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Re:Why Is Desalination So Difficult? by rs999gti on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @07:44PM (#36608860)
There are no water pipes from the coast to the central valley?

I wonder if NIMBYism blocked that?

And if an agency wanted to transport water like the USA national oil pipeline system, would they be blocked similarly?

Re:Why Is Desalination So Difficult? by function_seven on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:13PM (#36609120)
There are aqueducts between the CV and coastal areas. The water goes the other direction.

If desalination becomes widespread, I imagine the water not shipped to the coast could remain in the Central Valley. I don’t know one way or another if this would make political or economic sense.

EDIT: Wikipedia has a good overview: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_in_California

Re:Why Is Desalination So Difficult? by frumper on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @08:42PM (#36609389)
Water rights are so complicated that they’d probably sell the water to the Central Valley before it ships to them. I think it very unlikely that they’d give them up.
Re:Why Is Desalination So Difficult? by pjc50 on Thursday July 06, 2023 @04:26AM (#36612915)
There's no way the water would be affordable for agriculture if it had to pay for pumping it uphill/inland. There's a reason the rivers flow in the other direction.