re: Water experts debate 1,500-mile aqueduct from Cajun Country to Lake Powell

I thought about this exact thing last year when we drove around Mead and Powell. I'm just an IT guy from Baton Rouge but even I thought about it.

But I suppose if the wetlands and gulf coast do in fact need that water, It'll never happen.

You would think they would have glossed over that at least once. They do t care. They are locusts

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But I suppose if the wetlands and gulf coast do in fact need that water, It'll never happen.

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Louisiana can have the sediment. Give those poor westerners a little water man! Most of the Mississippi water goes into the GOM. There's plenty of water you rubes!

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They need to start drinking the water left over after sewage is treated. They’ll never run out of drinking water that way.

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Aren't they already using a "gray water" system? If not that's a no-brainer.

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Secondarily, there would need to be a good bit of corrosion inhibitors injected into this water as well as biocides to prevent corrosion of these pipes. Unless they make them of concrete.

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Hdpe and c900 pvc baw. It’s what most new water lines are made of only use steel for casing for road or railroad crossings. But those are petroleum based products so they’d probably have an issue with that.

Being familiar with that area. The ORCS is supposed to / does pull like a certain % off the MS River diverts it across through the canal and dumps it into the Red River/ Atchafalaya. I am pretty sure that’s the water they are talking about. That would have a catastrophic impact on the Atchafalaya Basin. Tell them to frick off.

If you want to go down a rabbit hole look into what happens when/ if the ORCS fails. Lots of experts predict it will fail.

It would probably cost less to develop large scale desalination plants in the Pacific.

That should be the focus. All the water anyone needs, someone just needs to figure out how to do it quickly and cost effectively.

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Two hundred miles north of New Orleans, in the heart of swampy Cajun Country

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Yeah. So roughly Vicksburg, MS is apparently the head of swampy Cajun Country.

Eventually....

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Yes but if they force someone else to burn fossil fuels to supply their needs and doesn’t require them to do so directly, the CO2 doesn’t count.

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Saskatchewan, Canaderp has recently given us an example of just what you're talking about.

They've announced a plan to phase out coal-fired power production in favor of wind and solar. They've admitted going into this plan that wind and solar will come nowhere near providing enough electricity to meet their needs. That's okay, though, because they have a plan. To offset their energy deficit they have contracted with an Amercian company across the border to pay them 52 million dollars a year for electricity. How is that American electricity that they will be reliant upon to meet their energy needs produced you ask? Great question! Well, at least 50% of that electricity that is produced across the border in America is produced by coal-fired power plants.

Imagine that! They've chosen to gut their traditional power production industry in favor of alternatives that are, admittedly, woefully incapable of meeting their needs. That will cost Canadian jobs and ultimately make them reliant upon another country for electricity produced by those same traditional methods they're looking to "phase out", thus not actually helping the environment while potentially significantly raising energy costs for their citizens.

That's a right fricking genius plan they've come up with!