Dam! Just Dam!! ;-}
Talk about opportunities and industries lost for want of a few dams.. snowpacks will be hugh.. and then it all goes to sea..
Here in the Los Angeles area we have one of the best water redirection systems in the world. And as you have stated, it will all flow into the ocean. I can see some reason behind the comments about chemicals and such, but after the first day, good heavens, catch the clean water.
It boggles the mind how much we carp about water, we blow on L. A. River restoration, and avoid spending on collection.
I’ll bet we have millions if not tens of millions of acre feet of water flowing into the ocean daily right now.