Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Data Center

Re:Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Dat... by AnimalMuppet on Friday November 21, 2014 @06:37PM (#8644039)

OK, first you said "Just dig a well", now you want to get the water from the river. But again, it may not be that simple.

Do you know how much water is in that river? It isn't all that large. Do you know how much of the water is already spoken for by various canals and city water treatment plants? Do you know whether any of the water in that river is actually available?

Same thing with the lake. The lake is the only supply of water to the river. You can't just pump a bunch of water out of the lake without cutting out the people downstream who need the water from the river.

This is Utah. It's a desert. Water's not a real plentiful commodity out here. It's precious and scarce. Most of the easy answers don't work. (If they did, somebody else would already be using the water from that source.)

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Re:Utah Considers Cutting Off Water to the NSA’s Monster Dat... by anigbrowl on Friday November 21, 2014 @09:28PM (#8644491)

I'm perfectly well aware that Utah is a desert, thanks. I also thought about who was using the water already; if I was the federal government I could, in a pinch, just eminent-domain the golf course that sits adjacent to the river in question. I would much prefer, of course, to have the Army Corps of Engineers

You can keep pretending that if this bill were to pass it would be a huge problem for the NSA and the feds, but the idea that the Utah government would be able to hold the facility hostage is a ridiculous pipe-dream.

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