Reservoirs in the American southwest and mountain west are already running low as summer approaches. This is going to be a brutal water year from Colorado to California. Lakes Mead and Powell may need to suck the upriver reservoirs increasingly dry in order to keep the remains of the Colorado River flowing. We need that Great Lakes pipeline as soon as possible.
>>534599257Not my problem unless you want to buy fresh water.
>>53459925770% of earth is water. just fucking desalinate you retards
Maybe we shouldn't be trying to grow water-intensive crops in a fucking desert. And building huge cities there for no fucking reason. And building data centers that use huge amounts of water for some reason in them.
You can move away from the desert any time
>>534599338desalination is too expensive. not for the average home, but for agriculture and industry, it's not viable economically.
>>534599338Desalination is too expensive, too slow, produces too little volume of fresh water relative to needs, and is also mostly illegal along the California coast due to environmental concerns over the discharge of heavy saline sludge and desal waste products back into the ocean. The Great Lakes option makes the most sense for now because it can be done with existing established technologies like pipelines and nuclear power plants to power the pumps to get the water across the continental divide. Longer term, we'd want to look at engineering new river routes from northern Canada or even mining the Greenland ice cap and using a conga line of bulk cargo tankers to haul the ice into the Great Lakes system.Each load would be relatively small, but if 15 to 20 full loads of Greenland ice could be delivered per day for a few years, it would secure the North American fresh water system for generations.
>>534599450The data centers and semiconductor fabrication plants in Arizona are already well into the construction phase, and it is too late to move them. It is a matter of national security to have a steady fresh water supply into the southwest, even if everyone but workers moved out.
>>534599536>California has made doing the sensible thing illegal.Wow every fucking time.I hate my state, any dumbass who thinks "Oh I am gonna vote Democrats because the GOP isn't doing enough right now".20 years of Democrat control is how you get a state as fucked up as California.I would rather die than ever vote Democrat on a fucking ballot, and you should feel the same.
>>534599257It rains 90% of the yearly total in summer over the south west it's called the Arizona monsoon.I knew Americans were bad at geography but you should at least know your own country and its nuances.
>>534600062That's not the issue. The current problem is reservoir surface elevation level, which is quite low for this point in the year. The 'water year' in the US begins and ends at October 1st, with the general pattern of snowpacks and reservoir levels rising to their maximums over the winter, then gradually decreasing throughout the rest of the year until the next winter arrives.
>>534599338Desal + nuclear power is the move
>>534599536>Longer term, we'd want to look at engineering new river routes from northern Canada or even mining the Greenland ice cap and using a conga line of bulk cargo tankers to haul the ice into the Great Lakes system.Dude by the time any of that is remotely feasible, the southwest is going to be too hot to live in unless you become a nocturnal society that operates when the sun is down. Water shortages are only the beginning of what's coming for you.
>>534599594>>534599257>we need to rape a healthy ecosystem to maintain our unsustainable desert cities! Think of the spic niggers and datacenters!No, I won't, 100% chance if they pipeline ever happens(it won't) it would face DAILY sabotage.
>>534599257Eat a dick desert kike. Michigan water belongs to native Wolverines>>534599459Fuck off we’re full.
>>534601311Most pipeline proposals send the first leg of the system through Illinois, where the Pritzker family runs the state with an iron grip, and would not allow any sabotage.
>>534600150Blah blah blah.
>>534599594Suck a nutsack bitch. And keep the mitten out of your vocabulary.
>>534599459Its fucking free if you use the death valley which is below sea level.Produce power with water flow to desert. Desert sun evaporates water (free brine)Water vapor piped up mountains to condenser.Produce power as water flows down to city.
>>534599257>Water levels are shit out west>Drinking water in the middle is becoming more toxic>Economy is in a bubble>Farmers aren't planting because it's not economical to with tariffs and hormuz issuesGreat Depression 2.0 incoming
>>534599257Glad I live in the Washington. Mt. Rainier alone has like 25 glaciers that feed all the rivers in the area and then there is all the rain that comes in from the ocean that saturates Western Washington.
