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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
It seems to every year at this time we’re witnessing severe drought and devastating fires in California while torrential rains and flooding in the southern mid west. I see that we can move billions of gallons of oil from Canada to Texas and I wonder why we can’t move billions of gallons of water from flooded areas to drought impacted areas. I used to think this was absurd but the I thought about the oil pipeline. I’d bet that engineers exist that could do this.
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The Romans developed the technology in about 300 BC. But, I bet at least for California desalination and/or membrane filtration using inexpensive solar energy would be cheaper.