Death Valley is 5270 square miles and average depth of almost 300 feet. Relatively speaking it would be easy to run a pipeline from the coast and siphon seawater into the valley. So on behalf of my fellow Californians, if my math is right, we’re willing to take 1.5 million acre feet of the excess. As another poster stated, let’s see the northern Sahara basin do its part. Between us we’ve got this covered. Evaporation and increased rainfall will distribute the water
No worries. Bill Gates and Elon Musk will soon propose a joint venture to build a mega-drill to punch 12-mile-deep holes into the ocean floors, so the water will safely seep into the earth’s mantle. [/S]
good point... i would love to see a pipeline from the mississippi flood region to the drought stricken west... would enviros protest that?
The only problem is that there are two 14,000 foot mountain ranges between the ocean and Bad Water in Death Valley.