The only way desalination would work is to build a canal from the ocean to the Salton Sea, flood the Salton Sea, and then you can build huge desalination plants that can pump directly in to already existing aqueducts.
Trying to understand this.
Salton Sea is 240 feet below sea level.
Banning Pass is over 2500 feet above sea level.
Water from the Colorado aqueduct is over 1500' high at the Mecca or White Water tunnels to flow into Lake Mathews and beyond.
So water desalinated at Salton Sea is going to have to be pumped about 2000 feet up to flow in the existing Aqueduct.
So how is it cheaper than water directly from the ocean when So Cal's inland valleys are only about the 1000 foot elevation level?
