My grandfather told me an interesting story once. When he was a kid, he realized that the desert was, in fact, quite dry in the Southwest. He remembers asking his dad (who I was fortunate
enough to actually know a little as a kid) how all the new people moving in were going to get their water. My grandfather’s still sharp as a tack pushing 90 years old, but it seems he’s always been sharp, because that’s a hell of a question coming from a kid in the late 1930s.
None of these projects would work without the dams. There’s the Glen Canyon Dam, which allows Lake Powell to fill with water storage and the Hoover Dam that holds back Lake Mead. As you’ve probably heard, both of these reservoirs are drying up, withWhile it would be great to set up desalination plants along the coast and pump the water in massive pipes all over the Southwest, that’s a massive undertaking.
But like anything in politics, the seemingly impossible nature of the task doesn’t stop people from arguing over it. A recent letter to the editor of the. The letter’s author expresses dismay at the disapproval such a project has in the midwest and then goes on to say that California should just pump desalinated water from the ocean so the state doesn’t have to rely on the Midwest for anything.
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