Apparently we have wasted over $100B on high speed rail to nowhere. How about we transfer some of the future funding for that boondoggle to building a pipeline from the Mississippi River over the Rockies to deliver water to the Colorado River dam system during flood times. Plenty of storage capacity in the Powell and Lake Mead areas and …
Apparently we have wasted over $100B on high speed rail to nowhere. How about we transfer some of the future funding for that boondoggle to building a pipeline from the Mississippi River over the Rockies to deliver water to the Colorado River dam system during flood times. Plenty of storage capacity in the Powell and Lake Mead areas and flood abatement for the Mississippi. Win-Win.
Projects like that (redirecting river water) are super expensive. The Soviets had a plan to redirect water from the Ob river system that runs into the Arctic Ocean and refill the Aral Sea, which was drained dry by agriculture, primarily. The estimated cost was astronomical and as a result it never happened. I'm all for a cool project that moves water from point A to point B, but i'd have to see a plan that made sense and didn't cause other problems over the longer term.
I didn’t say it would be cheap, but Discover Magazine ran a story about it some years ago. Also consider the savings from the ability to divert flood water from the Mississippi River region in years with heavy rain or suddenly warm springs that cause dangerous snow melts. I too would need to see a plan.
Apparently we have wasted over $100B on high speed rail to nowhere. How about we transfer some of the future funding for that boondoggle to building a pipeline from the Mississippi River over the Rockies to deliver water to the Colorado River dam system during flood times. Plenty of storage capacity in the Powell and Lake Mead areas and flood abatement for the Mississippi. Win-Win.
And yes, desalination where feasible.
Projects like that (redirecting river water) are super expensive. The Soviets had a plan to redirect water from the Ob river system that runs into the Arctic Ocean and refill the Aral Sea, which was drained dry by agriculture, primarily. The estimated cost was astronomical and as a result it never happened. I'm all for a cool project that moves water from point A to point B, but i'd have to see a plan that made sense and didn't cause other problems over the longer term.
I didn’t say it would be cheap, but Discover Magazine ran a story about it some years ago. Also consider the savings from the ability to divert flood water from the Mississippi River region in years with heavy rain or suddenly warm springs that cause dangerous snow melts. I too would need to see a plan.
The State Water Project in CA delivers almost 2.5 million acre feet of water
https://mavensnotebook.com/2017/07/12/california-water-commission-a-primer-on-state-water-project-operations/
More or less by following terrain. Crossing mountain ranges is the part that gets expensive.