Desperate Lawmakers Discuss Piping Ocean Water to Fill Great Salt Lake
Alegislative commission in Utah has given the green light to study several strategies to help with the worryingly low levels of water in the Great Salt Lake—including potentially building a pipeline to carry water over land from the Pacific Ocean. The study to determine “the feasibility and cost of piping water from the ocean to help fill the Great Salt Lake” was approved as part of a master list of other initiatives during a session of the state’s Legislative Water Development Commission held Tuesday.
“There’s a lot of water in the ocean, and we have very little in the Great Salt Lake,” Sen. David Hinkins (R), the commission’s co-chair, said during the meeting. That is… true!
The potential pipeline would have a pretty arduous journey. The Great Salt Lake is, as the crow flies, some 600 miles away from the Pacific Coast. Any possible pipeline would almost certainly have to cross the Sierra Nevada mountains, as well as pass through both California and Nevada before getting to the lake. Lawmakers in the session acknowledged that the plan’s cost could be in the billions.
“It’s just an idea,” Hinkins told Fox 13. “Other countries are doing it to fill their lakes because of the drought situations. We ought to know if there’s a feasibility or even if we’ll get right of ways for that sort of stuff, but get an idea of how much it’ll cost.” (A plan to fill the rapidly shrinking Dead Sea with a canal to the Red Sea, some 800 miles [1,290 kilometers] away, was abandoned in 2021 after years of delays and international tensions; that project would have cost anywhere between $2 billion and $10 billion.)
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plant down by the Sea of Cortez....
That IS funny! 
Az and the Sea of Cortez...why not?
