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Re:Epic Drought in West Is Literally Moving Mountains by tomjen3 on Friday August 22, 2014 @04:17PM (#8213745)
They dug a channel through Panama by hand. We humans are pretty good at engineering.
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Re:Epic Drought in West Is Literally Moving Mountains by jthol on Friday August 22, 2014 @09:58PM (#8214762)
The panama canal is 50 miles wide and has an elevation change of 85 feet. Construction took 10 years.

It would be vastly more efficient to have a pipe line which would still be ludicrous.

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