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Originally Posted by IROC
I brought this up in another thread, but one solution I have seen floated (pun not intended) is for the creation of a national water grid. Basically a system of pipelines to move water around. It sounds technically daunting, but evidently it's not. And...the cost would not be prohibitive. The problem is primarily political.
The west is drying out and the east is getting more wet. They just raised our local "average rainfall" by 4" per year as it has been increasingly more and more wet here. The last few years, we have ended the calendar year sometimes 10+ inches of rain above normal. 60+ inches of rain per year is not uncommon here anymore. In 2020, our official total was 70.36". You guys out west are welcome to some of this.  |
This is absolutely the solution and they had better do it fast. I did not know that anyone is seriously discussing it but I have been talking random people for years that we need a pipeline from places that flood and get too much rain to the places that are too dry. Population trends for decades have been shifting to the desert Southwest of the U.S., (Vegas, Phoenix, etc.), and lack of water will be the number one problem.
My idea was for some huge pipelines and huge reservoirs on both ends. If done right, it could solve two problems at once and be a huge infrastructure project as well, creating a bunch of good paying jobs. It could prevent floods in places like Texas and Louisiana if they had a reservoir system with automatic release valves that opened when the water reached a certain level and dumped it into the pipeline system, (which admittedly would have to be huge), sending all of the excess water into the reservoirs in AZ., NV. and CA. Even if it could not completely end flooding, it would make it less severe and drain the flooded areas quicker. The desert SW would get billions of gallons of fresh water.