The West is dry, and we didn't plan well. We need a system to move water from Midwest

Tell to build desalination plants. If Israel and Saudi Arabia can use them to survive in the ME then the ppl in SoCal can use them to survive in SoCal.

I’m sure all those fly fishing snobs would love Asian carp, gar and whatever else in their rivers.

Even if you pipeline it directly to treatment plants and such the margin for error is razor thin. One frick up and the ecology in that region could frick up quick.

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Tell to build desalination plants

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Only answer.

The other answer is "we want cheap water".

They have plenty of water. They choose not use it. Rain water in rivers and cities mostly flows freely into the ocean.

2019
Despite California’s long drought, trillions of gallons of rainwater wastefully flowing into sea.

In February alone, an estimated 18 trillion gallons of water fell on the state. In urban areas and coastal cities, 80 percent ends up diverted into the ocean, as Los Angeles and other cities built long concrete channels for flood control.

Why make freshwater when we could collect the water that falls from the sky? Even on the driest year in recorded history in 2013, it still rained 3.6 inches in Los Angeles. An inch of rainfall in L.A. generates 3.8 billion gallons of runoff, so you’re talking about more than 12 billion gallons of water that could be captured, but that flows within hours down our concrete streets and into the ocean. There’s enough rainwater to be harvested to produce 30-50% of the entire city’s water needs.

They stopped water projects over f'ing slugs, they deserve everything that happens to them.

THEY ARE ON THE FREAKING OCEAN

Then they need more. Naval ships have been making their own water for decades. Cali needs to build more desalination plants its really simple. Have the whole Pacific ocean right there

How about the west manages their goddamn water better?

They are dumping lots of usable freshwater out to sea because they delta smelt could be affected if the Central Valley were to use that water to grow crops.

Piping water out from the Midwest to the west won’t fix issues, it will just deplete the water in the Midwest.

How much water? How are you going to pay for it? Any meaningful amount is going to take massive investments in energy to run the pump stations to lift the water thousands of feet in elevation and overcome line loss. It isn't economical. Better to build reverse osmosis or nanofiltration plants for seawater. But the eco-nuts rejected that.