its being done in places as you say. oklahoma city gets water through under ground tunnels from miles and miles away. But (theres always one for some reason) the problem as i see it is that most of the water for the major river systems here comes from the midwest.Lakes here fill first,then it goes downstream.not the other way around.When we have too much,so do they.Barges on the mississippi for instance are being severly curtailed by the current drought up stream,and that carries a major percentage of our goods in the us. If you were to pump even more back upstream to be held it obviously would be even lower. The problem is not getting water,as you say it can be pumped or directed for miles.But the main problem as i see it is holding it till needed.IF it were pumped directly into an auquifer as you suggest,every drop would have to be treated somehow or you would risk polluting an entire auquifer that may stretch across several states making that area virtualy unihabitable.More to it than simply moving water from point a to point b in my opinion. Besides the initial cost of building the system there would be huge maintenance costs,and lets face it, our roads and bridges are falling apart now.A better solution in my opinion would be desalination plants along the coasts,and the redirecting of water that normaly goes there back to the midwest.Infrastructure would be shorter and less costly,maintenance costs should be less,etc. note: most of the southwest portion of the US was considered uninhabitable until early in the 1900's even the spanish settlements didnt extend much north of santa fe.The reason was water. as late as 1868 a military patrol in the region to the north and east of amarillo texas survived only by drinking the blood of their horses. even the buffalo and indians would desert the area for years. the simple fact remains after all this time that it still is a dry country at heart.learning to adapt to IT,instead of adapting it to OUR needs and wishes is the answer,not trying to make it something it isnt. the whole high plains region is in fact normaly dry.we can irrigate it at great costs,of course but that is quickly becoming unsustainable. as the current dry spell points out. we have proved for years we can make the desert bloom.but at what cost? heres a little fact for you,100% of the water on earth is still on earth,it never goes away. the problem is ,is it still usable?is it suited to the task and limitations we want to use it for? thats the rub ,we pollute it then we have to treat it.its a never ending cycle.the biggest problem now is we are polluting it faster than nature can recycle it.Could we do as you say? yes it could be done but the costs would far exceed all of the combined benefits put together.maybe we could flood and hold water in the whole great salt lake basin,every drop of that water never reaches the ocean now.and it would hold theoreticaly enough water. but we would lose several major cities,a major portion of the ground we were trying to use,and displace no telling how many people who would then be relying on already strained rescources in other areas. bottom line is its sort of a catch 22 deal.
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