Well, start building your water pipeline. Either way, it would take years to drill enough wells to offset our imports. Natural gas is a whole other story. It will be abundant for another century, if not longer.
Really don’t need water pipelines here. It’s trucked for the distance from the water utilizes to the site. That’s a good paying job.
Sites move often, pipelines don’t.
And with our dams, rivers and lakes we have MORE than adequate water.
And today’s horizontal drilling techniques give the ability to work the equivalent of a dozen single vertical pipe of old.