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Sorry, but most of it will just go out to sea because the libtards in this state haven't built any water capture/storage infrastructure since the 80s or so.
Sorry, but most of it will just go out to sea because the libtards in this state haven't built any water capture/storage infrastructure since the 80s or so.
those downstream of the Colorado River
2000s people I knew and local media in the gay area promoted, "Knocking down the Hetch Hetchy" reservoir. Fucking morons.
Have the LibbyFucks declared groundwater clay an endangered species, now?
Read up on the Ogallala Aquifer when time permits.
We are in deep shit but most of the population is too consumed with stupid bullshit that requires little to no thought to care or even pay attention.
We are in deep shit but most of the population is too consumed with stupid bullshit that requires little to no thought to care or even pay attention.
No we can't make all the water we need. The public will not be willing to pay for it.
Then there is the small problem of running a DeSal plant on the Great Plains or figuring out some other cost effective method to get the water up there and no a pipeline won't work unless there is a pump station and power plant every few hundred miles or so.
DeSal does not nothing to replenish the ground water tables of which everyone and everything want to use including the fracking industry which is supposed to keep us energy independent - (it isn't, but that is for another thread)
Dude - I'm in the industry. I know a couple things about this topic.
Water is one of the lowest priced commodities around. I pay less than $3/day for basically unlimited clean water (and sewage treatment) in SoCal including watering my yard 3-4 times a week. We could double the cost and I would still be getting a deal.
Not talking just SoCal here which seem to be the focus of the DeSal argument.
Pumping stations every couple hundred miles, or less, along with a power plant to run the pumps. It is not cost effective - it isn't even realistic.
California can pretty much grow the nation's (and much of the world's) food in the central valley as long as we have water. Most parts of the world struggle to have 1 good growing season. California can have 3 growing seasons in a good year if water is available.
It's not that hard. They just build a big pipeline from the coastal plant to tie into the EXISTING water distribution system. All of the pumps, pipes and canals are already there, built years ago. My company did some instrumentation work on the desal plant in Carlsbad, CA and the connecting pipe was just 10 miles long.
We are already injecting treated wastewater into the ground to replenish aquifers and to prevent sea-water intrusion along the coasts.
Yes - it is that hard. What size is the pipe to be built ? What about the pumps needed to push that water into the existing infrastructure - are they in place ?
more sensible than thinking we can change society so we can change the weather.
More rain on the way this weekend. And next week as well.
I just don’t know how we will survive these drought conditions!
I’m doing my part though. I haven’t turned on my sprinklers in almost three months now!
No - it's really not that hard. The pipe is only 54" in diameter and they installed it in about a year. It doesn't take that much pump energy as they can utilize gravity to push alot of the water to the existing water infrastructure.
The desalination project is nothing compared to the massive water works projects California built 100 years ago which are still in use today. Most of Southern California would be absolutely uninhabitable if we didn't redirect and transport water from Northern California through massive canals, dams, tunnels, pipes and pump stations.
Man made the desert bloom in California. Just like they did in Israel.
Humanity has no choice but to engineer solutions for our water supply and other environmental problems. It's absolutely doable and more sensible than thinking we can change society so we can change the weather.
I know this will never get read by 99% of the people following this thread however should one wish to actually learn something - try reading it.....
Cadillac Desert is a stunning expose and a dramatic, intriguing history of the creation of an Eden--an Eden that may only be a mirage.
"Disappearing Water"? Sounds interesting. Can you also recomment a book on "Peak Oil", while we are at it?
might learn something along the way other than posting stupid comments.
Read the book - study physics - it's much much harder than it looks - much.
Speaking of stupid, hey Kaki, seems like you have a lot of time on your hands in retirement.
Enjoying going through "disliking" every one of my posts? Nice job! Feel better?
read the book 25 years ago while getting my degree. PBS did a good documentary on it too. It's not quite the indictment you think it is.
I've been doing this business for 25+ years in SoCal. Trust me, the cost of generating desal water is not the huge cost driver in the scheme of things. It is all the existing water distribution system assets (pipes, canals, dams, pumps) let alone pensions and trains to nowhere that take up the most money.
Dude - I'm in the industry. I know a couple things about this topic.
It is not really needed east of the Rockies since they aren't under constant drought pressure.
Can anyone really question the tight correlation btwn population growth and energy demand?
We can desalinate all of the water we need. Sure it costs money and creates icky carbon emissions - but we already have the means to create all of the water we need. And desalination technology is getting better and better and will require less energy in the future.
"Disappearing Water"? Sounds interesting. Can you also recomment a book on "Peak Oil", while we are at it?
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300 inches is 25 feet.