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Re:Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California an... by s0rce on Thursday June 30, 2022 @03:56PM (#31937747)
Not really much different than pumping Owen's valley water to LA...
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Re:Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California an... by nomel on Thursday June 30, 2022 @04:03PM (#31937843)
A quick google search says Owen's valley is at 4k feet, while LA is at 300. I assume that reversing that would be incredibly expensive, considering the 570,000 acre-feet/year that flows is 1.5 trillion lbs of water.

So, I think it depends on where it's being pumped from/to.

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Re:Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California an... by s0rce on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:06PM (#31939843)
There are mountains in the way though.
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Re:Extreme heat, drought will permanently scar California an... by yellowapple on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:59PM (#31940339)
We'll just use the same boring machines we'd use for the long-overdue SF/NY Burrito Pipeline.
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