Time for Army Corps of Engineers to investigate moving water West?
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#2Interesting no points on the ecology of what the water might bring to the West. I’m sure there some other concerns missing.
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#3Would reducing 5% of water from this point in Louisiana not also have a noticeable impact and that state's environment? I could see a significant legal battle here, much bigger than we've seen in cases where other states down stream feel as though they are wronged by states upstream. Louisiana will ask itself, "to what extent will we be forced to give water to the entire US Southwest?".
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#4Why don’t people just do things that use less water?
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#5Please stay away from our water. I want no part in helping California become more unsustainable.
ETA: to westerners- You have enough water to maintain first class lifestyles. Allocate/ration it better or cap population. Stop stealing from others.
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#6Why don’t people just do things that use less water?
Long and convoluted story. Mostly agriculture driven and not residential.
Cadallic desert is a good Book
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#7This seems like the correct thing to do. There was at one point in time a more popular push in India to “connect all the rivers”. I was too young to fully understand what that meant, and also it’s not always easy to know whether something that’s proposed is truly feasible.
But infrastructure to move water around your country especially when a large chunk is a desert makes perfect sense. I originally imagined this would mean somehow exploiting the Great Lakes but the argument suggested here seems quite practical.
Not saying wasteful agriculture on export crops shouldn’t be banned (it should) and perhaps people should stop having so many golf courses, but free flowing water is a true mark of advanced Civilization and it’s not unfair for a country to build the infra to guarantee it.
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Re: Time for Army Corps of Engineers to investigate moving water West?
#9This seems like the correct thing to do. There was at one point in time a more popular push in India to “connect all the rivers”. I was too young to fully understand what that meant, and also it’s not always easy to know whether something that’s proposed is truly feasible. But infrastructure to move water around your country especially when a large chunk is a desert makes perfect sense. I originally imagined this wou…
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#10If California hasn't lived within its means so far, why do we think that would change after giving them other regions' water?