How long will it take to refill Lake Mead?

[gemini104104]

Lake Mead has a somewhat larger shortage, about 8 trillion gallons, but it could be filled in about 370 days at 250,000 gallons/sec. Within a year and eight months of the aqueduct's finish, both reservoirs would be filled and most of the Southwest's water problems would be gone." https://www.desertsun.com/story/opin...ct/7751467001/

[Frank Apisa]

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!

[gemini104104]

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!

Absolutely as there is so much flooding in America to which that overflow would bode well in other areas.

[PostmodernProphet]

if LA keeps taking water out of it, forever......

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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-..._ans=177978878

[PostmodernProphet]

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!

you can't afford the electricity you need to pump water that high........you need it all for your cars.......

[Text Drivers are Killers]

Remove the illegal aliens and mead will be full within a year.

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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-..._ans=177978878

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[volsrock]

Lake Mead has a somewhat larger shortage, about 8 trillion gallons, but it could be filled in about 370 days at 250,000 gallons/sec. Within a year and eight months of the aqueduct's finish, both reservoirs would be filled and most of the Southwest's water problems would be gone." https://www.desertsun.com/story/opin...ct/7751467001/

It could interfere with migration of rodents, kill worms, disrupt indigenous plants...

[volsrock]

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!

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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[Celticguy]

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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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.

See post 8!!

https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...64#post5231064

[ExpressLane]

Lake Mead has a somewhat larger shortage, about 8 trillion gallons, but it could be filled in about 370 days at 250,000 gallons/sec. Within a year and eight months of the aqueduct's finish, both reservoirs would be filled and most of the Southwest's water problems would be gone." https://www.desertsun.com/story/opin...ct/7751467001/

People should just move out of California and not steal other people's water.

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People should just move out of California and not steal other people's water.

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.

[ExpressLane]

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.

Most of LA would not be missed.