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Filling Lake Mead with Mississippi River Water No Longer a Pipe Dream


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29 minutes ago, poopooforme said:

Its the fucking desert.  WTF do you think happens in the desert????  Why the fuck would you build big cities in the fucking desert and then make water my problem????  

Spend a lot of time on the Mississippi Delta do you?  This doesn't effect the Midwest at all. Not like that harebrained scheme of sticking a giant straw in Lake Michigan.

Not much different than building a city in a frigid siberian hellscape and having to import heating oil and gas.

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9 minutes ago, BOHICA said:

They could buy all the pipeline material at discount from the defunct keystone xl project

Nobody, I mean nobody, seen that coming from you 

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5 minutes ago, Skidooski said:

Nobody, I mean nobody, seen that coming from you 

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Probably 1200 miles of pipe just laying around from  that I completed project that could be put to use and the same out of work pipeliners could assemble it

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Not gonna happen.   Be cheaper to bring desalinized water over from the Pacific.  Could make a deal with Mexico bring it from the Gulf of California.   They get some water, we get water and no mountains to cross or at least much smaller ones.  Could feed Phoenix on the way by. 

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11 minutes ago, BOHICA said:

Probably 1200 miles of pipe just laying around from  that I completed project that could be put to use and the same out of work pipeliners could assemble it

Or….just finish the pipeline 

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8 minutes ago, Skidooski said:

Or….just finish the pipeline 

That won’t happen.  Would be better for TC to allocate and recover some cost byproviding materials into a project that is feasible and potentially able to see the light of day

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21 minutes ago, Highmark said:

Not gonna happen.   Be cheaper to bring desalinized water over from the Pacific.  Could make a deal with Mexico bring it from the Gulf of California.   They get some water, we get water and no mountains to cross or at least much smaller ones.  Could feed Phoenix on the way by. 

Just fill it with straight salt water and desalinized as needed for use?? Don't the say the oceans water levels are rising but fresh water lakes and streams are drying up?? Fill it with salt water........... rofl.png.7f288ba29fab520c1a65c8bf4aa4f225.png

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11 minutes ago, Jerry 976 said:

Just fill it with straight salt water and desalinized as needed for use?? Don't the say the oceans water levels are rising but fresh water lakes and streams are drying up?? Fill it with salt water........... rofl.png.7f288ba29fab520c1a65c8bf4aa4f225.png

I don't care what they do as long as they pay for it.   Get them water then every dry area in the country is going to expect it.   Its stupid. 

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9 minutes ago, steve from amherst said:

Desalination uses a shitload of energy. Would be cheaper to pump it west.

Pump fresh water cross country for people living in a desert? Let them fend for themselves. Have Vegas fund the desalinization. 

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6 minutes ago, Skidooski said:

Pump fresh water cross country for people living in a desert? Let them fend for themselves. Have Vegas fund the desalinization. 

You wouldn’t have to pump it that far.  Just to the Colorado River water shed/continental divide.  Gravity would take it from there.

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3 minutes ago, BOHICA said:

You wouldn’t have to pump it that far.  Just to the Colorado River water shed/continental divide.  Gravity would take it from there.

Why bother? Then more idiots will move to the desert until the Mississippi is dry. Then they’ll go after the Great Lakes. Let them figure it out

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3 minutes ago, Skidooski said:

Why bother? Then more idiots will move to the desert until the Mississippi is dry. Then they’ll go after the Great Lakes. Let them figure it out

Population will continually grow.  That means areas that have the water will get higher population density.  Imagine a bunch of Californians moving into you local cause the resources are all spoken for in there area.  Win win on shipping water that way.  

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1 minute ago, BOHICA said:

Population will continually grow.  That means areas that have the water will get higher population density.  Imagine a bunch of Californians moving into you local cause the resources are all spoken for in there area.  Win win on shipping water that way.  

We have plenty of fresh water here and that won’t change unless idiots make bad decisions. People in dry areas of the country need to figure out there own problems or move to where there is water

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4 hours ago, Matt said:

Spend a lot of time on the Mississippi Delta do you?  This doesn't effect the Midwest at all. Not like that harebrained scheme of sticking a giant straw in Lake Michigan.

Not much different than building a city in a frigid siberian hellscape and having to import heating oil and gas.

 

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We have plenty of fresh water here and that won’t change unless idiots make bad decisions. People in dry areas of the country need to figure out there own problems or move to where there is water

People are always scheming to steal our water.  :bigfinger:

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