non divinely delivered) water a free market price? Which is significantly different than a 'free price' when your applicable unit is acre-feet. With sufficient subsidies some of your less morally tough neighbors might be tempted to take up rice farming.
Here in Iowa, with a similar climate we have enough water for a wide, but not infinitely wide, range of activities. We still have times when some folks complain about too much or too little of the stuff. You can't make everyone happy all of the time. My community actually has a privately operated water company. The most common pricing complaints I hear are oddly related to the cost of too much water. Flood abatement is expensive in money and in restricted choices. Government wants more of it than the the public seems to want. Although the public might want it more if there were free market pricing of flood insurance and no media inflated expectations of salvation by FEMA.
what water would this be and from where to where. I don’t know of any loose free extra water laying around to move.
Take all that money and ditch that useless railroad in Calif. from nowhere to nowhere and put in desalination plants.
Desalination plants won’t remove the radioactive crap spewing into the ocean from Fukushima. Used to be the answer. Hasn’t been since Japan killed the Pacific.
Why in the 70s did F-ing Jerry Brown give away our water rights to two other states? That is why we are where we are at now.
I think environmentalists would be delighted. These could also function as waterways — think of barges taking goods at low prices with low energy uses for transportation
A little Internet research indicates that the Roman aqueduct serving Lyon, France was of this type: Aqueduct of the Gier
“No environmental impact”?????
You want to drill holes in Mother Gaia and think there won’t be any environmental impact?????
On alternating current, they emit light for half of the cycle and absorb dark during the other half of the cycle.
So, where abouts are you going to have that water get “siphoned” that’s lower than sea level and has no more than 30’ of lift over anything to get to it?
“Does government subsidize or otherwise regulate what you pay at the tap...?”
We have 2 wells. Our cost is for electricity to pump it, salt for the water softener, and maintenance costs. No subsidies. Our wells are down about 60 feet. We have better water down about 300 feet, and one of these days we want to drill down to that aquifer.
I understand the similarities climate-wise of Iowa and Ohio. I am an Iowa native. We do not see much in the way of agricultural irrigation here in Ohio. Flood abatement is probably less a problem here. We ourselves are on high ground. We see a lot less concern about flooding on a general scale here than I knew growing up in Iowa many years ago.
“Floods are an awfully hit or miss source of water to rely on.”
Desert civilizations have built cisterns for thousands of years. But California builds super fast trains that will be limited to about 50mph for technical reasons and they don’t go anywhere people want to go. California needs to die so we can start over.
One brainstorm was to pipe the Missouri river to all points west.
It’s not just the lakes. It’s the waterways, Mississippi, Ohio, Columbia basins too. Those waterways are still important for commerce. Destroying the ecosystems in the Midwest so that California can keep growing lettuce in the desert doesn’t make sense to me, either. Grow more lettuce and melons in the south.
Tapping the Great Lakes would require both Canada and the US to disavow a dozen pledges never to do this.
That's it Texan, we're shutting off the Rio Grande and keeping the water for ourselves. ;)
——and the Mississippi can be tapped,——
no, it can’t
It is up hill for more than a thousand miles to the continental divide. There are mountains. The water won’t flow up hill
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