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In reply to the discussion: If things get so bad that Calexit becomes a serious option, is water CA's biggest vulnerability? [View all]Hekate
(90,189 posts)25. Desal will happen, of necessity, but it is very expensive. Also, most people don't understand....
....that California is very very big, and mountainous, and most of the inland part is away from the coast over quite rugged mountains and very very dry.
So any water generated along the coasts would be worth its weight in gold by the time it got piped to the Central Valley and the Inland Empire and so on. Blasting tunnels thru mountains, building pipelines, and on and on do not come cheap.
The entire modern history of California has been shaped by Water and how to move it around.
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If things get so bad that Calexit becomes a serious option, is water CA's biggest vulnerability? [View all]
Silent3
Jan 2017
OP
Desal will happen, of necessity, but it is very expensive. Also, most people don't understand....
Hekate
Jan 2017
#25
The water pulled from the Colorado is done at Parker Dam, at the south end of Lake Havasu
A HERETIC I AM
Jan 2017
#3
There will be no Calexit. It's literally stupid to talk about it except to say Russia is behind it.
KittyWampus
Jan 2017
#4
California alone has a population that equals Canada's population. "Build a pipeline" is not a plan.
Hekate
Jan 2017
#14