How long will it take to refill Lake Mead?

If we can transport oil by pipeline across our country every day...it is incredible that we do not transport water from places where there is too much to places where there is not enough...b pipeline also.

Let's get this done!
 
Frank Apisa said:
If we can transport oil by pipeline across our country every day...it is incredible that we do not transport water from places where there is too much to places where there is not enough...b pipeline also.

Let's get this done!
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Absolutely as there is so much flooding in America to which that overflow would bode well in other areas.
 
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Saw this answer in Quora, does anybody sensible know any more about the practicalities of such a scheme piping water from the Columbia River?

It would not need to be a 1000 mile pipeline, about 350 miles would do it. Roughly following Interstate 5. It still needs to be pumped over the Siskiyou mountains, though. The inlet would need to be below the Bonneville Dam, as the water is needed upstream to generate electric power. So going down the east side, following Highway 97, would not work.

The pipeline does not need to go all the way to Los Angeles. It can end at Lake Siskiyou near the city of Mt Shasta. From there, the water would flow down the Sacramento River to the Delta, where the existing California Water Project would take over.

https://www.quora.com/Why-couldnt-a...iver-to-Southern-California?top_ans=177978878
 
Frank Apisa said:
If we can transport oil by pipeline across our country every day...it is incredible that we do not transport water from places where there is too much to places where there is not enough...b pipeline also.

Let's get this done!
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you can't afford the electricity you need to pump water that high........you need it all for your cars.......
 
Primavera said:
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Saw this answer in Quora, does anybody sensible know any more about the practicalities of such a scheme piping water from the Columbia River?

It would not need to be a 1000 mile pipeline, about 350 miles would do it. Roughly following Interstate 5. It still needs to be pumped over the Siskiyou mountains, though. The inlet would need to be below the Bonneville Dam, as the water is needed upstream to generate electric power. So going down the east side, following Highway 97, would not work.

The pipeline does not need to go all the way to Los Angeles. It can end at Lake Siskiyou near the city of Mt Shasta. From there, the water would flow down the Sacramento River to the Delta, where the existing California Water Project would take over.

https://www.quora.com/Why-couldnt-a...iver-to-Southern-California?top_ans=177978878
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Frank Apisa said:
If we can transport oil by pipeline across our country every day...it is incredible that we do not transport water from places where there is too much to places where there is not enough...b pipeline also.

Let's get this done!
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The elevation of Lake Powell is 3,652 feet..... The Mississippi cannot be too much above sea level. 100-200-300 ft? Depending on what part of the Mississippi River.

So pumping Mississippi water to Lake Powell would burn up lots of fossil fuels.


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as noted, we dont have the power to pumpo all that water up hill. and there is the problem of mixing flora and fauna from different ecosystems.
and there is the cost which would be enormous.
is there no water west of the rockies to draw from ? could use an aquaduct if its all downhill. cheaper, easier and less potential failure than in a highly pressurized pipeline. bound to be some water in NoCal for use in SoCal. Or just make a bucket brigade to pass buckets of water using illegals. Cali has plenty and Slow JOe is adding more every second.
 
Celticguy said:
as noted, we dont have the power to pumpo all that water up hill. and there is the problem of mixing flora and fauna from different ecosystems.
and there is the cost which would be enormous.
is there no water west of the rockies to draw from ? could use an aquaduct if its all downhill. cheaper, easier and less potential failure than in a highly pressurized pipeline. bound to be some water in NoCal for use in SoCal. Or just make a bucket brigade to pass buckets of water using illegals. Cali has plenty and Slow JOe is adding more every second.
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See post 8!!

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/s...ake-to-refill-Lake-Mead&p=5231064#post5231064
 
ExpressLane said:
People should just move out of California and not steal other people's water.
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Over a third of the country's vegetables and two-thirds of the country's fruits and nuts are grown in California. Of course California has a rich variety of human fruits and nuts as well, they wouldn't be missed.
 
volsrock said:
It could interfere with migration of rodents, kill worms, disrupt indigenous plants...
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Do you have any scientific proof to back that claim up or is it just more of that trolling fact free and unsubstantiated hearsay? Check with the real experts instead of depending on your type of Internet chatter. Also, rodents and other parasites would not have the ability to be transported through possible water and filtrated pipelines.

Yet there are obvious naysayers who haven't even completely studied the feasibility and possible benefits of relieving areas of the East and South of the affects of devastating floods generated by hurricanes and other types of extreme weather conditions, and in addition to the concept of desalination or reverse osmosis. So the only option is to do nothing and let everything dry up and rot or at least consider taking a effort to mitigate the drought situation, mainly as a result of over population and its drain on natural water supplies. After all, what is there to loose at doing so?

Theoretically relieving areas that are inundated with too much water due to flooding as a result of diverting that overflow elsewhere, could have a positive effect on the economies of those areas as result of avoiding the terrible cost of rebuilding and recovery, etc. Actually, I bet if oil was in the equation, there would be pipeline blueprints drawn up so fast, would be amazing as a result of the greedy lust for oil and the money it generates. If building billion dollar resorts is no problem and the need to maintain those billion dollar resorts, maintaining agriculture and other life sustaining essentials that filtrated and maintained water offers, there should be an incentive to the point of negotiating into agreement of purchasing and funding the ability to supply drought stricken areas with water from water plentiful areas that could profit on the assumption and the relief.

Can you solve drought by piping water across the country?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/21/climate/rain-drought-pipeline.html
 
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