What would California do for some of that melting snow

[malaise]

in Buffalo.

Stay safe folks in the path of tornadoes in the south .

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Now, there's a pipeline you wouldn't fight.

[malaise]

3. 100% correct

pity they don't have 'energy' for that one.

[logosoco]

5. That's what i was thinking the other day! nt

[Travis_0004]

10. Way too expensive and it would never work.

[TreasonousBastard]

11. Of course-- now. But who knows from the future

[Travis_0004]

13. we have a treaty with canada

We can not pump water out of the great lakes basin without canadian approval. Also you would destroy the great lakes. The levels are already down, so we should nkt be pumping water out of the great lakes.

[TreasonousBastard]

16. That's true for now, but if...

the Ogallala dries up and it stops snowing in the Rockies-- all bets are off.

You don't really think our cities and farmers without water would care about a treaty, do you?

[TexasProgresive]

2. What the west really needs is massive snowfalls in the mountains

[malaise]

4. That would work but Buffalo has way more than

they need and it's putting them in danger

[TexasProgresive]

7. I was looking long term since the mountain snows are what fill the reservoirs

Any water would be welcomed.

[Cleita]

6. I thought about that yesterday.

If only they could load that snow into waterproof box cars and ship it to us cross country. When it got to California, melted of course, it could be emptied into our reservoirs.

[ChazII]

15. Star Trek technology would be handy. They beam

up whales in the fourth movie. Wouldn't it be great if we could just beam the snow the the California mountains? Let it slowly melt and empty into the reservoirs.

[hedgehog]

8. The massive snowfalls in Buffalo stay in the Great Lakes Watershed -

any diversion would cause massive devastation (not to mention, War with Canada.)

The waters of the Great Lakes are, for the most part, a nonrenewable resource. They are composed of numerous aquifers (groundwater) that have filled with water over the centuries, waters that flow in the tributaries of the Great Lakes, and waters that fill the lakes themselves. Although the total volume in the lakes is vast, on average less than 1 percent of the waters of the Great Lakes is renewed annually by precipitation, surface water runoff, and inflow from groundwater sources.
http://www.watershedcouncil.org/water%20resources/great%20lakes/threats-to-the-great-lakes/great-lakes-water-use-and-diversion/

[malaise]

9. I hear you loud and clear

[kelliekat44]

12. How about building a pipe line to re-direct water to areas of drought throughout the nation instead

of Keystone? This could lead to many more permanent and good paying jobs than Keystone...and have greater benefit to country.

[Travis_0004]

14. because the destruction would be far worse than keystone. see post 8.

[hedgehog]

17. What we really need is to develop technology to use solar/wind to operate desalinization plants -

and in the meantime; educate people that most of the country does not get enough rainfall to sustain a lawn appropriate for a manor in England.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/brainwaves/2013/07/29/outgrowing-the-traditional-grass-lawn/