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Sending water to Cali from anywhere.....be it Lake Michigan, the Columbia, or the Mississippi is akin to feeding meth to junior high school children.

Once Cali gets a taste of OUR water, they will never get enough to satisfy them.

California State Government went to great lengths to draw people to the state. The powers that be and the developers banked $Billions. With never a thought that the growing population was rapidly outpacing their resources.

Read the history of Salton Sea. Same story, just a bit smaller. Developers got rich. Joe six pack was left holding the bag. And there was no cash left in the bag.

Water rights law has been established in this nation for a long-long time. Small wars have been fought and quite a bit of blood spilled over water. Let's not revisit those issues.

If Cali dries up and blows away, so be it. People will go bankrupt and move on. Just like my grandparents did from Oklahoma during the dust-bowl. The Earth will keep spinning, and life will go on.


A question?

I have read that Vegas has the lowest elevation water tap in Lake Mead. Sp Vegas has the physical ability to take water after dead pool level is reached and no more water is able to go downstream.

But do they have the oldest LEGAL water-rights?

Whoever has the rights might be able to pump the dead pool over the hump and get a bit more from it. I would think they'd have to filter out a lot of fish in the process.

Cali pulled it off in the Owens Valley, probably think they can do it again somewhere else.
$400 billion in the "Inflation Reduction Act" for Colorado River drought relief.
You could buy a lot of farms in CA and AZ and fallow them until the drought subsides. But they will eat up most of it in "administrative costs".
Colorado River Drought Relief

Do you see anywhere in my statement that I said they'd get it right?

I dont see such a project passing environmental review. I alsondont see States wanting to give the southwest a drop of water.

This very type of project has been done on a small scale where I live. The local water district we have in a mountain valley has basically unlimited water for our small population but in their infinite wisdom put an EPA certified water plant at the bottom of the drainage and pumps water uphill for 20 miles in lieu of using the old water facility at the head of the canyon. Instead of using gravity they installed pumping stations. Real geniuses working on that one and this is in an area of near unlimited water resources.