• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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    43 months ago

    This does make me wonder how expensive it’d be to set up a trans continental irrigation system, basically just moving surplus water in places like the southeast or northwest to drought locations like in california or the southwest to take the pressure off of local water resources.

    • @Wav_function
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      163 months ago

      Trans? TRANS? Uh no thanks sweetie, you can keep your woke liberal water.

      • @theangryseal
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        93 months ago

        I’m so sick of this crap. I can’t even drive my TransAm any more. I’m gonna change the name on it to ManAm soon so sissies don’t complement me on my wokeness. Yuck.

    • @CitizenKong
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      3 months ago

      As soon as the water has to travel just a little bit uphill, the continuous energy needed makes it unfeasable.

      And that’s not even taking leakage into account.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 months ago

      It’s pretty much impossible. Houston gets more rain than Seattle most years, but it’s nearly impossible to pump that water up 500ft and 500 miles west to ranches in Texas. A pipeline from the Great Lakes or South East would have to pump water through the Rockies. They can’t even build pil and gas pipelines to connect the West Coast to the rest of country, which is worth infinitly more per gallon than water.

      On top of that, we have has abysmal rainfall this summer along the Great Lakes. I live on a river that flows into Lake Erie’s western basin and i have never seen the river this low. There are stretches of the rover where i can walk bank to bank without getting my feet wet right now.

    • FuglyDuck
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      33 months ago

      It’d be less expensive to move the farmers.