California drought - potential for reducing effects?

[RT Atlanta]

This is as random as random can be, and I'm posting here only for discussion/thoughts.

Here it goes: with all the 'love' in the media about pipelines and their job building abilities, is it ecologically feasible to construct a giant fresh water pipeline that transports desalinated ocean water to the CA reservoirs - or even further inland - like to the CO river?

I realize and understand the costs would be big, but rather than transporting some level of refined oil of large chunks of land, might it make sense to consider fresh water?

In the mean time, I will continue to send positive thoughts to the folks in the West living with this drought. Wish I could send you some of this week's rains from Atlanta!

[KamaAina]

1. Engineers already hasve a plan to get some desalinated water into the Central Valley

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026409871#post18

[daleanime]

2. Before doing some thing like that.....

there's a ton of more practical thing that need to be done. Like stop bottling water, change farming practices, etc...

[zappaman]

4. And stop it with the fucking frigging fracking!

[daleanime]

5. Hell yes....

[Travis_0004]

3. I would be way too expensive.

Short distances are fine but pumping hundreds of miles is not possible.

Water is heavier and oil, so it takes more energy to pump, and we use more of it than oil so pipes must be larger.