Unkotare
Diamond Member
- Aug 16, 2011
- 136,325
- 28,245
- 2,180
Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
While I do agree it is especially dumb to think we can change the climate, it is just as foolish to compare hydrocarbons to water.We pipe oil all over the nation... if we can do that we can pump water out west.... the dumb thing is thinking we have the power to change the climate....
There are dams and reservoirs all over the world... we are part of the eco system too and if we need water for crops out west we need to make it happen not just sit back and complain and pass stupid laws that only make us poorer....While I do agree it is especially dumb to think we can change the climate, it is just as foolish to compare hydrocarbons to water.
Water is a critical, ecological resource, that maintains ecosystems. If you mess with it on a huge scale, you will dramatically alter ecosystems. If you are not aware of this, study what the environment of that area looked like before they built the Hoover Damn. Or, better yet, look into what happened when they built the Three Gorges Damn.
If you even try to take large amounts of water from Texas or the Mid-West, you will dramatically alter those ecosystems, just to try to stave off the inevitable in an area whose climate is changing because of population and economic stress on resource use, and a changing climate.
![]()
There is no such thing as a "hydrocarbon cycle," you either use them, or you don't. OTH, if you start moving large amounts of water around the planet? You are messing with the very forces of nature, and, like a wrote, destroying entire ecological niches. Deplete aquafers in one area of the nation? Farmers will suffer, and the planet may starve. Drain the Great Lakes basin, you may cause climat upset, weather change, a lower of lake levels, and tourism impacts in another part of the nation. . . . it all has ripple affects.
There have been laws passed in various places, that won't even allow what you have proposed. And when the Federal Government has tried to get involved, it has even gone to Federal Courts before, and has been held, that diversion of water destroys said ecosystems and unconstitutionally deprives citizens of their property values and rights.
![]()
GREAT LAKES—ST. LAWRENCE RIVER BASIN WATER RESOURCES
COMPACT
Wayback Machine
web.archive.org
![]()
Great Lakes Compact - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
And there are dams and reservoirs all over California.There are dams and reservoirs all over the world... we are part of the eco system too and if we need water for crops out west we need to make it happen not just sit back and complain and pass stupid laws that only make us poorer....
Texas gets so much water that they flood every summer... more retainment is a plus for Texas and CA and AZ....
Lakes reservoirs and pipelines..... It can be done... I don't think its a dumb idea at all....
There aren't enough... Very smart people have been calling for a doubling of reservoirs in CA for years.... To watch all the rain and snow melt flow into the ocean and not try to collect it is a sin....And there are dams and reservoirs all over California
It doesn't matter how many you have, if the government and regulatory agencies are purposely emptying them.There aren't enough... Very smart people have been calling for a doubling of reservoirs in CA for years.... To watch all the rain and snow melt flow into the ocean and not try to collect it is a sin....