[HN Gopher] How an engineer looks at the idea of pumping water f...
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       How an engineer looks at the idea of pumping water from Mississippi
       to the West
        
       Author : jerryjerryjerry
       Score  : 6 points
       Date   : 2022-07-25 21:00 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.desertsun.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.desertsun.com)
        
       | tomohawk wrote:
       | How an economist might look at it: tax the hell out of living in
       | the desert. Los Angeles, Los Vegas, and other locales are in a
       | desert. Living there is not sustainable. Look at how California
       | has already been terraformed to supply water to Los Angeles.
       | Enough already.
        
         | gpapilion wrote:
         | California was terraformed to support logging and mining
         | operations. Now it supports agriculture with a much smaller
         | percentage supporting cities.
        
         | booi wrote:
         | As long as property values increase faster than the desert tax,
         | this might not work
        
       | bell-cot wrote:
       | At least it's talking about the Mississippi. Vs. such stories
       | often feature the Great Lakes - so a longer & more expensive
       | pipe, reaching to a source with less water available.
       | 
       | And it sounds like the guy's a sane engineer, so he quickly
       | concludes "it's a pipe dream" without needing to get into a bunch
       | of weedy details.
        
         | kabirgoel wrote:
         | A pipe dream, or a dream pipe? :)
        
       | pasttense01 wrote:
       | When you open the article and it opens to a subscription page the
       | solution is to just open it in private browser mode.
        
       | nathanaldensr wrote:
       | It ain't happening, folks. Better start the mass migration now
       | before it's too late (assuming insane water use policies continue
       | as they have).
        
         | unstatusthequo wrote:
         | Well, they wanted to build an oil pipeline across the country.
         | That nearly happened. Guess we understand what's more valuable
         | to the lobbyists.
        
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