Nah throw in another irrigation demand on the Southwest.
Of course, they say it is a renewable source so that makes it ok.
Whatever happened to synthetic rubber? Oh wait, probably made with natural gas which ain’t renewable.
for the big bold water stuff like they did in the first half of the 20th century—imho the best investment is in R%D to collapse the cost of water desalination.
Make water desalination cheap enough and envirnonmentally friendly to California’s liking—and suddenly California won’t need the water from the colorado. That water will be too expensive.
Make the desalinated sea water still cheaper and what the hey—they can pipe the desalinated seawater east or north to arizona.(though east is probably safer.)
Think that sounds far fetched. For R&D we’re talking about something less than 10 billion—maybe only a billion. Heck, Elon Musk may be doing the work right now—because he’ll need a desalination plant for his mars mission.
Compare that with the cost of diverting Mississippi water into the colorado basin. Now that’s a lot of money. But I see that proposal being floated in the news fairly frequently.