[JD_UTDallas]

I hope thats sarcasm,desal won’t change sea level water is not lost it gets used flushed and ends up back in a river flowing into the oceans or put on grass evaporates and rains back down into as river headed for the oceans. Even uses to grow crops those get eaten turned into CO2 amd water by respiration and pissed out as urine to yet again eventually make its way back to the ocean. All water on earth jas beem through the biological cycle at least eight times and back to the ocean. That means every glass of water people drink has been through at least eight other animals om average over geological time.

[Paul R.]

I’m not sure how transpiration + evaporation from worst case irrigation situations compares to ocean evaporation? Given that under some circumstances water vapor builds up as ice at the poles, MAYBE irrigation could add to long term ice buildup at the poles at the expense of the oceans. But, there’s no indication such circumstances are in play now.

Pulling large amounts of salty groundwater out for desalinization may have unintended side effects, though probably less so than pulling out too much fresh ground water.

Your posts remind us that the real problem is not a water shortage - it’s just where the water is or is not that is problematic. The Mississippi River south of it’s confluence with the Ohio River passes some 240 million acre-feet of water (and a little debris) annually.

https://coyotegulch.blog/2011/05/19/pipeline-from-the-mississippi-river-to-colorado/#:~:text=The%20Mississippi%20River%20passes%20more,are%20flowing%20at%20that%20spot%E2%80%A6

[BiteYourSelf]

So,we’re drinking dinosaur and mammoth p!as.🤔