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Water
transfer flood plain waters by national pipeline to dams in drought areas. | |
Capture flood water from consistently flooded states and divert it by pipeline to holding dams in drought ridden states. Something like the defunct Alaska Pipeline.
(?) A similar idea baked - canals to be used for this purpose in the UK
http://www.the-time...timnwsnws01017.html
I haven't heard any more about this since the original story here was released, but it does sound promising; given that the pipelines are already in existence, it looks quite easy to put into operation. [vincebowdren, Aug 07 2000, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Self-Explanatory Idea Names
http://www.halfbake...tory_20idea_20names
Something this idea is NOT! [dgeiser13, Aug 07 2000, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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Garrison Keillor once unveiled a scheme for draining lake Superior into the Grand Canyon - not a bad idea, except it's mostly uphill - Texas might bite though. |
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The United States and Canada, which have a ludicrous proportion of the world's fresh water reserves (the Great Lakes alone make up 40 percent of the world's liquid fresh water), have few if any places that have a real water "surplus," ecologically-speaking. Canada has expressed a "death before water export" attitude, and the Great Lakes states are only somewhat less vehement. |
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In the world of today, there are only two amounts of fresh water: "too little" and "enough." |
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There's nothing wrong with this suggestion except that it's a) shockingly obvious, and b) horribly labelled. |
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and what about plain old desalinization ? |
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